Thread by @LabourAgainstAS

Newly-elected @UKLabour councillor still under investigation over antisemitism posts:
- Sam Gorst won his Liverpool City Council seat despite the probe & poor performance by Labour nationwide
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@LabourAgainstAS revealed that Cllr Gorst had written on Facebook that Ken Livingstone "must remain defiant throughout this antisemitism witchhunt", as the former London mayor was suspended by the party for his comments about Hitler and Zionism.
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Cllr Gorst also defended Pete Willsman, who ranted about Jewish people being "Trump fanatics and all the rest of it" during a meeting of Labour's National Executive Committee. He wrote: "Momentum needs to back Pete Willsman and apologise to the membership."
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He also urged people to join Jewish Voice For Labour, the fringe pro-Corbyn group, saying: "It sickens me that some MPs and corrupt groups are still using antisemitism as a political weapon to call out our twice democratically elected leader."
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In another post, he shared someone else's claim that they could not "differentiate between Nazism and Zionism as two criminal regimes in this picture" alongside images of the Gaza Strip's border with Israel and a concentration camp fence.
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“The election of Sam Gorst as a Labour candidate, given his alleged antisemitic views, is extremely disappointing. That he will now be in a position of power on Liverpool City Council is a matter of grave concern," said @LabourAgainstAS spokesman @EuanPhilipps.
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He added Labour "should have withdrawn their support for Mr Gorst and suspended him from the party as soon as the allegations against him came to light, making clear to the public the gravity of those allegations".

Labour declined to comment.
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