The meeting in which Ali claimed Israel had allowed Hamas to inflict its October attack was also attended by Grahm Jones. Labour figures are understood to believe a Labour councillor leaked the recording to the Mail newspapers.
In a recording leaked to the Mail on Sunday, Ali was heard saying: “The Egyptians are saying that they warned Israel 10 days earlier … Americans warned them a day before [that] … there’s something happening. They deliberately took the security off, they allowed … that massacre that gives them the green light to do whatever they bloody want.”
But after 36 hours, and more leaked recordings from the Daily Mail, his position as a Labour candidate became untenable. In another recording, Ali said “people in the media from certain Jewish quarters” were “giving crap” about the MP Andy McDonald, who was suspended by Labour after he used the controversial phrase “between the river and the sea” in a speech during a rally.
The paper said Ali had claimed that Israel planned to “get rid of [Palestinians] from Gaza” and “grab” some of the land.
Now another leaked recording, published by the rightwing political news website Guido Fawkes, allegedly has Jones telling the group: “Fucking Israel again.”
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