The Lib Dems have suspended a General Election candidate who urged people to drop WhatsApp because it was "Zionist backed".
Waheed Rafiq, who is standing in Birmingham Hodge Hill, had demanded in a post in 2014 that his friends boycott WhatsApp because he claimed it was “Zionist backed”. He had also written: “Shocking to see how the Jewish government call them self Jews when they are wiping out all the people of Gaza”.
In the earlier post, he wrote: “Please note Jeff Rothschild is the Vice President of Infrastructure software and thus also a share holder in Facebook. There are other non Zionist apps such as the Telegram Messaging App.
"It's available on both android and apple users created by two brothers in Berlin. It's better encrypted, much safer and thus better than WhatsApp.
