The UK Labour Party has suspended a senior journalist from the party for writing about the anti-Semitism scandal rocking the left-wing party.

In his column, Rod Liddle, an associate editor of The Spectator, remarked on the virulent anti-Semitic sentiments held by many Muslim Labour members in particular.

He said that anti-Semiitsm is “absolutely endemic within two sections of the Labour Party – the perpetually adolescent white middle-class lefties, and the Muslims.”

A disproportionate number of Labour politicians recently suspended from the party over anti-Semitic social media posts and statements were Muslims.

“For many Muslims the antisemitism is visceral, an ingrained part of their unpleasant ideology,” Liddle added. “For the idiotic white lefties it is an adjunct to their self-loathing and hatred of firstly Britain and second the West.

“In both cases it is predicated as much upon envy – at Jewish success, worldwide and in Israel – as anything else. If you handed over Israel to the Palestinians they would turn it into Somalia before you could say Yom Kippur.”

It was not clear precisely which part of the article warranted the suspension, and a Labour spokesman would only confirm last week that “Rod Liddle has been suspended from the Labour Party pending an investigation,” without elaborating.

Writing in the Spectator, Liddle lamented the decision to suspend his 37-year Labour membership.

“Perhaps it is my suggestion that many Muslims are not favourably inclined towards Jews that provoked my suspension from the party,” he mused.

“Or perhaps it was my assertion that if the Palestinians were given Israel they would turn it very quickly into Somalia that enraged these new commissars.”