"[A] few days before May 5th, when a set of local and mayoral contests across the country would present Corbyn with his first electoral test as leader, questions about rising anti-Semitism within the Party broke into the open. On April 26th, Naz Shah, a Muslim M.P. from Bradford, who was elected in 2015, admitted sharing Facebook posts the previous year that suggested that Israelis should be "relocated" to the U.S. "Problem solved," she wrote. Another post showed Martin Luther King, Jr., with the quote "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal," under the hashtag #ApartheidIsrael. Shah was suspended from Labour, but the next morning Ken Livingstone, a former mayor of London and a Corbyn ally, gave a bizarre radio interview defending her. "It's completely over the top, but it’s not anti-Semitic," Livingstone said. "Let's remember when Hitler won his election in 1932—his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism." The chaos was complete when Livingstone, a renegade figure of the old left, who has made anti-Semitic remarks before, was confronted on the stairs of the BBC’s Westminster studio by another Labour M.P., John Mann, who accused him of being a "Nazi apologist." The exchange was captured on video and within minutes was the lead item on British news."
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