London mayoral hopeful suspended for telling voters in 1997 ‘don’t vote for a Jew’

INN ^ | 09/14/20 18:19 | Cnaan Lipshiz/JTA

[Olog-hai]

The United Kingdom’s fourth largest party suspended a candidate for mayor of London who was filmed in 1997 telling voters not to support a Jew.

The Liberal Democrats suspended Geeta Sidhu-Robb, who was vying to become their candidate in London’s 2021 mayoral elections, the Jewish News of London reported.

Over the weekend, a video emerged on Twitter showing her during her 1997 general election campaign for the constituency of Blackburn in northern England. In that campaign, Sidhu-Robb was running as a member of the Conservative Party against Jack Straw, a former Labour lawmaker.

“Don’t vote for a Jew. Jack Straw is a Jew. If you vote for him you’re voting for a Jew,” Sidhu-Robb is seen saying in Urdu into a loudspeaker in Blackburn. …

[SeekAndFind]

Yeah, don’t vote for a Jew... and the citizens of London listened and elected a Muslim instead!

[Regulator]

“the citizens of London”

Were they really English citizens?

[Jewbacca]

I don’t know her nationality, but she was yelling in Urdu, which is the language of Pakistan and also spoken by Muslims in India.

So, I can guess pretty accurately.

[a fool in paradise]

Pakistani (muslim) went from campaigning in the ‘conservative party’ against ‘a Jew’ to running as a “liberal democrat”

Okayyy

[Roadrunner383]

This in the UK, so don’t guess this is the Jack Straw that was from Wichita.

[nwrep]

[nickcarraway]

Corbynite?

[Buckeye McFrog]

That’s a man, baby!

[Jewbacca]

Veils are a beauty enhancer for Pakis.

[freedumb2003]

I am surprised. Given the resurgence of virulent antisemitism in Europe and England I was expecting them to crown her Mayor/Queen.

[SJackson]

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The candidate peddling her companies product, Nosh Detox. Didn't want to name her product after an Old English term I guess. Went with Yiddish.

[freedumb2003]

Whuf! She is self-deluded!

[Bikkuri]

THAT looks like a Halloween mask of a witch...

[Jewbacca]

“Nosh” has a rather more “modern” meaning in London.

While it can refer to getting a light bit of food, it’s more commonly used to describe a Lewinsky.

[dfwgator]

She’s a “Two Veiler”.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

In the video, taken from a documentary about the 1997 elections, Sidhu-Robb explains that she decided on this tactic because her rival’s campaign staffers were saying she’s “against Islam,” making the issue “racist, it’s making it personal.”

She is an Indian born in Malawi. I see that multiculturalism is working out well for the U.K.

[SJackson]

That’s funny. So in London I probably shouldn’t ask a woman if she want’s to go for a nosh.

[Jewbacca]

I guess that all depends.

Ha.

[Eleutheria5]

Funny. She doesn’t look Jewish.