This is the moment a Green Party councillor shouts 'Allahu Akbar' after being elected in Leeds - as he declares his victory 'a win for the people of Gaza'.
The Muslim Vote also called for Sir Keir Starmer to recognise a Palestinian statePro-Gaza activists have dramatically issued a list of 18 demands to Sir Keir Starmer and threatened to withhold their support at the next general election if he does not fulfil them.
The activists claim to have more than 25 organisations backing them, although it was revealed earlier this year that at least two of them were being investigated over extremism concerns. One of its supporters Muhammad Jalal, who has appeared on the campaign's social media pages, was previously head of the now-banned Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Sir Keir Starmer pictured in Birmingham on Saturday after Labour won the West Midlands mayoral election. The Labour leader said he was keen to 'win back the trust' of voters who didn't turn out for the party over its position on Gaza This sparked the Muslim Vote to issue a list of demands on X, formerly known as Twitter, which it said he needed to fulfil if he was 'serious' he wanted to win back their votes.
Advertisement It also called for a travel ban on Israeli politicians who backed military action in Gaza and the implementation of sanctions on companies and settlers operating in 'occupied territories'.These include issuing guidance that Muslims are allowed to pray in school and scrapping a 19th-century law that ban priests and imams from telling their congregation how to vote.
On its website The Muslim Vote claims that it will help communities organise political campaigns and brags that it has a 'bank of thousands of volunteers' at the ready. While a date for the general election has not yet been set, it will take place before the end of January, and campaign literature, including a poster showing a box on a ballot paper, sloganed with the phrase 'Vote for genocide, vote Labour - seen taped to a bus stop opposite a Jewish bakery - has already been seen in the area.
His real name is Jalaluddin Patel and he was the UK leader of the now-banned Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir between 2000 and 2005, with the government banning the organisation earlier this year. Jalal has denied supporting terrorism and says he has had nothing to do with Hizb ut-Tahrir since 2008. Muhammad Jalal, whose real name is Jalaluddin Patel , is one of the groups supporters and has appeared on its social media accounts
These two organisations were among a string which Michael Gove revealed last month could be checked against the Government's new definition of extremism. Vowing to mobilise the four million Muslim voters in the UK, the activist group claims it has a 'bank of thousands of volunteers' who can help in political campaigns.
It claims to be backed by more than 25 organisations, including the Muslim Association of Britain, Muslim Engagement and Development, and the Palestinian Forum in Britain. Other groups the campaign claims to have the backing of include the Palestinian Forum in Britain, Muslim Census and the Muslim Councils of Scotland and Wales.
'This is a consequence of the Left's attempt to segment society and create a coalition of minorities rather than a unified whole. This is very divisive for the country at large.' Sir Keir suffered the biggest rebellion of his leadership in November when ten frontbenchers resigned or quit over his refusal to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
There was a similar surge in Bradford, where nine of the 30 seats went to independents. Seven of the candidates either criticised Labour directly for its Gaza stance, or made pro-Palestinian statements. Before the count there had been an anonymous briefing to the BBC – condemned by Labour HQ – that the party would lose the contest as a result of the 'Middle East not West Midlands', and that Hamas were 'real villains'.
Both groups are saying they 'will not rest until their demands are met', with study tents, toilet facilities, and food making areas already in place. The pro-Palestine supporters at Oxford pitched up their tents this morning outside the Pitt Rivers Museum, which they claim holds 'a disturbing hoard of artefacts stolen from colonised peoples across the world'
Alongside this they have argued that 'Oxford men orchestrate occupation', naming Alfred Milner and Cecil Rhodes as evidence, and that 'Oxford men facilitate genocide'.This followers other Russell Group universities including Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Sheffield and Newcastle have pitched tents and erected anti-Israel signs as they call for an end to military action in the Gaza strip.
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