The judge who ruled that the Palestinian family of six should be allowed to settle in Britain is the son of a veteran Left-wing journalist who has been highly critical of Israel.
Hugo Norton-Taylor’s father Richard was a Guardian reporter who specialised in defence and security.
Now 80, he writes for investigative website Declassified UK which has accused the BBC of ignoring the UK Government’s support for ‘Israel’s brutal war on Gaza’.
After Hamas’s October 7 massacre, Richard Norton-Taylor wrote an article attacking both Israel and the UK.
He said: ‘The UN secretary general was vilified in Israel for saying, after criticising Hamas’ horrific onslaught that left 1,400 people dead, that it was important to recognise the massacre on 7 October did not take place in a “vacuum”.
‘He said the Palestinian people had been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. Antonio Guterres was right.
‘And that vacuum was left by Britain when it abruptly terminated its mandate for Palestine in 1948.’
