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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on October 19, 2026, 02:31:11 PM
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Mother referred to Prevent for 'over-identifying with Israel'
Holly Passmore says police asked why she was interested in 'Jewish issues' and described the postgraduate student as 'vulnerable'
When Holly Passmore heard a knock at her front door at about 11am on July 4 last year, she assumed it was an Amazon delivery.
Instead, the 44-year-old mother-of-two from County Durham found two plain-clothes police officers on her doorstep wanting to know why she had recently visited Israel.
"They said it was a safeguarding matter," recalled Ms Passmore, who cares for her nine-year-old son, Rex, who has severe autism, while studying for a master's degree.
She assumed they were concerned she had taken her son into a war zone.
"I said, 'Well, my son didn't go to Israel. He stayed here with my mum and my daughter, who's 20'," she recalled. But the female officer replied: "No this is about you -- because you may be at risk of manipulation."
Ms Passmore suspected her support for Israel had prompted the referral. It was only months later, when she obtained police records through a subject access request, that her suspicions were confirmed.
A police intelligence report seen by The Telegraph reveals that the referral said she "over-identified with the conflict between Israel and Palestine" and was "supportive of Israel to the point that she has travelled to Israel".
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/17/mother-referred-prevent-over-identifying-israel/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_tw_post_referred-prevent-over-identifying-israel/