Nottingham City councilor Ilyas Aziz and former Blackburn mayor Salim Mulla have been suspended pending an investigation.

Aziz had suggested on Facebook that it might have been wiser to create Israel in America and that Israel could be relocated “even now,” while Mulla accused Israel of being behind the Paris attacks and the killing of Japanese prisoners held captive by ISIS.

In other posts he appeared to liken Israeli actions toward the Palestinians to those of the Nazis against Jews, referred to Israel as an illegal state, and made comments about “Zionist invaders.”

Aziz also called on Jews to “stop drinking Gaza blood.

“If the Israelis really wanted to target terrorists why aren’t they killing themselves?” he wrote.

The move to suspend Aziz follows the suspension last week of two other Labour figures, including former London mayor Ken Livingstone, who was on the party’s executive council.

The issue flared up Labour MP Naz Shah was suspended for posting anti-Israel material before she was elected to Parliament. That prompted former London Mayor Ken Livingstone to defend her by saying that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had been a Zionist early in his political career.

The party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has launched an independent review of anti-Semitism and racism within its ranks. He told the Jewish News that he will propose a new “code of conduct on anti-Semitism and other forms of racism” Labour’s national executive committee next month.

According to London mayor Boris Johnson, the Labour Party has become infected by a “virus of anti-Semitism”.

Johnson said there was an “ideological continuum” between Livingstone, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan, the party’s candidate for London mayor.

“They are now basically captured by the old Livingstonian mafia, the machine, the London Labour Party- that’s who’s running the Labour Party now. That’s what the Corbynistas are.

“The reality is that they have some pretty tough views about Israel and if you listen to some of the things that are being said about Israel and what should happen to Israel, in my view, it shades into anti-Semitism”.

(Source: EJP)