Labour councilor suspended for anti-Israel Facebook posts
The Labour Party has suspended a councilor for anti-Israel comments he posted on Facebook two years ago.
The opposition party said on Monday that Ilyas Aziz, a Nottingham City councilor, was suspended until further investigation.
Aziz posted a number of comments condemning Israel's polices against Palestinians on his social media page in 2014 that were disclosed on the Guido Website.
One post suggested Israel should be relocated to the US, echoing similar comments posted by Naz Shah, a Labour MP who was suspended last week by the party.
Aziz wrote on his page that Israel is an illegal state and called Israelis as “Zionist invaders.”
"Jews and Muslims lived together in the Middle East in peace pre 1948,” one of his posts read.
“Perhaps it would have been wiser to create Israel in America. It is big enough. They could relocate even now,” another post said.
He also posted a link to an article about Nazi Germany and wrote “a reminder of the treatment and suffering of Jews in Nazi Germany. Are there any similarities to how Israel is treating Palestinians.”
The councilor asked Israelis in a post to stop “drinking Gaza blood” and wrote "If the Israelis really wanted to target terrorists why aren't they killing themselves?"
The Labour Party has come under pressure for recent anti-Israeli remarks made by a number of its politicians.
Former London Mayor Ken Livingston was suspended last week after he defended Naz Shah in an interview with BBC on Thursday and criticized the British media for ignoring Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people. Livingston also said that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had been a Zionist early in his political career.
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has been criticized for failing to take a firm stance on anti-Semitism in the party. Last week, he ordered an inquiry into the issue. He also said he would propose a new code of conduct banning any forms of racism in his party.
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