“Labour is an anti-racist party to its core and has a long and proud history of standing against racism, including anti-Semitism”, Corbyn said.
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Aziz, who is the councilor for Nottingham City, wrote a Facebook post in July 2014 suggesting that Israel be relocated to the USA, the same proposal for which Shah was suspended, the Press Association reports.
Greer added: “The Scottish Greens stand resolutely with the people of Palestine who suffer daily from Israeli oppression and we stand with Jews anywhere in the world who suffer from anti-Semitism”.
Labour Party mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan, who is leading in pre-election polls, said the comments have made his path to victory tougher.
Shadow Cabinet member Diane Abbott risked further inflaming the row threatening to engulf the party ahead of key elections by lashing out at “smears”.
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn waits to address the crowd in Clerkenwell Green, central London, to celebrate workers’ achievements at a May Day rally where Jeremy Corbyn condemned anti-Semitism. “I’m sorry to Jeremy and the Labour party that I am caught up in this but it wasn’t me that started this problem”.
Ken Livingstone said: “When Hitler won his election in 1932 his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel”.
Appearing with former Conservative MP David Mellor, and the journalist Michael Crick, Mr Livingstone said: “How can I regret stating the truth?”
The right-wing blog republished the posts at a sensitive time for Labour just days after Ken Livingstone was suspended for claiming Hitler supported Zionism.
Len McCluskey, general secretary of trade union Unite, claimed the row was “nothing more than a cynical attempt to manipulate anti-Semitism for political means” to challenge Mr Corbyn’s leadership.
She added: “Anybody who says Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite can not sustain that argument”.
“Yet some progressive politicians have embraced Hamas”, he said – in an apparent reference to Mr Corbyn describing both groups as “friends” in the past.
On the controversy over anti-Semitism among Labour ranks, Ms Abbott said: “Of course there’s anti-Semitism in society as a whole and it would be odd if there was none of that reflected in the party, but I’m confident Shami Chakrabarti is looking into it and we will have recommendations to take us forward”.
On Monday, Israel’s opposition leader Tzipi Livni said that Britain should condemn “anti-Semitism for the sake of its own core values”.
“If you are progressive and you are embracing an organisation which is homophobic, which is misogynistic, which is openly anti-Semitic, what is progressive about that?”
In an open letter to his UK counterpart, Israel’s Labour leader Isaac Herzog said he had been “appalled and outraged by the recent examples of anti-Semitism by senior Labour Party officials in the United Kingdom”.
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‘What I don’t agree with is the way that the leadership of the Labour party simply has ignored this issue and not gone to any length at all to meet with and speak to the Jewish community about its fears, ‘ he said.
