Zionist insult disgrace of Johnson rival
THE Labour candidate seeking to oust Boris Johnson made anti-Semitic comments online and promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories, it emerged yesterday.
The Momentum-backed candidate Ali Milani, 25, who is challenging the Prime Minister for his seat in Uxbridge, west London, used the tag ‘#jew’ and the word Zionist as an insult in messages.
In posts made when he was younger, he also claimed Israel had no right to exist and refused to rule out support for ‘armed struggle’ against the country.
Labour is being probed by the Equality and Human Rights Commission for alleged institutional anti-Semitism. Two Jewish Labour MPs left the party over the issue.
In July, Mr Milani deleted his personal Facebook page and all his tweets before July 2017 but many of them had been archived by the Guido Fawkes website.
The site said he made a series of offensive comments around 2012, including: ‘I want to be the President of Israel. They have a self-destruct button, right?’
He also wrote: ‘So lecturer asks the class today “nobody in this room would ever want to go to war right?” My hand rises. “Who?” Me: “Israel”.’
He also claimed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America were ‘false flag’ operations, suggesting the US government was behind them.
Mr Milani was yesterday forced to apologise for the posts, saying: ‘I made some remarks I’m deeply embarrassed by and have unreservedly apologised for.’
He told LBC Radio: ‘I tweeted a number of things that were anti-Semitic when I was between the age of 16 and 17… everything from tropes and jokes that were deeply inappropriate, anti-Semitic and wrong.
‘There are mistakes I’ve made but I feel a test of character is being able to reach out and apologise.’