UK Lawmaker Compares Grey Squirrels To Hamas

The Daily Beast reports:

A British lawmaker was criticized after bizarrely likening gray squirrels to Hamas during a debate Tuesday. Jim Shannon, a member of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, spoke in Westminster about a debate over controlling the U.K.’s gray squirrel population. After praising a local group working to protect red squirrels in his constituency, Shannon said: “Gray squirrels are the Hamas of the squirrel world.”

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Watch as the DUP’s Jim Shannon labels grey squirrels “the Hamas of the squirrel world” in a debate earlier today… pic.twitter.com/xP0K7Ts2FX

— Ben Bloch (@realBenBloch) November 28, 2023

“Grey squirrels are the Hamas of the squirrel world,” said DUP MP Jim Shannon during a Westminster debate on the animals.

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— Belfast Telegraph (@BelTel) November 28, 2023

Grey squirrels have been labelled the “Hamas of the squirrel world” by the DUP’s Jim Shannonhttps://t.co/DsCBsMqc4n

— The Irish News (@irish_news) November 28, 2023