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UK Conservatives defend selection of former neo-Nazi as a candidate
Badenoch says the former extremist is rehabilitated as Jewish leaders call the appointment an insult and urge the party to reverse course.
- On Wednesday, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch defended the selection of Bonehill-Paine as a local councillor candidate, arguing that rehabilitation should not make former offenders "untouchable."
- Bonehill-Paine was previously sentenced to three years in prison for spreading antisemitic material ahead of a neo-Nazi rally and was convicted for racially aggravated harassment against then-Labour MP Luciana Berger.
- Writing on Tuesday, House of Lords member Berger stated the case "still haunts me," noting he published "reams of deeply racist, misogynistic and pornographic material" about her.
- In a joint statement, the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council said they have "agreed to meet the Conservative Party" to discuss decision-making processes and urge rescission of the selection.
- SNP MP Seamus Logan condemned the party for standing a "former Nazi," demanding clarity on whether such candidates would be permitted in next year's Scottish council elections.
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Convicted hate offender quits UK election race
A British man who was convicted in 2016 of a campaign of racist abuse against a Jewish lawmaker withdrew his candidacy on Thursday as a Conservative Party candidate in a local election.Joshua Bonehill-Paine—who had served a three-year jail sentence for antisemitic hate speech online even before his 2016 conviction for harassing MP Luciana Berger—wrote in a Facebook post that he had decided to withdraw because the Conservatives’ rivals would "spe…
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Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed in 2016 after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment.
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