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Is $2p+1$ is a prime number when some binomial satisfies a congruence?

Let $p$ be a positive integer; assume $$(2p+1)\mid\left(\binom{2p}{p}+(-1)^{p-1}\right)$$

I conjecture that $2p+1$ is a prime number. Is this true?