The former mayor of London Ken Livingstone was suspended from the British Labor Party because of the statements he made a year ago describing the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as a Zionist.
Following the ruling Livingstone said that the Labor Party Committee suspended his membership for another year because of his political views adding that he will launch a campaign to have the suspension overturned.
The left-wing opposition party was harassed during a debate about anti-Semitism in April 2016 after the Muslim MP Naz Shah had published social media posts criticizing Israel.
In an interview with the BBC Livingstone defended Shah saying that her statements were criticizing the Israeli government not the Israelis or Jews in general.
Livingstone’s membership was suspended at that time for two years and the decision was signed by the party’s committee last Tuesday. He will be able to resume his work in the party in April 2018.
“Let’s remember when Hitler won the elections in 1932 his policy at that time was to transfer Jews to Israel. He supported Zionism before he got mad and ended up killing six million Jews” Livingstone said.
