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A senior Labour Party official shared anti-semitic material blaming Jews for “all the wars in the world “.

Labour’s West Midlands regional organiser, Mohammed Yasin, was suspended last night after The Sunday Times approached the party with a dossier of his activity on social media. Labour has launched an investigation.

For more than two years Yasin, not to be confused with the Labour MP with a similar name, shared anti-semitic posts and 9/11 conspiracy theories, praised a homophobic preacher and described his former leader Tony Blair as a “child-killer”.

His Twitter feed, now removed, suggests that he was working for Labour when he made most of the posts.

Labour has been riven by allegations of anti-semitism among members and activists, but Yasin is believed to be the first paid member of staff to be implicated.

In February 2016 Yasin shared a post from the Lord Dreadnought site, headlined with a quote from the actor Mel Gibson, “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” Gibson made the remarks after being arrested for driving under the influence, according to a 2006 police report. Attacking “Zionist madness “, the post showed two people laughing uproariously at the suggestion that anyone else could be to blame, in the line “when someone tells me it’s not the Jews “.

Yasin also shared a post, “Why Israel is a problem “, stating that “due to Holocaust propaganda “ America had provided Israel with $233.7bn in aid and allowed it a nuclear arsenal. He shared a picture of a rabbi next to the words: “Goyim [non-Jews] were born only to serve us. They have no place in the world - only to serve the people of Israel.”

In January 2016 he shared a video on the “Rothschilds, the world’s most wicked and wealthiest family” and in 2015 shared a cartoon showing the BBC and CNN ignoring butchered Palestinians while training their cameras on a crying baby with a Star of David round its neck.

In November 2014 Yasin wrote that “US imperialism needs Israel to keep the masses permanently at war”, accusing the Jewish state of “genocide“.

Two years later he praised a Zimbabwean cleric, Mufti Ismail Menk, as “one of the finest Islamic scholars of our time “. A speaking tour of British universities by Menk was cancelled in 2013 after it emerged that he had said same-sex acts were “filthy”, “wrong” and synonymous with “acts of immorality”.

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