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Friends With Benefits: Antisemites and the Neturei Karta
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Councillor Mushtaq Mughal, who chairs the Labour Group at Newham Council is facing calls for suspension for sharing controversial social media posts which go back to 2016 and 2014. In one post Mughal endorsed a video link of the Neturei Kerta with the caption: ‘Israel is govern by Zyonist not by Jews revealed by Jewish Rabbi [sic]’.
It is not the first time antisemites of the Islamist variety have sought to legitimise their own desire to see Israel disappear by endorsing the Neturei Kerta. They are a ‘a big segment of Jews opposing the Zionist entity’ gushed Yusuf Al Qardawi, an influential Sunni cleric affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. This is somewhat of an exaggeration, for the Neturei Karta number at most several thousand worldwide. Members of the sect believe that the Jewish people have no right to self-determination until the arrival of the Messiah and are notorious for their feverish agitati
Mr Philipps said: Councillor Mughal appears to have promoted a series of antisemitic posts via his Facebook account. It is therefore astonishing that presented with this evidence the Labour Party have failed to suspend Cllr Mughal while their investigations take place.
He added an investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission made clear the Labour Party must live up to its commitment of zero-tolerance of antisemitism. We are uncertain why they are failing to do that in this instance. We urge an immediate suspension and a full investigation into what appears to be an endemic culture of anti-Jewish racism among the Labour Group on Newham Council, he said.