SNP resignation over alleged anti-semitism

A MEMBER of the SNP who helped oversee party discipline has quit the party after comparing Israel to the Nazis.

Denise Findlay, from Dundee, who was elected to the SNP’S conduct committee in October, resigned after her Twitter posts were reported by Channel 4 News.

Ms Findlay was backed in the committee election by MSP Joan Mcalpine and the then SNP MP, Joanna Cherry.

The SNP said that when challenged about her actions, Ms Findlay had resigned from the SNP, and called her views “entirely at odds with the ethos of the party”.

Ms Findlay tweeted last night: “I’ve had to resign from the SNP. There are tweets where I’m arguing that Israel=nazi should not be part of the definition of antisemitism. They were given to Channel 4.”

This was followed by three sad face emojis.

Ms Findlay’s tweets date from 2018, when the Labour Party was being criticised for not signing up to the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which includes comparing the actions of Israel to the Nazis.

Ms Findlay tweeted: “Israel with its treatment of Palestinians and latest apartheid laws is Nazi. It is not anti-semitic to call Israel a Nazi state.”

She also wrote: “Saying Israel is a Nazi State is not anti-semitic it’s true.”

An SNP spokesman said: “There is no place for anti-semitism in Scotland or in the SNP.

“When challenged on her actions, Denise Findlay resigned from the SNP. The views she expressed are entirely at odds with the ethos of this party.”