Ex-Labour mayor shared Facebook post saying Holocaust receives disproportionate attention

On Thursday, PoliticsHome reported that Robin Turner, who served as a Labour councillor in Derby for 29 years, shared the post on December 27, after it had been originally published by another Facebook account.

Mr Turner wrote that the post “makes a pertinent point for the UK and Belgium. But not all the 6 million Jews killed were Zionists.”

Jennifer Gerber, the director of Labour Friends of Israel, told PoliticsHome: "Such disgusting comments would once have been unthinkable from a Labour party member. They are now all too common in Jeremy Corbyn's party.

“If Labour were truly committed to rooting out antisemitism, it would take immediate action in this and many other cases. Sadly we have little confidence it will.”

Mr Turner sat on Derby City Council between 1989 and 2018 and held the ceremonial title of Mayor of Derby for a year from 2002 until 2003.

The JC has approached Mr Turner for comment.