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UK Labour politician thinks Jews control US, British goverments

May 5, 2016

With local elections taking place across the country, the UK Labour Party is desperately trying to keep a lid on the anti-Semitism scandal which has been rocking the party. The struggling left-wing party looks set to lose well over 100 seats throughout the UK, and leaders are now frantically switching to damage-control mode, alternating between denying the problem outright and vowing to root-out all forms of anti-Semitism.

But with more than 50 party members suspended in recent months over anti-Semitism allegations, new evidence continues to emerge illustrating just how endemic the problem is among the party’s left flank.

And as Israel marks Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Arutz Sheva has received evidence of yet another UK Labour Party politician who made a series of anti-Semitic social media posts.

Mohammad Shabbir is a Labour councilor from Bradford with a penchant for Holocaust comparisons and vitriolic rants against “Zionist conspiracies.” His long record of anti-Semitic comments and innuendos was exposed by the UK-based Israel Advocacy Movement.

Shabbir is only the latest Labour figure from Bradford – a city with a large Muslim population where a local Member of Parliament, Naz Shah, was recently suspended for her own anti-Semitic comments. Her predecessor, George Galloway, was notorious for his own anti-Semitic rhetoric and actions.

And again, like many of the other Labourites exposed for anti-Semitic comments, many of Shabbir’s most vitriolic statements were made during a massive surge in anti-Semitism in 2014, as Israel battled Gazan terrorists during Operation Protective Edge.

In On July 24, 2014, Shabbir tweeted a picture that likened Palestinian workers waiting to cross at an Israeli checkpoint to slaves in a concentration camp. The caption in the picture read: “21st century concentration camp? No just Palestinians coming home from their Israeli slave jobs.”

In August, Shabbir again posted tweet with the same sentiment, declaring: “A repugnant new form of fascism: The Palestinian Holocaust in Gaza.”

The EUMC’s working definition of anti-Semitism states that “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is unquestionably anti-Semitic. Holocaust and Nazi comparisons are deeply offensive to Jewish people, and thus regularly employed by anti-Semites as a way to bate Jews. This is particularly true in cases where the allegations – for example of Palestinian “slavery” – are totally fabricated.

Shabbir also regularly accused “Zionists” of controlling the media and foreign governments, echoing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories common among far-left, far-right and Islamist circles, whose roots began in the Czarist forgery “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”.

On December 1, 2013, for example, he tweeted: “Why is it not being reported in the western media, do we have Zionist lobby in the press.”

On July 22, 2014, Shabbir claimed the center-right Conservative party was controlled by Jews, tweeting: “80% of Tories are Zionists paid by Zionist Lobby”. In August of the same year he claimed the same thing about the US government: “Zionist Lobby must be paying big bucks to congress and Senate”.

Suggesting Jews control the media and government also fits into the EUMC’s working definition of anti-Semitism, which states that it is anti-Semitic to make “mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.”

Like many anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists, Shabbir’s Jew obsession tends to influence his views more generally.

For example, in one of the more bizarre posts seen by Arutz Sheva, he blamed the poor performance of Bradford’s schooling system on – you guessed it – the Zionists:

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