Labour official becomes 'first party employee' accused of antisemitism

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In February 2016, the account repeated the remark “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” — originally made by the actor Mel Gibson ten years previously — and shared a meme that showed an image of two people laughing hysterically under the headline “when someone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.