Too Jewish?
The Labour Party's problem with anti-Semitism continues unabated with one of its councillors, Aysegul Gurbuz, a local councillor from Luton, being accused of referring to Adolf Hitler as the "greatest man in history".
Ms Gurbuz (20) a student became Luton's youngest councillor when elected in 2015 and Tweets from her Twitter account said that she hoped Iran would "wipe Israel off the map" with a nuclear weapon and also argued that her former Labour Party could not become Prime Minister because he is Jewish.
Ms Gurbuz has since deleted her Twitter account and has denies she is responsible for posting such vile Tweets, after apparently blaming her sister for others which said:
“The Jews are so powerful in the US it’s disgusting.”
“Jews cannot expect us to sympathise with their history under Hitler”.
In a desperate attempt to shift the blame on to her sibling Ms Gurbuz, who has now been suspended by Labour, explained:
In a desperate attempt to shift the blame on to her sibling Ms Gurbuz, who has now been suspended by Labour, explained:
“It was a joint account I had with my sister so I don’t know if she’s gone out and tweeted that, but I’m absolutely appalled right now.
“Where I live we’ve got very good cohesion with the Jewish community... I’m absolutely shocked.”
No doubt the Labour Party's investigation will get to the bottom of things, but either way it's a terrible situation that individuals within an otherwise mainstream Muslims family can hold such vile and sectarian views.
“Where I live we’ve got very good cohesion with the Jewish community... I’m absolutely shocked.”
No doubt the Labour Party's investigation will get to the bottom of things, but either way it's a terrible situation that individuals within an otherwise mainstream Muslims family can hold such vile and sectarian views.
