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A SCOTS Labour councillor has been suspended by the party over alleged anti-Semitic comments made on an online blog.

Terry Kelly, a member of Renfrewshire Council is now an the centre of an internal investigation as the racism row within the party deepens across the UK.

The action emerged this morning as it emerged a Labour Councillor in Newport in Wales was also suspended for allegedly racist comments made on social media.

A Scottish Labour spokesman said: "Terry Kelly has been suspended from the Labour Party pending an investigation.”

The suspensions follows the row which engulfed former London mayor Ken Livingstone who claimed Hitler supported Zionism and Jewish nationalism.

He was suspended by party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

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On his blog, Terry Kelly​, 67,​ describes Livingstone's comments as "bona fide" and also rants about the "Jewish lobby" which he accuses of trying to rig the Oscars.

In the blog, Kelly also criticised the Israeli government's actions in Gaza, saying: "This is being done by the survivors of the Holocaust, it beggars belief that the Jewish people who suffered so much could treat innocent children this way but that’s what they are doing.

"There must be millions of Jews all around the world who abhor what Israel is doing, why don’t we hear their voices, when will they stand up and shout ‘enough’?"

​Several other comments are also made about Jews and Israel which are understood to be part of the Labour investigation.

It's not the first time Kelly has come under fire for comments made online.

Last November he labelled a member of the public an “idiot”, a “wannabe Nazi” a “racist” and told him to wear a “white hood” during a heated Facebook spat.

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And last March he faces calls to resign after an online comment saying he wouldn't let social workers “look after my dug.’”

The suspension came before David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn have exchanged verbal blows in a furious House of Commons spat over anti-Semitism, as the Prime Minister demanded that the Labour leader withdraw a previous description of Hamas and Hezbollah as "friends".

Mr Corbyn insisted that "I absolutely do not approve of those organisations" and said that Mr Cameron should follow his lead in launching an inquiry into racism within his own party.

In exchanges on the eve of crucial elections taking place across the UK, Mr Corbyn accused the campaign of Conservative candidate for London mayor Zac Goldsmith of "systematically smearing" his Labour rival Sadiq Khan.

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