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Labour’s new election campaign poster boy unmasked as vile anti-Semite who was disciplined over Jew slurs
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- 19 Nov 2019, 22:00
- Updated: 20 Nov 2019, 8:42
LABOUR is using an activist who it disciplined for anti-Semitic slurs as a poster boy for its election campaign, The Sun can reveal.
Kierin Offlands was given a formal warning last year after sharing a post comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.
Anti-Semitic Labour activist Kierin Offlands appears on leaflets alongside his girlfriend
He also called Israeli soldiers “storm troopers” and “Zio Nazis” while he was an officer for Southport
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Now Mr Offlands is featured on the front cover of a prominent
Labour campaign leaflet that has been sent to thousands of households - titled “Real Change for Young Workers”.
He is pictured alongside his girlfriend Aisha Malik-Smith.
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Mr Offlands has posted a string of anti-Semitic slurs - now deleted - including one in 2015 saying: “Remembering I need to hate Israeli Jews and people who think the State of Israel was/is a good idea”
Another post read: “I hate Zionism. I oppose the State of Israel. It is one of the worst thing’s [sic] ever created. To some extensiveness, Zionism is Nazism.”
Just this week Mr Offlands retweeted a post celebrating Margaret Thatcher’s death.
He was let off with just a slap on the wrist over the anti-Semitic slurs - despite a key recommendation in the Baroness Chakrabarti report into anti-Semitism at the time saying party members should avoid making comparisons between Israel and the Nazis.
Labour has not yet responded to a request for comment.