A British lawmaker who was suspended from the UK Labour Party for anti-Semitic comments posted on social media is being investigated by police.
Naz Shah, who was readmitted to the party in July, could be charged with inciting religious hatred, an offense punishable by up to seven years in prison, the Daily Mail reports.
Naz Shah with former London mayor Ken Livingstone in Bradford, April 2015, before her election as a Labour MP. (Wikimedia Commons, goodadvice.com, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Shah, 42, was suspended in May for sharing a post on Facebook suggesting Israel’s Jews should be relocated to the US and tweeting the hashtag “#IsraelApartheid” and a quote saying, “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.” Another post called on her friends to back a poll criticizing Israel.
The posts had appeared in early August 2014, during the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas. She later apologized for the posts and spoke at a synagogue in Leeds, close to her Bradford constituency.
— JTA
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