Labour candidate claimed Israel deliberately let Jews be slaughtered on 7 October Azhar Ali said: 'They deliberately took the security off, they allowed that massacre that gives them the green light to do whatever they bloody want'

(Jewish News) Labour’s by-election candidate in Rochdale has been recorded claiming Israel deliberately allowed the 7 October Hamas massacre to give it the “green light” to invade Gaza.

In a recording obtained by the Mail on Sunday newspaper, Azhar Ali said: “The Egyptians are saying that they warned Israel 10 days earlier … Americans warned them a day before [that] there’s something happening … They deliberately took the security off, they allowed … that massacre that gives them the green light to do whatever they bloody want.”

And after someone at the same meeting suggested Keir Starmer was “held in high regard,” Ali was heard replying: “Can I disagree with you? … A lot of the MPs I’ve spoken to, non-Muslim MPs, feel that on this issue, he’s lost the confidence of the parliamentary party.”

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