The former party leader, 74, will stand in his Islington North constituency after being removed from the Labor candidate list.
Former Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will stand as an independent candidate in the UK general election on July 4, a move that could spark a potential upset for Labor in his north London seat.
Corbyn, who has represented the London constituency of Islington North for more than 40 years, announced on Friday that he would run for the seat to be “an independent voice for equality, democracy and peace.”
Labor officials have not included the 74-year-old on a shortlist of candidates for the job, leading to his decision to go alone.
“I want our political parties to be democratic, but Islington North Labor Party members have been denied the right to choose a candidate,” Corbyn said in a video announcing his plan.
“So we have to get up. We have to stand up and say: we are not going to put up with this anymore. We will assert our rights. “That is why I am standing as an independent candidate for the town of Islington North.”
Labor suspended Corbyn in 2020 following a report into how complaints of anti-Semitism were handled under his leadership. Corbyn was Labor leader in the last election in 2019 and has held the Islington North seat since 1983.
Corbyn, who has long been a staunch critic of Israel's Palestine policies, acknowledged some of the findings during his leadership, adding that Jewish members of the Labor Party and the wider community “were right to expect us to deal of it.” But he added that he does not accept “all the conclusions.”
An Al Jazeera investigation into the crisis found that senior Labor officials had attempted at the time to undermine support for Corbyn and, at times, silence debate over Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
Critic of Israel's war on Gaza
After the October 7 attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Israel and the start of Israel's relentless war on Gaza that killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, Corbyn again emerged as a critic of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and politics. general of the Israeli government.
In November, he was one of the first politicians to call on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate what he described as a “genocide” in Gaza.
“People in Gaza have been living under a blockade for the past 16 years and the Israeli occupation controls most of what enters and leaves Gaza,” he said, while accusing politicians around the world of giving Israel “green light to starve.” and massacre the Palestinian people in the name of self-defense.”
He said the Hamas-led attack cannot justify “the indiscriminate bombing and starvation of the Palestinian people, who are being punished for a heinous crime they did not commit.”
Since October, Corbyn has also joined several protests in the United Kingdom denouncing Israel's military operation in Gaza.
On Thursday, UK political leaders began six weeks of campaigning before the country votes for a new government on July 4.
A Survation snap poll of voting intentions after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's announcement put center-left Labor on 48 points, its highest level since November 2022 and 21 points ahead of the ruling Conservatives, on 27.
Survation said the results were consistent with Labor polling throughout 2023 and this year. Other surveys have suggested similar results.
