Mulla was reported to have posted derogatory comments about Zionist Jews.
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He told AFP that the Israeli party was looking for assurances from British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn that he was treating the allegations with the necessary gravity.
This comes after former Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone sparked fury among colleagues by claiming that Hitler had supported Zionism “before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews”.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Member of Parliament Naz Shah, who was suspended from the party last week for a a 2014 Facebook post called for relocating the entire State of Israel to the United States, resigned from a Home Affairs Select Committee investigating anti-Semitism in the party.
“Current fearmongering about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party [is] a conscious and concerted effort by right-wing political forces to undermine the growing support among Jews and non-Jews alike for the Labour Party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, and a measure of the desperation of his opponents”.
Cameron began by using a planted question from Karl McCartney MP to ask Corbyn about the Palestinian group Hamas, and the Lebanese party Hezbollah, demanding that Corbyn “withdraw the remark that they were his friends”. Some MPs have defined success for the party as gaining hundreds of council seats tomorrow, whereas Corbyn and his allies have set the bar lower.
In a bid to reach out to Jewish voters, he said it was “wrong” that they could feel they did not belong in the Labour party.
He said: “The Tories have made it clear they don’t stand up for people’s priorities”.
The spokesman added: “Jeremy has said repeatedly that anti-Semitism in any form in society and in the Labour Party is completely unacceptable and repugnant and will be acted upon, and he has acted on it”.
In Scotland, the pro-independence Scottish National Party is on course to win a majority of seats in the Edinburgh-based parliament and retain governmental power, with Labour at risk of sinking to third place behind the Conservatives.
“Obviously who commits racist acts or makes anti-Semitic statements is not a friend of mine”, he fired back.
With the polls open on Thursday morning for the London mayoral election, Mr Cameron used his last opportunity to publicly criticise Labour candidate Sadiq Khan for sharing a stage with extremists including the fanatic who trained the London 7/7 bombers, Sajil Shahi, and another extremist who said Jewish people should be “drowned in the ocean” and people who support Islamic State.
The Labour leader warned schools, hospitals and other public services face a fresh squeeze on finances under the Tories, who he said could “no longer be trusted” to protect communities. He defended the description, saying he had used the word “friends” in a “collective way”.
However, Lance Price believes retaking the capital will not be enough, saying: “We should be taking it for granted that we are going to win London – London is a Labour city”.
One MP said: “I think it’s gone beyond that, some of us feel morally something has to be done … we couldn’t look back 10 to 15 years down the line and think we did nothing, there’s a sense of duty creeping up on people”.
Hussain told Britain’s Press Association he would fight the suspension, suggesting that Jews who found his comment offensive should consider “what the rest of the world thinks” about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
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The Labour leader replied: “The points he was making earlier relate to a discussion I was hosting in order to try to promote a peace process and it was not approval of those organisations”.
