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THE right-wing candidate in a crucial election to Labour’s national executive has been caught co-ordinating a smear campaign against her rival.
Jasmin Beckett, the Labour First faction’s candidate in today’s youth rep contest, is accused of inciting supporters to slur left candidate James Elliott on social media.
The Star has seen details of a formal complaint sent to Labour Party general secretary Iain McNicol on the eve of the election that demands Ms Beckett’s disqualification. It includes evidence that, in a Facebook group used to co-ordinate her campaign, she urged supporters to use their Twitter accounts to suggest that Mr Elliott was an anti-semite. “Get a few people tweeting saying ‘shocked my union GMB are supporting James Elliott who is anti-semitic’?” she wrote.
In search of political understanding, MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes a critique of anti-semitism as codified by the Israeli state
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
The New York mayoral candidate has electrified the US public with policies of social justice and his refusal to be cowed. We can follow his example here, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
