A senior regional official in the Labour Party was suspended this weekend after it emerged his social media account contained material that blamed Jews for “all the wars in the world”.

The Twitter feed belonging to Mohammed Yasin, the party’s regional organiser in the West Midlands, contained a series of antisemitic posts and conspiracy theories about the attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001.

In February 2016, the account repeated the remark “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” — originally made by the actor Mel Gibson ten years previously — and shared a meme that showed an image of two people laughing hysterically under the headline “when someone tells me it’s not the Jews”.

The posts were discovered by the Sunday Times, which said Mr Yasin was a paid employee of the Labour Party at the time he shared them.

Mr Yasin is not to be confused with the Labour MP for Bedford, who has a similar name.

Other material on the account included a video describing the Rothschilds as the world’s “most wicked and wealthiest family” and a 2015 cartoon showing broadcasters including the BBC and CNN ignoring butchered Palestinians and focusing their camera on a crying baby wearing a Star of David.

Although many activists and members have been accused of antisemitic attitudes, Mr Yasin would be the first member of staff to be implicated, the newspaper said.

His Twitter account, now deleted, showed a photograph of him alongside party leader Jeremy Corbyn at the Labour conference in Liverpool on September 27 this year.

He wrote: “great to catch up with Labour colleagues and the Shadow Cabinet at the staff event yesterday. JC for PM.”