A Labour councillor has been suspended following the alleged discovery of a series of anti-Semitic tweets, including one which calls Hitler ‘the greatest man in history’.

Aysegul Gurbuz, 20, became Luton’s youngest councillor when she was elected to the High Town ward last year.

Labour MP suspended over anti-semitism row

But the student has now been suspended after the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism found a series of posts dating from 2011 to 2014 in which Gurbuz allegedly praises Adolf Hitler and writes that she hopes Iran will ‘wipe Israel off the map,’ MailOnline reports.


‘Ed Miliband is Jewish. He will never become prime minister of Britain,’ one tweet reportedly reads.



‘The Jews are so powerful in the US it’s disgusting,’ reads another.

Last night, Ms Gurbuz denied she had written the tweets and said her sister may have posted them.

A Labour spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘Councillor Gurbuz has been suspended from the Labour Party pending an investigation.’

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Labour peer Baroness Royall is leading an inquiry following the resignation of Oxford University Labour Club’s co-chairman, who said a ‘large proportion’ of its membership had ‘some kind of problem with Jews.’

The deputy chairman of Labour’s Woking branch, Vicki Byrne, has twice been suspended for posting anti-Semitic tweets. Councillor Khadim Hussain was suspended after writing on Facebook that: ‘Your school education system only tells you about Anne Frank and the six million Zionists that were killed by Hitler.’

Last week, Louise Ellman, one of the Labour party’s most senior Jewish MPs, said that not enough was being done to tackle the party’s anti-Semitism problem.

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