The British Conservative Party suspended a candidate for a seat in local government on Monday after she posted an anti-Semitic slur on Facebook over the weekend.

In an exchange on the social network, the candidate, Gulzabeen Afsar, 31, suggested that the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Ed Miliband, was unfit to succeed the leader of her party, Prime Minister David Cameron. “Just can’t take Mr. Ed Miliband seriously!!” Ms. Afsar wrote. “DC has what it takes to be the future PM.”

When another Facebook user asked that she show some respect for Mr. Miliband, Ms. Afsar replied, “never ever will I drop that low and support the Al Yahud,” using Arabic for “The Jew” to refer to the Labour leader.

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The comments were later deleted from Facebook, but not before bloggers and journalists at Britain’s Jewish News made screenshots.