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THE GUARDIAN found itself in hot water today after it smeared a Labour candidate shortlisted to stand for Birmingham Hall Green as an anti-semite in a case of mistaken identity.
Columnist Jonathan Freedland and the Guardian’s politics live blog reported that Majid Mahmood — on the Labour shortlist for the constituency — was the lawyer who had ranted online about shooting “all Israeli zionists dead” and blowing up the “chosen people.”
This Majid Mahmood, who worked for City Law Chambers in Luton as a criminal defence solicitor at the time, was fined £25,000 in 2017 for his conduct by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
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
Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott
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