Now Sheffield Green reshares post saying to condemn October 7 attack is ‘shameful support for Jews’

The JC reports that Sheffield Green councillor Mustafa Ahmed has reposted an October 2023 Arabic text and quotes his defence at length. In its own voice it says revelations about his posts led to the coalition's collapse, a cause Labour's council leader gave. It never reports in its own voice the national Labour instruction to end the deal, which its own earlier report and the BBC carried.

1. States one side's claim as fact

   Minor

   “after revelations about his social media led to the collapse of the city’s Labour-Green administration”

   Why this matters

   In its own voice the JC states that the revelations about Ahmed's posts "led to the collapse" of the coalition.

   The impression it gives

   That Ahmed's posts were the settled cause of the coalition ending.

   The context

   Later in the article the JC attributes this to Fran Belbin, who said the posts were "the final straw". The BBC reports that the collapse followed national Labour chiefs telling 11 councils, including Sheffield, to break their deals with the Greens. The JC's own earlier report says Labour leadership had made denouncing the motion a condition of the partnership continuing. Belbin's account of the cause is presented as an established fact.

   How we know

   • Elsewhere in the article“had been the final straw for coalition talks”
   • BBC News reported“which saw national Labour chiefs telling 11 councils, including Sheffield, to break their power deals with the Greens”Labour and Green coalition on Sheffield City Council collapses (opens in a new tab)
   • The Jewish Chronicle wrote earlier“Labour leadership had instructed that Greens sharing power with them at a local level must denounce the policy for the partnership to continue.”Labour coalition in Sheffield collapses after JC reveals Green councillor’s damning posts (opens in a new tab)