Jewish leaders demand newly-elected Green councillor who hailed election as a 'win for Gaza' and shouted 'Allahu Akbar' is suspended - as party officials launch probe after he claimed Palestinians had a right to 'fight back' in wake of Hamas attacks

Jewish leaders person demanded that a pro-Gaza activistic who yelled 'Allahu Akbar' erstwhile helium was elected arsenic a Green councillor is suspended aft claiming Hamas 'had a close to combat back' against Israel.

Mothin Ali had branded Israelis arsenic 'white supremacists' aft the Palestinian panic radical killed 1,400 radical successful devastating transverse borderline raids from Gaza connected October 7, past year.

The 42-year-old said Israel had tried to 'erase the legitimacy of a autochthonal population' and claimed 'they [Israelis] are not victims, they are occupiers' successful videos posted connected societal media.

The father-of-three had claimed his predetermination triumph successful the Gipton and Harehills ward connected Leeds City Council was a 'win for the radical of Gaza' - a territory helium has antecedently called a 'concentration camp'. 

He is present being investigated by the Green Party implicit his 'concerning' views, portion British Jewish leaders called for him to beryllium suspended for spreading 'extremist nonsense'.

The Greens' determination to analyse 'issues' successful narration to Mr Ali comes aft it was revealed the enactment is acceptable for a showdown with the Government's autarkic advisor connected antisemitism.

Lord Mann, the ex-Labour MP, is acceptable to clasp talks with enactment officials successful the aftermath of Thursday's local elections, which saw the Greens summation astir 75 assembly seats.

Along with Mr Ali, determination has besides been interest implicit the views and inflammatory societal media posts of others newly-elected to correspond the enactment past week. 

An investigation showed much than 40 councillors - including a fig of Greens - were elected successful England past week aft making the Middle East situation portion of their campaign.

Following his predetermination to Leeds City Council past week, Mr Ali shouted 'Allahu Akbar' and said: 'We volition not beryllium silent, we volition rise the dependable of Gaza, we volition rise the dependable of Palestine.'

Standing successful beforehand of a Palestinian flag, helium besides hailed his predetermination to the assembly arsenic a 'win for the radical of Gaza'.

However, it soon came to airy that Mr Ali has been posting rants against Israel connected his societal media for months aft the struggle ignited precocious past year.

In the aftermath of the Hamas attacks connected Israel, helium posted a video successful which helium said: 'Every azygous person, each azygous radical person a close to combat back, each azygous radical person a close to unrecorded escaped of occupiers.

'That includes radical who are brown, that includes radical who are Muslim, that includes radical who are Arab.

'Just due to the fact that they are brownish and Arab doesn't mean they don't person a close to combat back.'

In different video connected his TikTok account, helium said: 'The latest circular of hostilities started erstwhile Hamas fighters started warring backmost against Israeli occupation.

'The onshore was ethnically cleansed by European settler colonialists - achromatic supremacists. When radical wanna speech astir it you've gotta retrieve it is achromatic supremacy.

'White supremacists person ever done good astatine portraying the autochthonal colonisation arsenic barbarians, arsenic immoderate benignant of bloodthirsty savage.

'That is what they did with the Native Americans, that is however they dehumanised them, that is what they did with the aboriginals, that is however they dehumanised them, that is what they did with the Africans, that is wherefore they were capable to instrumentality them arsenic slaves.'

Mr Ali besides said Israel would usage the 'pretext of the fightback by Hamas fighters' to motorboat an battle connected Gaza's civilian population. 

He added: 'They [Israelis] are not victims, they are occupiers, they are colonialists, they are European colonialists.

'It's 1 of the past European colonies successful the satellite and that's wherefore the European radical don't privation to fto it go. They usage the limb of anti-Semitism truthful efficaciously that anyone who criticises Israel is labelled arsenic anti-semitic.'

Leaders of Britain's Jewish assemblage slammed the Green Party arsenic 'breathtakingly foolish, unsafe and insensitive' for selecting Mr Ali arsenic a campaigner and demanded his contiguous suspension for spreading 'extremist nonsense'.

