Thread by @LabourAgainstAS

Labour councillor behind new initiative to fight racism has history of alleged antisemitism
- claimed 'Marks & Spencer are directly killing innocent Palestinian people by directly funding the Zionist regime', & liked an antisemitic Rothschild post
(Thread)
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Euan Philipps, spokesperson for LAAS, said:
“We reported Councillor Ahad to the Labour Party in November 2017, after we had compiled a detailed dossier of antisemitic social media comments he had made (and that were previously unseen).
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“Despite being told that an investigation would be opened into his conduct, no action has been taken by the party, and in May 2018 Councillor Ahad was even allowed to stand again as a Labour council candidate.
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“Now Labour appears to be promoting him as some kind of ‘hate-crime Czar’, a bizarre move which completely ignores his alleged track record of promoting racial hatred.
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"We demand that Nick Forbes, the Leader of Newcastle City Council, and Fiona Stanton, the Labour Regional Director, show they are prepared to finally take the issue of antisemitism in their area seriously...
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... and remove Councillor Ahad from any race-relations role he has been given, and open up the investigation into his previous behaviour that our dossier warrants.”
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