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Labour MP Naz Shah hired ‘Zio tweet’ councillor as parliamentary aide

April 27, 2016 10:09
Labour councillor Mohammed Shabbir

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Marcus Dysch,

Marcus Dysch

3 min read

Labour MP Naz Shah employed as an aide a councillor who posted antisemitic remarks on Twitter.

The Bradford West MP employed Mohammed Shabbir as a member of her staff and gave him a parliamentary email address, it has been claimed.

Mr Shabbir, who represents Labour on Bradford Council, has previously posted tweets about a “Palestinian Holocaust in Gaza” and repeatedly used the term “Zio”.

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…”.