Lib Dem leader sacks parliamentary candidate for ‘anti-Semitism’

‘Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron says he has sacked a parliamentary candidate and former MP over comments deemed “deeply offensive, wrong and anti-Semitic.”
David Ward served as a Lib Dem MP for Bradford East from 2010 to 2015 and had been due to run again in the snap general election on June 8.
Farron confirmed the dismissal at a rally in St. Albans on Wednesday shortly after…
…In 2013 Ward was suspended for three months after calling Israel an “apartheid regime.”
Ward refused to apologize for his use of the term.
Responding to news of his sacking, Ward told the Guardian: “The anti-Semitic thing is a nonsense.”
“It is just used, it’s a well-known tactic. How do you avoid conversation or any criticism about Israel? Just say people are anti-Semitic. I am certainly not anti-Semitic.”’
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