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Vile posts by party members are revealed

September 8, 2016 10:21

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Marcus Dysch,

Marcus Dysch

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"Zio-scum", "West Bank Nazis", and a depiction of Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire drinking the blood of a Palestinian child are among the antisemitic terms and imagery adopted by Labour members who have been suspended from the party, it has been revealed.

One member posted a mocked-up image of Jeremy Corbyn doing a Nazi salute with the caption: "If Adolf won, then why can't we?"

Another likened Israel to "cancer" and described the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement as the "chemotherapy".

The scale and nature of the abuse emerged after Iain McNicol, Labour's general secretary, sent examples to members of Labour's National Executive Committee last week as he outlined the process being used to determine whether party members could vote in this month's leadership election.