Before the hearing started, Mr Livingstone had said he would take the party to court if, as he expected, he was expelled.
He had also claimed that he was being hounded by supporters of Israel, who were trying to “silence” his criticism of the treatment of the Palestinians.
On Thursday, Mr Livingstone gave an impromptu speech as he arrived at the hearing in London, claiming Hitler had agreed to a demand from Zionists to make rabbis preach in Hebrew rather than Yiddish, and that only the Nazi flag and the flag of the Zionist movement were permitted to be flown in Germany before the war.
According to the Guardian, the Jewish Labour Movement submitted a 170-page document which included condemnation of Mr Livingstone’s statements from both Orthodox and Progressive rabbis.
Mr Livingstone called five Jewish anti-Zionist Labour members in his defence.
