Hitler tweeter dumped

LABOUR’S RULING body has decided not to back a woman to be a parliamentary candidate over her tweets about Hitler and the “Zionist sympathies” of a Jewish MP.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) decided not to endorse Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt to stand for Labour in South Thanet on the basis that she had brought the party into disrepute.

Ms Gordon-Nesbitt was selected in April, having joining Labour when Jeremy Corbyn became leader.

But, writing on Facebook on Tuesday, she said the NEC had decided not to back her over tweets posted by a think tank she set up which defended Ken Livingstone and Jackie Walker over allegations of antisemitism.

One tweet posted from the Centre for Cultural Change Twitter account asked: “Has anyone looked into Hitler’s policy on Zionism? Might not be mutually exclusive with his later actions #Scapegoating #Corbyn.”

Another tweet called into question the “Zionist sympathies” of John Bercow, the speaker of the House of Commons, who is Jewish.

The Centre for Cultural Change account suggested that allegations of antisemitism against Ms Walker were “politically” motivated by “those who seek to silence anti-Zionist voices”.

Ms Gordon-Nesbitt — a ‘socialist historian’ — also called the suspension of Ken Livingstone the result of attempts to “smear” Mr Corbyn.

In her Facebook post, she said: “The Centre for Cultural Change tweets were in no way intended to imply antisemitism doesn’t exist in the Labour Party.”