France’s Green Party has suspended an official who denounced “Israel and the Zionist lobby” as responsible for the Persian Gulf war.
Jean Briere, 58, spokesman for the ecology-oriented political faction, was temporarily removed for making what many of his colleagues considered blatantly racist and anti-Semitic statements.
Briere, who represents the Greens in Lyon, faces possible expulsion from the party at its upcoming regional meeting.
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