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                  Britain's Labour party suspends member for anti-Semitic tweets

                  Britain's Labour party suspends member for anti-Semitic tweets

                  17.03.2016, Anti-Semitism

                  The British Labour Party has suspended a member for the second time for saying Jews have “big noses” and “slaughter the oppressed.”

                  Vicki Kirby, a former parliamentary candidate, was suspended Monday. Her comments in old tweets resurfaced after she was made a local vice chair of the party last week.

                  Other tweets claimed that Hitler might be the “Zionist God” and claimed, "We invented Israel when saving them from Hitler, who now seems to be their teacher."

                  Kirby originally was suspended from the party in 2014. She was readmitted and appointed vice chairman of Labour’s branch in Woking, a town in the southeast Surrey county.

                  Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn had been under fire for allowing the appointment.

                  Several party members brought up the issue at a parliamentary meeting on Monday, the British media reported. A senior Labour leader Louise Ellman said relations between the party and the Jewish community had hit “rock bottom.”

                  Another Labour MP, John Mann, said there is resurging problem with anti-Semitism within the party, including on the left, which must be stamped out.

                  He said the recent growth of the party membership, sparked by left-winger Corbyn's leadership win, has brought with it some people with "out-dated and prejudiced" views.

                  The party has received growing criticism recently over accusations of systemic anti-Semitism. The party has already announced that it willinvestigate claims of anti-Semitism in its society at Oxford University, whose members allegedly mocked Jewish terror victims.

                  A spokesman for Corbyn said “he thinks that anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are vile, he has spent his whole life campaigning against it and will continue to do so.”

                  by Henri Stein

                  EJP