Now Labour mayor hopeful probed on ‘anti-Semitic posts’
a LaBOUR mayoral candidate was suspended last night over claims that he made anti-Semitic posts on his Facebook page.
Former soldier Sean McCallum, who is standing in Mansfield, now faces an investigation by the party.
Defending comments that got Ken Livingstone suspended from the party, Mr McCallum reportedly equated the nazi regime with the existence of israel, writing: ‘nazism and Zionism are equally foul.’
Labour MP John Mann told the Guido Fawkes political news website he had personally referred the case to Labour’s general secretary Jennie Formby for immediate action, calling it ‘one of the worst examples i have seen’.
a spokesman for the party said it ‘ takes all complaints of antiSemitism extremely seriously’.
it came as Labour peers condemned Jeremy Corbyn’s failure to tackle anti-Semitism in his party as an ‘embarrassing and hugely damaging mess’.
They said the announcement by the equalities and Human Rights Commission (eHRC) that it is poised to launch an investigation into Labour was ‘humiliating and a matter of great shame’.
Lord Harris, chairman of the Labour group in the House of Lords, said the party’s moral authority had been ‘diminished’ and its antiracism credentials dented.
The Mail reported yesterday that Labour faces a possible antiSemitism probe by the eHRC. The party has been given a fortnight to respond to the watchdog’s concerns that it ‘may have unlawfully discriminated against people because of their ethnicity and religious beliefs’.
in a letter to the party’s leader, Lord Harris said he wanted to put on record the ‘alarm’ that Labour peers felt at the ‘ongoing failure’ to resolve the issue.
Mr Corbyn said yesterday Labour would give the eHRC its ‘fullest possible co-operation’ if the watchdog investigates, saying ‘we do not believe we have anything to hide’.