The United Kingdom’s Labour party has suspended one of its candidates after she used her Twitter account to attack Israel and compare it to the Islamic State.
According to the Mirror, Vicky Kirby, Labour’s candidate for parliament from a district in Surrey, tweeted, “Apparently you can ask IS/ISIS/ISIL questions on ask.fm. Anyone thought of asking them why they’re not attacking the real oppressors #Israel?”
“We invented Israel when saving them from Hitler, who now seems to be their teacher,” she also said, adding that Hitler seems to be the “Zionist God.”
“I will never forget,” wrote Kirby, “and I will make sure my kids teach their children how evil Israel is!”
Kirby had been the party’s candidate for only ten days before her suspension.
She is not Labour’s only controversial candidate. The Daily Mail reported today a tweet written by Benjamin Whittingham, Labour’s candidate for parliament in in the county constituency of Wyre and Preston North, in Lancashire:

The tweet, written earlier this year, was in response to news that Winston Churchill — “the greatest Briton of all time,” according to a 2002 BBC poll — will appear on Great Britain’s new £5 note.
Whittingham, 23, is running against Conservative incumbent Ben Wallace. Whittingham is a self-described socialist who, according to the Daily Mail, lists himself as a member of Edinburgh’s Socialist Workers Party.






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