Faiza Shaheen dropped by Labour for liking pro-BDS, Corbyn and Green Party posts
Faiza Shaheen dropped by Labour for liking pro-BDS, Corbyn and Green Party posts
Left-wing candidate deselected for 15 posts between 2014 and 2024 on issues from Islamophobia to Israeli lobbying, MEE has been informed
The UK's Labour Party deselected Faiza Shaheen as a candidate for the marginal London seat of Chingford and Woodford Green over a series of social media posts which expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), praised former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and backed candidates running for the Green Party, among other issues, Middle East Eye has been told.
According to the earliest post, a now-deleted tweet from 25 March 2014, Shaheen liked an announcement from environmental economist Griffin Carpenter that he was deciding to stand as a Green Party candidate for Hackney Council.
A second was from 3 August 2014, during Israel's six-week war on the Gaza Strip, where an X user calling himself Rod Dixon shared a message in support of boycotting Israeli goods, and argued that the tactic worked against apartheid South Africa.
One of the more recent posts she liked, and which was flagged by the NEC, was from 12 May 2024, where Philip Lemoine, a PhD candidate and writer at the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI), said: "Every time you say something even mildly critical of Israel, you're immediately assailed by scores of hysterical people who explain to you why you're completely wrong, how you’re biased against Israel.
I read this as Pro-BSD and was very confused about what was going on with British politics for a second.
Well to be fair IIRC Corbyn is quite the anti-zionistic asshole, which was part of the reason Labour did so poorly and the last elections.
Yeah... I'm sure it had nothing to do with Israeli lobbyists and their PsyOps campaigns.
Zionism is religious and ethnic nationalism, implemented by colonial powers dictating control over foreign lands and people, denying them their basic human right to democracy — a "right" they codified the same year they annexed Palestine and enabled the ethnic cleansing of 750k people. Corbyn was on the right side of history and you are not.
You say anti-Zionist as if that were a bad thing. The obsession of some Germans with Israel is beyond my understanding.