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Labour Councillor suspended for 'relocate Jews' comment

May 2, 2016 11:36
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Rosa Doherty,

Rosa Doherty

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Labour Councillor, Ilyas Aziz, has been suspended after he called for Jews to be “relocated” to America.

A Labour Party spokesperson confirmed Mr Aziz had been “suspended from the Labour Party pending an investigation.”

According to the website Guido Fawkes, Mr Aziz, who backed Jeremy Corbyn for leader, shared a post arguing that Israeli Jews should “relocate” to America “now”.

The Nottingham councillor wrote on Facebook in July 2014: “Jews and Muslims lived together in the Middle East in peace pre 1948.

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