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Secretary of Labour branch in Redditch resigns after sharing antisemitic posts on social media

Alan Mason, the Redditch Constituency Labour Party Secretary, resigned on 14th October after revelations that he had posted antisemitic material online.

Mr Mason had shared comments on Facebook suggesting that Jewish Labour MP Ruth Smeeth was funded by an “Israel lobby”; the Rothschilds funded the Nazis; Hillary Clinton’s “Zio Mafia strillionaire [sic] friends in London and Tel Aviv are sucking America and 99% of Americans dry”; and Jewish real estate developer Larry Silverstein profited from 9/11.

Another post he shared referenced the “Nazification of Israel”. The International Definition of Antisemitism states that “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is antisemitic.

A complaint had reportedly been made to the Labour Party about Mr Mason on 25th June, but nothing was done and he was appointed secretary of the local branch on 28th June.

A Labour councillor confirmed that Mr Mason has resigned as Constituency Labour Party secretary and as a member of the Labour Party with “immediate effect”.

      

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