The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has asked a senior official to suspend his social media activity after a controversial tweet that used an antisemitic trope.
On Sunday evening, FBU Executive Council member Paul Embery tweeted to quote folk singer Mike Harding, saying: “‘A nation is not a home.’ I fear this encapsulates the divide in our society – between a rootless, cosmopolitan, bohemian middle-class…and a rooted, communitarian, patriotic working-class”.
Many were quick to criticise Mr Embery’s use of “rootless, cosmopolitan”, including Jewish MP Alex Sobel who tweeted: “Literally an anti-semitic trope used by Stalin the culmination of which saw many good bundists imprisoned by East European Communist regimes (including my grandfather)…stop othering Jews”.
