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[Former London Mayor] Livingstone, who sits on Labour’s National Executive Council, said in a radio interview that he had never heard any anti-Semitic views expressed by Labour members during several decades in the party. He also said criticism of Israel wasn’t anti-Semitism, claiming Adolf Hitler had supported Zionism “before he went mad and ended up killing 6 million Jews.”

Livingstone was defending lawmaker Naz Shah, who was suspended Wednesday over anti-Israel sentiments she expressed before she was elected to Parliament last year. She has apologized over the comments, which include a 2014 Facebook post in which she shared a graphic that showed the outline of Israel superimposed on a map of the U.S. under the headline “Solution for Israel-Palestine Conflict - Relocate Israel into United States.”

Labour said in a statement that Livingstone had been suspended “pending an investigation, for bringing the party into disrepute.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/uks-labour-suspends-ex-london-mayor-in-anti-semitism-row/2016/04/28/69312b3a-0d42-11e6-bc53-db634ca94a2a_story.html