LONDON (PIC)– Britain’s Labor Party suspended a Muslim lawmaker on Wednesday for making an anti-Israel post on social media before she was elected to the House of Commons.
MP Naz Shah was administratively suspended from the party on Wednesday after Facebook comments she made about Israel prior to becoming an MP were publicized by a British newspaper on Tuesday.
The suspension for old Facebook posts she wrote which included a call to “relocate Israel to America” came after British premier David Cameron called for her removal and Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn called her comments “offensive and unacceptable.”
Shah was suspended despite the fact that she apologized for the post made in 2014 before the House of Commons on Wednesday.
The party said Shah would be barred from taking part in the party’s activities or participating in the grouping of Labor lawmakers in parliament.
In her Facebook post in 2014 Shah shared a graphic showing an image of Israel’s outline superimposed on a map of the US under the headline “Solution for Israel-Palestine conflict – relocate Israel into United States” with the comment “problem solved”.
The post suggested the US has “plenty of land” to accommodate Israel as a 51st state allowing Palestinians to “get their life and their land back.”
It added that Jewish people would be welcome and safe in the US while the “relocation cost” would be less than three years’ worth of Washington’s support for Israeli defense spending.
