Owen Jones
@OwenJones84
Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel https://t.co/KOwFSPHf2t š³ļøāš
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The deselection of Faiza Shaheen is unacceptable.
To use her tweets accounting personal experiences of Islamophobia as evidence for deselection is utterly outrageous.
Telling a Muslim woman she is not allowed to talk about her own experiences of racism is clear Islamophobia.
Michael Wheeler Destroying a young motherās career as her baby cried and landing yourself a plum job, all in the same week! You must feel so proud š¹
Those who are claiming the current Labour stitch-up is something all leaderships doing are either
a) ignorant about history
or
b) dishonest
Important rebuttal from the seasoned Chris Mullin
theguardian.com/commentisfree/ā¦
.Faiza Shaheen has been replaced by the co-chair of āLabour to Winā (Akehurstās faction). Itās unashamed self-interested factionalism from a bunch of bullying careerists who do not deserve your support.
Michael Wheeler sat on the three person panel that blocked Faiza Shaheen for liking perfectly reasonable tweets. Faizaās baby cried throughout (she had been given only hours notice of the meeting that decided her fate). Michael had his camera off as he was āout and aboutā. Two
Dear Keir Starmer Do you think it is in any acceptable for one of your candidates to support war crimes? Settlements in Occupied Territory are war crimes, a violation of the Rome Statute (incl West Bank & Golan, both of which are occupied territory)
Faiza Shaheen 'I have not experienced this level of relentless hostility in all my personal or professional life - not even from the Conservatives'
This is the most damning indictment of Labour I have seen. Thank you for expressing it Faiza.