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    Fresh headache for Keir Starmer as pro-Gaza professor launches campaign against top Labour MP

    by Archie Mitchell May 09, 2024 4 minutes

    Sir Keir Starmer is facing a fresh headache over Gaza just days after pro-Palestinian candidates cost Labour tens of thousands of votes at the local elections.

    The former head of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) is running against shadow veterans minister Steve McCabe in Birmingham Selly Oak, which has a significant Muslim population.

    Kamel Hawwash, who is a Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham, is standing against the veteran MP, who is also the chairman of Labour Friends of Israel.

    Professor Hawwash said Keir Starmer’s comments on LBC were ‘beyond the pale’

    He is standing , a group which will field a slew of candidates across the country at the next

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