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Labour group attacked over boycott backing

February 24, 2011 14:59

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Simon Rocker,

Simon Rocker

1 min read

Hendon Labour Party has protested to the leader of the Labour group on Tower Hamlets Council over its support for a resolution to boycott Israel.

Councillors in the east London borough last month voted in favour of sanctions against the "pariah state".

They also called for a review of the council's waste collection contract with Veolia, claiming the multinational company's work in Israel assisted the "oppression" of Palestinians.

Hendon Labour party chairman Tom Lavelle and vice-chairman Adam Langleben called the council proposals "unacceptable, divisive and outside the mandate of a local authority", in a letter to Tower Hamlets Labour group leader Helal Uddin Abbas.

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