The UK's Labour Party deselected Faiza Shaheen as a candidate for the marginal London seat of Chingford and Woodford Green over a series of social media posts which expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), praised former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and backed candidates running for the Green Party, among other issues, Middle East Eye has been told.
According to the earliest post, a now-deleted tweet from 25 March 2014, Shaheen liked an announcement from environmental economist Griffin Carpenter that he was deciding to stand as a Green Party candidate for Hackney Council.
A second was from 3 August 2014, during Israel's six-week war on the Gaza Strip, where an X user calling himself Rod Dixon shared a message in support of boycotting Israeli goods, and argued that the tactic worked against apartheid South Africa.
One of the more recent posts she liked, and which was flagged by the NEC, was from 12 May 2024, where Philip Lemoine, a PhD candidate and writer at the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI), said: "Every time you say something even mildly critical of Israel, you're immediately assailed by scores of hysterical people who explain to you why you're completely wrong, how youβre biased against Israel.