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Elected local Labour secretary suspended after 'comparing Israel to Isis'

Blog posts uncovered since his election show Hüseyin Ali-Diakides praised Hamas, and posed for a picture in front of a Hezbollah flag

August 5, 2019 14:53
In a blog post, Mr Ali-Diakides compared Israel to Isis
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An activist who compared Israel to Isis and has expressed support for Hezbollah has been suspended - a month after being elected as secretary of one of the country’s largest local Labour parties.

Hüseyin Ali-Diakides was voted in with a margin of 37 to seven by the Labour Party in Stroud Green on July 3, despite running uncontested.

Stroud Green is a Haringey council ward in North London which straddles the Hornsey and Wood Green and Tottenham parliamentary constituencies.

In recent days a series of contentious blog posts by Mr Ali-Diakides have been uncovered, including those in which he compared Israel to the so-called Islamic State (IS), and praised Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and “real jihadis” such as Hamas and Hezbollah.