British Israel lobbyist Heidi Bachram is one of the UK’s most unhinged Israel fanatics — and that’s a very, very tough field to beat. She’s also one of the most shameless — although among stiff competition.

Ms B has considerable form. She marked the new year by claiming pictures of a Palestinian doctor abducted by Israel are a threat to Jewish people. Along with the Israel lobby group ‘CAA’ (so-called ‘Campaign against Antisemitism’), she suffered a humiliating setback in court in December 2025.

A judge got sick of the misleading case presented by CAA for Bachram in an attempted private prosecution of Black comedian Reginald D Hunter — Bachram had claimed he sent her antisemitic messages and nude pictures. So sick, in fact, that he not only threw the case out but ordered CAA to attach a copy of his dynamite ruling to any future cases.

Bachram, a non-Jewish Zionist

Despite her devotion to Israel, Bachram is not Jewish. However, as you might guess from what’s already noted above, she is quite unafraid to attack actual Jews if they inconvenience her pro-Israel narrative. So it is very appalling, but not remotely surprising, to find that she was prepared to target Jewish Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos in her latest attempt to smear those who protest against Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians.

Bachram tweeted a picture of Kapos, a candid one apparently taken during a moment of reflection on the terrible toll in deaths and suffering that Israel has inflicted on its innocent victims. In the image, a moved Kapos clutches a simple, black-and-white ‘keffiyeh’ scarf, which is full of symbolism of Palestinian endurance, freedom and attachment to their land.

Devoid of any respect for the symbol, or for the octagenarian Holocaust survivor holding it, Bachram couldn’t resist using the moving image to try to attack the anti-genocide movement that has adopted the keffiyeh as a marker of solidarity with the Palestinians in their freedom struggle:

Solidarity is a cult she says

Bachram is even sufficiently lacking in self-awareness to claim that the image showed that support for Palestine is a “cult”. This is deeply ironic given the way in which Zionists (falsely and antisemitically) claim Israel is intrinsic to Jewish identity and therefore any criticism of Israel is an attack on Jews. Even more so when Mr Kapos is Jewish — no doubt a driver for targeting him, since his existence, and that of the many anti-Zionist Jews, exposes the lie.

The markers of a cult, according to experts, include:

• zero tolerance for questions or criticism;
• a fear-based narrative about the outside world;
• an ‘us v them’ mentality
• jargon and identity-masking;
• lack of transparency;
• extreme devotion from members; and
• abuse and exploitation.

Of course, the cult in the Bachram scenario is Zionism. But Zionists have never been afraid of hypocrisy. So much so that even as it slaughters, Israel is always the victim — and Israel’s fictitious accusations routinely reflect its own atrocities, especially when it comes to torturing prisoners and murdering children.

Hence the saying that when it comes to Israel, “Every accusation is a confession”. And not just Israel, but clearly its supporters too, as Heidi Bachram has again illustrated.

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