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Ex-Labour parliamentary candidate let off over tweets on antisemitism and Jewish MP's 'Zionist sympathies'

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt said Labour's National Constitutional Committee 'found the charges lodged against me to have been unproven'

May 15, 2019 15:42
Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt
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Labour’s highest disciplinary committee, the National Constitutional Committee (NCC), has dismissed charges against a parliamentary candidate after she was investigated  over tweets about antisemitism and a Jewish MP’s “Zionist sympathies”.

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, who joined the party when Jeremy Corbyn became leader, was chosen to be candidate for South Thanet in April 2018.

But in December, Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) said it would not back her, over tweets from the think tank she founded, the Centre for Cultural Change.

As revealed by the Guido Fawkes blog, the Twitter account associated with the think tank tweeted messages during 2016 and 2017 dismissing antisemitism in Labour.