Jon Stewart Wades Into Row Over UK Election Hopeful’s Israel Tweets: “Dumbest Thing The UK Has Done Since Electing Boris Johnson”
deadline.comJon Stewart has waded into a row about the UK Labour Party blocking election candidate Faiza Shaheen from running for Parliament over her historical tweets relating to Israel.
Stewart shared a Twitter (now X) post from former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, in which Hasan claimed that Shaheen had been “suspended” from Labour for liking a tweet that featured Stewart’s famous 2014 ‘We Need to Talk About Israel’ sketch. “This is the dumbest thing The UK has done since electing Boris Johnson…what the actual fuck…” Stewart, who is Jewish, told his 1.7M followers.
This is the dumbest thing The UK has done since electing Boris Johnson…what the actual fuck… https://t.co/n6Ekibi5is The reality of the situation is a little more complicated than Hasan’s post suggested, however.
Shaheen has not been disciplined for simply liking Stewart’s skit. In an interview with BBC Newsnight on Wednesday, Shaheen said she has not been selected as Labour’s candidate for the Parliamentary seat of Chingford and Woodford Green in London ahead of the July 4 election.
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