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In April 2016, she was suspended from the Labour Party following the emergence of a ''Facebook'' post made in 2014 which she had shared supporting the relocation of [[Israel]] to the [[United States]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36148704 |title=MP Naz Shah suspended from Labour|publisher=BBC News|date=27 April 2016|accessdate=27 April 2016}}</ref>
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In April 2016, she was suspended from the Labour Party following the emergence of a ''Facebook'' post made in 2014 which she had shared supporting the relocation of [[Israel]] to the [[United States]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36148704 |title=MP Naz Shah suspended from Labour|publisher=BBC News|date=27 April 2016|accessdate=27 April 2016}}</ref> In July 2016, Labour’s [[National Executive Committee]] decided to reinstate Naz Shah to the party.<ref>''[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/naz-shah-readmitted-to-labour-party-following-anti-semitism-row-a7121746.html "Naz Shah readmitted to Labour party following anti-Semitism row"]''</ref>
  
 
==Begging her forgiveness==
 
==Begging her forgiveness==

Revision as of 13:14, 16 October 2016

Person.png Naz Shah  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Naz Shah.jpg
Born13 November 1973
Bradford, England
Alma materUniversity of Bradford
ReligionIslam

Employment.png Member of Parliament for Bradford West

In office
7 May 2015 - Present
Preceded byNick Harvey, John Thurso

Naseem "Naz" Shah[1] is a Labour Party politician and was elected in 2015 as Member of Parliament for the constituency of Bradford West, gaining the seat from George Galloway of the Respect Party.[2]

Suspension

In April 2016, she was suspended from the Labour Party following the emergence of a Facebook post made in 2014 which she had shared supporting the relocation of Israel to the United States.[3] In July 2016, Labour’s National Executive Committee decided to reinstate Naz Shah to the party.[4]

Begging her forgiveness

Naz Shah's tongue-in-cheek solution on 5 August 2014 for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Norman Finkelstein commented:

They’re fanning the embers of hate and creating new discord between Jews and Muslims by going after Naz Shah, a Muslim woman who has attained public office. They’re making her pass through these rituals of public self-degradation, as she is forced to apologise once, twice, three times over for a tongue-in-cheek cartoon reposted from my website. And it’s not yet over! Because now they say she’s on a ‘journey’. Of course, what they mean is, ‘she’s on a journey of self-revelation, and epiphany, to understanding the inner antisemite at the core of her being’. But do you know on what journey she’s really on? She’s on a journey to becoming an antisemite. Because of these people; because they fill any sane, normal person with revulsion.
Here is this Muslim woman MP who is trying to integrate Muslims into British political life, and to set by her own person an example both to British society at large and to the Muslim community writ small. She is, by all accounts from her constituents, a respected and honourable person. You can only imagine how proud her parents, her siblings, must be. How proud the Muslim community must be. We’re always told how Muslim women are oppressed, repressed and depressed, and now you have this Muslim woman who has attained office. But now she’s being crucified, her career wrecked, her life ruined, her future in tatters, branded an ‘antisemite’ and a closet Nazi, and inflicted with these rituals of self-abasement. It’s not hard to imagine what her Muslim constituents must think now about Jews. These power hungry creeps are creating new hate by their petty machinations. As Donald Trump likes to say – it’s disgusting.
Labour has now set up an inquiry that is supposed to produce a workable definition of ‘antisemitism’ – which is to say, to achieve the impossible. It’s been tried countless times before, and it’s always proven futile. The only beneficiaries of such a mandate will be academic ‘specialists’ on antisemitism, who will receive hefty consultancy fees (I can already see Richard Evans at the head of the queue), and Israel, which will no longer be in the spotlight. I understand the short-term political rationale. But at some point, you have to say, ‘enough already’. Jews are prospering as never before in the UK. The polls show that the number of, so to speak, hard-core antisemites is miniscule. It’s time to put a stop to this periodic charade, because it ends up besmirching the victims of the Nazi holocaust, diverting from the real suffering of the Palestinian people, and poisoning relations between the Jewish and Muslim communities. You just had an antisemitism hysteria last year, and it was a farce. And now again? Another inquiry? Another investigation? No.
In order to put an end to this, there has to be a decisive repudiation of this political blackmail. Bernie Sanders was brutally pressured to back down on his claim that Israel had used disproportionate force during its 2014 assault on Gaza. He wouldn’t budge, he wouldn’t retreat. He showed real backbone. Corbyn should take heart and inspiration from Bernie’s example. He has to say: no more reports, no more investigations, we’re not going there any more. The game is up. It’s long past time that these antisemitism-mongers crawled back into their sewer – but not before humbly apologising to Naz Shah, and begging her forgiveness.[5]

 

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Related Documents

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Anatomy of a Scandal: Israel Crucifies CorbynArticle14 August 2014Michael W. Howard"Tom Watson has it backward: the 'eternal shame and embarrassment' come when Labour, swallowing whatever pride it has left, meekly submits to being harassed and blackmailed by a foreign power and its vulgar propagandists. Jeremy Corbyn, it seems, is gearing up to do just that. Chalk one up for Goebbels."
Document:The American Jewish scholar behind Labour's "antisemitism" scandal breaks his silenceInterview3 May 2016Norman Finkelstein
Jamie Stern-Weiner
Norman G. Finkelstein is clear: "It’s time to put a stop to this periodic charade, because it ends up besmirching the victims of the Nazi holocaust, diverting from the real suffering of the Palestinian people, and poisoning relations between the Jewish and Muslim communities. You just had an antisemitism hysteria last year, and it was a farce. And now again? Another inquiry? Another investigation? No."
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References

  1. Rosemary Hunter; Clare McGlynn; Erika Rackley (30 September 2010). Feminist Judgments: From Theory to Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 279–. ISBN 978-1-84731-727-8.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  2. "Bradford West Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2015.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  3. "MP Naz Shah suspended from Labour". BBC News. 27 April 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2016.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  4. "Naz Shah readmitted to Labour party following anti-Semitism row"
  5. "The American Jewish scholar behind Labour’s ‘antisemitism’ scandal breaks his silence"


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