London Labour Councillor Suspended Over Tweets About Sharia Law
A West London Labour councillor from Kensington has been suspended by her party over tweets that some have branded 'Islamophobic and racist'.
The Labour Party has confirmed this afternoon that Kensington and Chelsea councillor Eva Jedut has been administratively suspended, while a source claims she was told to resign as far back as April of this year.
Councillor Jedut, who represents Dalgarno ward, is accused of sharing Islamophobic and racist posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, and is now being investigated by the party.
Labour said it takes complaints seriously and assesses them in accordance with its rules and procedures.
Kensington and Chelsea Labour Group said it could not comment on the ongoing issue. The BBC's Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), who first reported the story, said they had reviewed a number of posts shared on councillor Jedut's account.
In one post, councillor Jedut questioned if the Labour Party had been using its Muslim members to try to impose Sharia Law in the UK. The post included screenshots of a Wikipedia page explaining Sir Trevor Phillips' suspension from the Labour Party in March 2020 over alleged Islamophobic statements. Phillips was reinstated in July 2021.
In a post on September 15 2023, she called on refugees to seek asylum in Saudi Arabia rather than Britain. In another, she claimed anti-Christian sentiment was 'real' in the UK while sharing an article on Poland's upcoming referendum asking if the country should accept 'thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa'.
In another, she appears to claim the All Party Parliamentary Group's definition of Islamophobia as "fiction" and later as "wrong".
The suspension comes months after a Hammersmith and Fulham Labour councillor quit the Labour Party after allegedly being suspended for sharing racist and anti-Semitic tweets. Councillor David Morton resigned his membership on Sunday, July 23, with "immediate effect" claiming the party no longer reflected the views of his constituents and that there had been a "smear campaign" against him by Labour.
Recently, yet another Labour councillor was suspended, this time for online anti-Semitism.
Councillor Miqdad Al-Nuaimi, who has represented Labour on Newport City Council since 2000 and has been the city's former mayor, was suspended for tweeting "A Final Solution for the Gazans, 2 million people, Genocidal annihilation."
His comments were in response to Israel launching retaliatory attacks on Gaza after terrorist organization Hamas carried out a series of war crimes against innocent Israelis.
The gunmen breached the southern border over the weekend, executing civilians and kidnapping a number of men, women and children.
Al-Nuaimi's reference to the Nazi's "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" is not the first time he has come under fire for anti-Semitism.
In 2014, the Newport Labour councillor said that Israel was forcing Gazans to flee into "the subterranean tunnels so that the maximum number can be incinerated in the shortest time" adding "#FinalSolution achieved!"
Miqdad Al-Nuaimi was suspended in May, 2016 over tweets including "Jews in whose name #Israeli #Zionist regime commit war crimes should worry, it's same arrogant mentality as #nazis".