Row: Anna-Marie Crampton campaigns with UKIP leader Nigel Farage (Picture: SWNS)

A UKIP candidate has been suspended for allegedly claiming Jews murdered each other in the Holocaust to create the state of Israel.

Anna-Marie Crampton has been dropped by her party in Thursday’s local government elections after the comments were attributed to her on a website.

The 57-year-old allegedly wrote: ‘Holocaust means a sacrifice by fire. Only the Zionists could sacrifice their own in the gas chambers.

‘The Second World Wide War was engineered by the Zionist Jews and financed by the banksters to make the general public all over the world feel so guilty and outraged by the Holocaust that a treaty would be signed to create the State of Israel as we know it today.’




Ms Crampton, who is due to stand in Crowborough, East Sussex, apparently made the comments on a conspiracy theory website called Secrets of The Fed.

Sam Westrop, the director of Stand for Peace, a Jewish-Muslim interfaith organisation, said: ‘Time after time, conspiracy and anti-Zionist sentiment is revealed as nothing more than thinly veiled anti-Semitism.

‘UKIP has expelled extremist and bigoted members in the past.

‘They must also expel Anna-Marie Crampton. Such hatred must be fought at all times.’

UKIP said it was ‘appalled’ by the comments.

‘Indeed, we are confused as to why a party like UKIP would be seen by anyone as a suitable vehicle for someone holding these sorts of views,’ a spokesman for the party said.

Ms Crampton later wrote on Twitter: ‘I’m not anti-Semitic. I never said I do not believe in the Holocaust.

‘I’ve clearly been trolled. I do post on Zionism as a political movement.’