In an unfastened missive to co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay, the president of Leeds Jewish Representative Council, Simon Myerson KC, wrote that Mr Ali had a 'substantial past of views which are concerning to the Jewish community'.

Accusing the Greens of 'hypocrisy' implicit their nonaccomplishment to region themselves from him, Mr Myerson said it was 'wholly wrong' for the enactment to proceed to subordinate itself with Mr Ali.

He wrote that portion the newly-elected councillor was 'perfectly entitled' to explicit his views connected Gaza, it was 'obvious that his entreaty to voters was nakedly based connected that, alternatively than the level your enactment publically espouses'.

Mr Myerson accused Mr Ali of attempting to warrant 'rape, execution and kidnap' and utilizing 'antisemitic tropes'.

He added that for the Greens to nominate him arsenic their campaigner arsenic lawman politician of West Yorkshire liable for policing successful past week's predetermination fixed fears implicit the emergence of antisemitic hatred transgression successful the region was 'breathtakingly foolish, unsafe and insensitive'.

'These matters do, I suggest, telephone the Green Party's ain integrity into question,' Mr Myerson wrote.

'The deliberate exploitation of a peculiar contented which is ne'er going to beryllium addressed by the predetermination of a section councillor arsenic a large origin successful that councillor's predetermination run is nakedly opportunistic.

'Populist policies are usually identified arsenic being adopted by the far-right. It is simply a large pity that you person lowered your ain enactment to behave successful that mode successful my city.

'Because this substance is truthful serious, I americium treating this correspondence arsenic public.

'You person known astir Mr Ali's views for a sizeable time.

'It is 48 hours since helium was elected, and your soundlessness has present gone past the clip during which - I judge - you indispensable person been considering however precisely you header with the disastrous effect of the video of his behaviour astatine his count.

'It is clip for you to halt reasoning astir yourselves, and to deliberation of the radical straight affected by your choices.

'I look guardant to proceeding your explanation. Finally, I americium asking you to formally suspend Mr Ali arsenic a Green Party member.

'It is wholly incorrect that your enactment should question to payment from his views and his behaviour.

'It is antithetical to the morals of which you boast. It is thing much than hypocrisy.

'You should act, immediately, and explicate yourselves thereafter.'

Backing the concerns, Claudia Mendoza, CEO of the Jewish Leadership Council, said: 'At a clip of specified part and fear, we request politicians who volition enactment to unafraid assemblage cohesion, not undermine it.

'Mr Ali's grounds speaks for itself and if the Green Party is superior astir dealing with antisemitism alternatively than conscionable paying articulator work to it successful meetings with assemblage leaders, enactment volition beryllium taken.'

Adding to the tempest of criticism, The Board of Deputies of British Jews said the Greens had 'serious questions to answer'.

'We are appalled by comments recovered to person been made by a recently elected Green Party councillor successful Leeds, successful which helium appeared to observe and effort to warrant the October 7 wide panic onslaught connected Israel,' a spokesperson said.

'While we recognize that the Greens are investigating this, the enactment has superior questions to reply implicit its utter nonaccomplishment of owed diligence, which includes nominating Mr Ali for the relation of lawman politician for constabulary and crime.'

According to The Telegraph, Mr Ali has not been suspended by the Greens and volition proceed representing the enactment arsenic a councillor during the investigation.

A enactment spokesperson said: 'The Green Party is investigating issues drawn to our attraction successful narration to Councillor Mothin Ali, truthful cannot remark further.

'However, we are wide that we ne'er enactment thing that extols violence.'

Lord Mann volition reportedly research the anticipation of the Green Party suspending oregon withdrawing the whip from immoderate elected councillors and improving its campaigner enactment and vetting.

He told The Times helium was gathering the Greens this week 'to sermon what they are going to bash successful absorption to these radical and besides much wide successful their rank and their campaigner selections'.

He suggested 1 effect mightiness beryllium to transcript Labour's absorption to discovering its Rochdale by-election campaigner Azhar Ali had made unacceptable remarks astir Israel.

'If helium had been elected helium would not person been accepted into the enactment structures,' Lord Mann said.

The Green Party has been contacted for comment.