The recording obtained by LBC radio, revealed Mr Willsman, a senior member of the National Executive Committee (NEC), saying the Israeli Embassy has “organised” 68 Rabbis to lie about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Mr Willsman was recorded in January during a meeting with the American-Israeli author Tuvia Tenenbom, who was in the UK to write a book about Britain. He can be heard saying: “One of these things about anti-Semitism is that they’re using that to whip people up.

“And they’ll use anything, you know, any lies. All types of lies and they just whip it up.

“I’ll tell you what, and this is off the record, it’s almost certain who is behind all this anti-Semitism against Jeremy.

“Almost certainly it was the Israeli Embassy because they caught somebody in the Labour Party.

“It turns out they were an agent in the Israeli Embassy.

“The thing is the people that are in the Labour Party doing it are people with their links.

“One of them works indirectly for the Israeli Embassy so obviously, you know, I wouldn’t want to be bothered to find out who it is but my guess would be that they are the ones whipping it up all this time.”

He added: “In the Guardian, not long ago, we had 68 Rabbis obviously organised by the Israeli Embassy.

“68 Rabbis saying anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is widespread and severe.

Almost certainly it was the Israeli Embassy because they’ve got somebody in the Labour Party

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“Widespread and severe. Is 70 out of 600,000 widespread and severe?

“In kilometres from here to London, it’s 70km. Do you know what 600,000km is? 14 times around the whole world.

“So they’re saying from here to London it’s widespread and severe compared to 14 times around the whole world.

“That is f*****g rubbish they’re coming out with.”

Jeremy Corbyn was the subject of a fierce attack by Labour’s former Children’s Minister Dame Margaret Hodge last year.

Responding to Mr Willsman’s claim, Dame Margaret tweeted: “This vile antisemitic diatribe from Willsman is sickening. He has got to go now. It will be a litmus test of the Labour Party’s disciplinary process to see if swift action is taken and not the usual fudge.”

A Labour Party spokesperson said: “Peter Willsman has been suspended from the Labour Party, pending investigation.”

Mr Willsman received the suspension letter earlier this morning. He will not be able to attend NEC meetings or perform any other functions as a member of the NEC while suspended from the Party.

It comes as the Equality and Human Rights Commission announced this week it has launched a formal probe into whether the Labour Party “unlawfully discriminated against harassed or victimised people because they are Jewish”.

The ongoing issue has dogged the Labour Party for months, with leader Jeremy Corbyn accused of failing to tackle the problem adequately.

A statement issued by the Commission said: “We are pleased that The Labour Party has committed to co-operate fully with this investigation.

“We contacted Labour after receiving a number of complaints about allegations of anti-Semitism in the Party.

“We have carefully considered the response we received from the Party and have now opened a formal investigation under section 20 of the Equality Act 2006 to further examine the concerns.”

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