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2024-02-14 Britain
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Ditching controversial candidate, Starmer says UK Labour ‘changed’ on antisemitism
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[IsraelTimes] Opposition leader says decision to withdraw support from Azhar Ali, who claimed Israel deliberately allowed Oct. 7 onslaught, proves he meant what he said when he pledged reform.
Britannia’s Labour leader Keir Starmer insisted Tuesday the main opposition party has "changed" since it was plagued by antisemitism, hours after it withdrew support for a parliamentary candidate who made contentious remarks about Israel.
Azhar Ali was Labour’s candidate for a February 29 by-election in Rochdale, northwest England, following the death last month of sitting MP Tony Lloyd.
But a recording emerged over the weekend of him at a meeting of the local Labour party, in which he suggested that Israel deliberately allowed Hamas
 ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
to attack on October 7 in order to justify invading Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
After initially standing by his candidacy following an apology, Labour announced late Monday that it would no longer back Ali’s bid to become an MP after "new information about further comments" emerged.
The party cannot now replace Ali as the nominations have closed. He will not sit as a Labour politician if still elected later this month.
Fascinating. "Further information came to light yesterday calling for decisive action, so I took decisive action," Starmer told news hounds Tuesday, as he visited another constituency where a by-election will be held Thursday.
"It is a huge thing to withdraw support for a Labour candidate during the course of a by-election."
"It’s a tough decision, a necessary decision, but when I say the Labour Party has changed under my leadership, I mean it."
Starmer has made tackling antisemitism within Labour’s ranks a key mission since he became its leader nearly four years ago.
The party, now on course to win a general election due later this year, saw a spate of incidents under former left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn.
A landmark October 2020 report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission ruled that Labour under Corbyn had broken the law in its "inexcusable" handling of complaints.
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