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Freelance education researcher; Hackney activist; Standing for council in 2026 in Homerton ward; Tweets on politics, pop culture, sociology; (she/her)

Sep 11, 2021, 17 tweets

I'm being investigated by Labour for action that "undermines the Party’s ability to campaign against racism" and "may reasonably be seen to involve antisemitic actions, stereotypes and sentiments". Summary charges are below with links to the 14 items in the rest of the thread.

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This article that @abbyhoffmann and I wrote on Jewish identity, specifically this sentence: "The weaponisation of anti-semitism against the left and how it is used to silence criticism of Israel are well-rehearsed." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/how-…

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Finally, I liked this tweet replying to me

A weird thing is that the letter contains screen grabs of all these tweets with my Twitter icon of TV's Betty, a character who faces lies, abuse and sabotage from many of her colleagues with a generosity of spirit that is similar to Corbyn's and that I admire but do not share.

Thanks for reading to the end, I'm going to try to shamelessly leverage this thread by asking you to sign & share a petition. You don't need to be from Hackney to sign, you just need to care about public housing and development for people not profit. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/morn…

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