Labour has withdrawn its support for Azhar Ali, its candidate for this month’s Rochdale byelection, in the wake of controversial comments he made about the 7 October attacks on Israel.
In line with electoral law, Labour cannot replace Ali with another candidate because the deadline passed on 2 February. He will stand as a Labour candidate on the ballot paper, but if elected he will not hold the party whip and will sit as an independent MP.
Labour sources said that campaigners in Rochdale were told to stop leafleting and social media activity on Ali’s behalf at 5.30pm on Monday – an instruction that came from party HQ.
He’s not wrong though. Israel did know. They had a copy of the Al-Aqsa Flood plan months before it happened.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html
Egypt also warned Israel.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/
They also moved troops away from the Gazan border before the 7th
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-spokesman-denies-troops-were-diverted-from-gaza-border-to-west-bank-before-oct-7/
All of this is publicly available, just not really reported in the British press. Labour, like the Tories, are providing diplomatic cover for Israel. They’ve ousted him for telling the truth.