A London plumber who refused to serve “Zionists” claims he was unwittingly involved in an Isis terror plot which saw his brother imprisoned and believes it is “legitimate” for Israeli soldiers to be killed, the JC can reveal.

Adam Loxley, 37, who emerged sporting a long beard and an Islamic robe when tracked down by this newspaper to an address in Walthamstow, was arrested in 2015 after he was sent by an Islamic State fundraiser to collect a donation for the terror group.

Loxley, also known as Omar Abdullah Bal, denies he knew the errand was linked to Isis and was later released without charge.

But when questioned about his views this week, Loxley doubled down, justifying his decision not to serve “Zionists” by claiming he was afraid of getting into a disagreement about his anti-Zionist views.

He also defended Hamas, denied that mass rapes were committed on October 7 and insisted that Palestinians had the “right to resist”.

“In the West Bank and Gaza, I believe it’s legitimate that you can kill soldiers,” he said.

Plumber Adam Loxley, who denied that mass rapes were committed on October 7 (Photo: Karl Black)

Loxley, who was exposed last week by this newspaper for vetting customers on their degree of allegiance to the Jewish state, also claimed that Israel was acting like Nazi Germany. “I feel that [the Holocaust] has been hijacked in some senses to justify what’s in essence colonialism,” he said.

In 2015, Loxley was directed by his electrician brother, Hassan Bal, to pick up what Hassan believed to be £1,000 in cash earmarked for Isis. In reality, it was an A to Z map of London that an undercover Mail on Sunday journalist had dropped off.

Adam Loxley (Photo: Karl Black)

When Loxley arrived to collect it, he was photographed by the newspaper and reported to counter-terror police. In 2018, his brother was jailed for two-and-a-half years at Waterford Circuit Court after he pleaded guilty at the Irish court to two charges of providing and attempting to provide funding for Isis.

Loxley told the JC that he had been asked to pick up the money by his brother and that he was unaware of any links to Isis.

The brothers were raised in the UK and Ireland by a Turkish father, who was a strict Muslim, and an English mother of Irish descent. After their father moved back to the UK from Ireland, Hassan embraced extremism.

Loxley as seen in the Gas Safe Register

Months before he sent Loxley to pick up the supposed Isis donation, he attempted to travel to Syria and was stopped at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport.

Loxley said he did not know at the time that his brother had tried to join Isis, and that he had volunteered to pick up the donation because he trusted him. “I believed the money was going to a charitable cause,” he said.

“Something seemed a little bit strange and a little bit funny. But you know, if something is coming from someone you’ve known for a long time and someone you trust you tend to [think], ‘OK, it’s a little bit strange but OK I’m here now anyway.’”

There was outrage this week when the JC revealed that Loxley had refused to work for a Jewish customer because she opposed the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

When the woman contacted AWG Plumbing and Heating, of which Loxley is the sole director, he texted her: “I won’t be able to provide you any services as we’re trying to VET all of our customers in the present climate and it appears that you opposed the BDS movement and give cover to the state of Israel as you a part [sic] of the lawmakers in this country.

“So for this reason, we can no longer offer our services and would therefore no longer like to be contacted.”

The Jewish woman said she was “extremely shocked and upset”. Speaking at his home this week, Loxley said he was worried he would be criminalised if he expressed his anti-Zionist views to a customer.

“I could be talking to you normally then I get a knock on my door – ‘He was aggressive,’” he said. “Or, ‘He was talking to me, he was antisemitic to me.’”

AWG Plumbing and Heating was referred by legal advocacy group UK Lawyers for Israel to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.

After emphasising that he does not support Hamas and considers them to be a terror group, Loxley defended his view that Palestinians do have the “right to resist” the IDF because it is protected by “the UN charter” that covers “any occupied people”.

He said: “You come in, you kill whoever’s in that house, you keep coming in and oppressing people, what’s going to be the outcome of that?”

He added that the allegations of rape on October 7 were made up to justify Israeli war crimes, just as Hitler demonised the Jews. “If you look at Nazism, if you look at Germany in 1930 and 1935, 1936. If you look at how the Jews are portrayed it was a case of, ‘They do this, they do that, they’ve done this in society.’​

“It’s a case of they were a demonised people because what you do before you start committing genocide you demonise a people. It’s a case of, normal people think to themselves, ‘Oh wait, hold on a minute, those are bad people’...

“I feel that if you look at, for example, a lot of the propaganda that was put out and not questioned, now we can do anything we want to the Palestinian people.”​