Moment Green Party councillor shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ & vows to ‘raise the voice of Gaza’ after winning election in Leeds
THIS is the moment a Green Party councillor shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ after being elected.
Mothin Ali, 42, vowed to “raise the voice of Palestine” when he won the Gipton and Harehills seat in Leed.
Video posted on TikTok shows Ali being declared the winner before he burst into the speech.
As two men hold a Palestinian flag behind him, he said he ran for election “for the community of Gipton and Harehills who are fed up of being let down by the Labour council.
“Who are fed up of being taken for granted. Who are fed up with being neglected by this rotten council.”
At this point Ali began to be interrupted by people in the crowd – with one man shouting for him to “shut up” and “f**k off”..
He continued: “This is a win for the people of Gaza. We will not be silent.
“We will raise the voice of Gaza. We will raise the voice of Palestine. Allahu Akbar”
Ali posted the video on his own TikTok page with the caption: The results for Gipton and Harehills, a huge win for our community, we’ve been neglected for far too long, it’s time to start working to build our community up again.
“Our community has rejected the labour party‘s support of the genocide in Gaza.
“This was a huge community effort, people from all backgrounds came together to achieve this historic result.”
It comes after a Labour row erupted this week after party insiders blamed a possible local election upset on Hamas.
One of their own secretly briefed the BBC, suggesting the Tories would hold the West Midlands mayoralty because Muslim voters disagreed with Labour’s stance on the Gaza war.
A Labour source said: “It’s the Middle East, not the West Midlands, that will have won the mayoralty.
“Once again Hamas are the real villains.”
But the comment was blasted by senior Labour MPs, who called for the secret source to be kicked out of the party immediately.
An official spokesman said: “The Labour Party has strongly condemned this racist quote, which has not come from anyone who is speaking on behalf of the party or whose values are welcome in the party.”
The outcry came as leader Sir Keir Starmer admitted his party is haemorrhaging votes among Muslims because of its position on Palestine.
He has spent months avoiding calls for a ceasefire in war-torn Gaza.