Nigel Farage has mentioned Reform’s ex-chairman made “one little mistake” by liking an antisemitic social media put up about senior Tory Robert Jenrick and his Jewish spouse.
“Robert Jenrick in government made a lot more mistakes than Zia making one little mistake for which he immediately apologised.”
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An nameless X account posted a video showing to point out Mr Yusuf’s account had favored a put up on Friday which mentioned: “Reminder that Jenrick is a traitorous Zogbot with a Jewish wife and family.”
Picture:Nigel Farage talking to Sky Information on Sunday.
A Zogbot is slang for a conspiracy idea claiming that Jews secretly management Western governments.
Mr Yusuf, a multimillionaire businessman, mentioned considered one of his staff “accidentally pressed like on an awful antisemitic tweet” and mentioned: “I apologise for this.”
He mentioned the put up is “equally racist against me” because it refers to “brown savages”.
“Clearly it was not intentional”, he mentioned as he claimed the quantity of antisemitism and racism on X is “spiralling out of control”.
Picture:Robert Jenrick along with his spouse, Michal Berkner. Pic: PA
However Mr Jenrick mentioned he calls “bulls***” on Mr Yusuf’s declare that it was a staff member and a mistake.
“You’ve spent the last 48 hours calling me a ‘traitor’ for not drawing attention to a leaked spreadsheet with our special forces and MI6 officers’ names on,” the Conservative tweeted.
“But we’re meant to believe this tweet attacking me as a traitor for having a Jewish wife and family was liked “accidentally” by “one of the team.” You should suppose we’re all thick.
“No. The masks has slipped. Likes are non-public. You thought no person would ever know. Sadly for you, the racist account who posted the tweet and will see the likes uncovered you.
“Reform should give you the boot.”
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