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Labour councillor suspended after 'antisemitic' social media posts revealed
Ansar Hussain was elected in 2021 for the Wolverton ward in Milton Keynes
May 18, 2022 15:48
Ansar Hussain was elected in 2021 for the Wolverton ward in Milton Keynes
May 18, 2022 15:48A Labour councillor has been suspended by the party after the JC revealed he had shared “antisemitic” posts about Israel.
Ansar Hussain was elected in 2021 for the Wolverton ward in Milton Keynes, and served previously as Wolverton’s mayor.
In posts which the JC has now shown to Labour officials, he has shared groundless claims and conspiracy theories about Israel.
The revelations have prompted the party to take immediate action by suspending the councillor and starting an investigation.
The material highlighted by the Gnasher Jew investigation team includes an article headlined “30 Little-Known Facts About Israel” shared by Mr Hussain on 7 November 2015.
On this list of “facts” is the claim that “instead of sewing an insignia on clothing to distinguish race (like the Germans did to the Jews in WW2, Palestinian licence plates in Israel are colour coded to distinguish Jews from non-Jews”.
A post shared by Ansar Hussein (GnasherJew)
Comparing Israeli Jews to the Nazis may breach the International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of antisemitism, which was adopted by the party after a political furore when Jeremy Corbyn was still Labour leader.
One bogus claim said that: “Zionists have been trying to destroy Masjid al-Aqsa (The Al-Aqsa mosque) and the Dome of the Rock for the last 50 years by digging underground tunnels beneath the sites to weaken its foundations causing it to collapse. Renowned Israeli archaeologists have confirmed there are no traces of the Temple.”
