Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn – a close ally of party veteran Livingstone – said in a statement that he would propose a new code of conduct explicitly banning anti-semitism and other forms of racism.
Advertisement
The move to suspend Aziz follows the suspension last week of two other Labour figures, including former London mayor Ken Livingstone, who was on the party’s executive council.
“It is not fair on ordinary Labour Party members, some of whom have spent a lifetime fighting racism and anti-semitism, who must be shocked to get up this morning and hear you insinuate the Labour Party is riddled with anti-semitism”.
Following threats by hard-Left supporters of Mr Livingstone and Mr Corbyn, Mr Mann said: “I’ve had a number of highly precise threats of violence”.
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.
Blackburn councillor Salim Mulla was also suspended after comments he reportedly made describing “Zionist Jews” as “a disgrace to humanity”.
“The idea that there is an anti-Semitic crisis within the Labour Party is absolutely offensive but it is being used in order to challenge Jeremy Corbyn”, he told Pienaar’s Politics on BBC Radio 5 Live.
The UK Labor party secretly suspended 50 of it’s members on Monday night for anti-Semitic and racist comments amid a whirlwind of controversy according to The Telegraph.
‘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.
But Labour MP Chris Bryant, the shadow (British opposition) leader in the House of Commons, said, “I’m sick and exhausted of people trying to explain it away and, yes, I’m talking to you Ken Livingstone”. “We are going to restore reputation, to put ourselves on a sound footing so everyone knows they are welcome in our party and root out any form of racism”.
“Israel can take criticism from time to time – and as an opposition leader I too criticize our government’s current policies – But it certainly cannot take and will not stand any anti-Semitism or the denial of it’s right to exist, ” she writes.
Labour legislator Diane Abbott said Sunday the party is being unfairly attacked by its political enemies.
The anti-Semitism row within the Labour Party erupted when Bradford West MP Naz Shah was suspended on Wednesday for comments she made about Israel.
On his BBC breakfast show, Andrew Marr said the inquiry shows that anti-semitism has become an institutional problem for the Labour Party.
Advertisement
“I think it is a very small element within the Labour Party and probably a small element in wider society as well”.
