Labour Rochdale by-election candidate apologises for ‘deeply offensive’ Israel claims

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  • February 12, 2024
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Joe Glasman, head of political and government investigations at Campaign Against Antisemitism, said: “Today we learned that Azhar Ali, Labour’s candidate for Parliament in Rochdale, claimed that Israel engineered the murder of over 1,200 of its own people, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, in order to justify an incursion into Gaza.