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Ex-aide to Naz Shah ‘suspended from Labour’ over antisemitic posts

April 27, 2016 14:10
Councillor Mohammed Shabbir

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Rosa Doherty,

Rosa Doherty

3 min read

A councillor who was employed by Labour MP Naz Shah as a parliamentary aide has been suspended from the party over antisemitic social media posts.

Mohammed Shabbir, who represents Labour on Bradford Council, sent tweets which referred to a “Palestinian Holocaust in Gaza” and repeatedly used the term “Zio”.

Mr Shabbir told the website Guido Fawkes that he had been suspended by the party over the comments.

In a blog post about sex crimes and grooming, he claimed Russian Orthodox Jews were involved in “the sex trafficking trade - demand is particularly high among Charedim, the conservative Orthodox Jews, many of whom are regular clients of brothels…”.

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