Camden’s Greens have withdrawn support for one of their election candidates who was suspended by the national party after he shared claims linking Israel to the arson attack on Jewish ambulances in March.
A repost on the social media profile of Aziz Rahman Hakimi, who was nominated as a Green candidate for Haverstock ward in Camden, provoked outrage in April as it alleged that the torching of Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green in March was in fact a “false flag” operation carried out by Israel.
Last Friday, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) confirmed the national Green Party had suspended Mr Hakimi following an investigation into his social media activity, which included sharing allegations that “Zionists” were behind 9/11. Labour and Liberal Democrats branded his conduct as “abhorrent and anti-Semitism”.
The LDRS can now report that Camden Greens have dropped all support for Aziz Hakimi’s candidacy at a local level. He has also been removed from its full list of candidate profiles on the Camden Greens website.
But despite the local party removing him from its official list of candidates he will remain on Thursday’s ballot paper as a Green Party candidate.
This is because under electoral law, if a party nominates someone as their official candidate with a political party description and a logo, once the nomination deadline has passed the ballot paper cannot be amended – even if that candidate is suspended or expelled.
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