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Just seen a LibDem call Corbyn an antisemite, which prompts me to share a story. In 2005 the LD candidate standing against Gerald Kaufman for Mcr Gorton was a guy called Qassim Afzal. >
Gorton has a high Muslim population & Afzal's campaign included going round mosques telling people it was their duty to vote for a Muslim against "the Jew". Gerald went ballistic & reported this to LD HQ. Their response? They ignored it & stood Afzal against him again in 2010. >
In 2010 there were no electoral hustings in Manchester Gorton because Gerald Kaufman point blank refused to even sit in the same room as Afzal. That election Kaufman increased his majority from 6,000 to 7,000. >
Footnote. In 2017 Qassim Afzal reappeared in Gorton. Not as a Lib Dem, but as electoral agent for George Fucking Galloway.

Now come tell me again about the Liberal Democrats principled opposition to antisemitism.
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