A candidate who posted antisemitic content to his Facebook page has been elected as a member of Tower Hamlets Council.
Abul Monsur was elected in the Lansbury ward, Poplar.
Monsur was officially elected on behalf of the winning Aspire Party, but was suspended from the party last week.
An Aspire spokesperson told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that Monsur is “suspended pending investigation” and “not Aspire”.
However they added what he does now is “up to him.”
Monsur could not be reached for comment.
Facebook posts by Monsur in 2025 included Holocaust denial and apparent approval of Adolf Hitler.
He published a string of antisemitic posts to his Facebook page throughout 2025. These included posts that appeared to doubt the existence of the Holocaust.
On 30th May 2025, Monsur posted an image of a “Zionist victim card” in which the word “Holocaust” was crossed out and replaced with “Holohoax”.
A post on 1st May also asserted that “there is NO mention of a ‘Holocaust’ in papers written after WW2 by Churchill, Eisenhower, and De Gaulle”. It also referred to “Jews gaining control of the media”.
Monsur appeared to show approval of Hitler in a post on 23rd September, referencing antisemitic conspiracy tropes about Jews, greed and finance.
He wrote: “ADOLF HITLER OUTLAWED USURY (INTEREST – MAKING MONEY WITH MONEY)” followed by three “bullseye” emojis.
Monsur responded in the same way to a comment below the post claiming that “Usury is the tool of the devil (Zionist) that is currently running the world”, and that “the main reason the Jews conspired to kill Jesus was that he was against usury”.
He also added his own comment: “ADOLF Hitler must have agreed with Islam that Usury is bad?”
Monsur asked friends to share a video of the former British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin in posts on 8th and 6th September.
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In his posts, he claims the neo-Nazi BNP was “destroyed” because it refused to take money from “Zionist lobbies” to “focus on 2 things only: (1) Islam (thus all Muslims) and (2) Not talk about the banking system (owned or controlled by them Zionists).”
Other posts mirror antisemitic tropes historically associated with the far right alleging Jewish control of the media and politicians.
A post on 1st May alleged that “six Jewish billionaires own 90% of the media” while another on 3rd October that “politicians and political establishments in both USA and UK are controlled by powerful Zionist lobbies”.
Monsur also shared various antisemitic conspiracy theories.
These included that “Zionists” were responsible for the antisemitic massacre at Bondi Beach in Australia last year, the assasination of right wing American activist Charlie Kirk, and former US president John F Kennedy.
Monsur asked if Judaism had “infiltrated Christianity” and in a separate post suggested angrily that “Europe has the values of [Jewish religious text] the Talmud”.
He also shared a graphic on 2nd May alleging that the Talmud instructs Jews to kill non-Jews, and permits them to rape three-year-old children.
Aspire suspended Monsur last week, after being contacted for comment by the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).
Monsur told the LDRS last week that he was “deeply sorry for these social media posts and ashamed of them”.
He said: “I apologise from the bottom of my heart to Jewish people in our community and in wider society.”
“These social media posts were unacceptable and I have a lot of learning to do and I will undertake training and education. I was not thinking straight and did not understand a lot of what I posted.”
Aspire told the LDRS it was not aware of Monsur’s posts, which were public and prolific.
A spokesperson said: “The party had no idea about these appalling and unacceptable posts and once informed, took immediate action.
“Abul Monsur has apologised for not disclosing this to the Party when he was asked about social media accounts during candidate vetting, and we apologise and are extremely regretful that this was not found in due diligence checks.
They added: “We are reviewing how we can improve social media checks to make them as thorough as possible to ensure this mistake can never happen again.”
Aspire increased its majority on the council to 33 seats. Labour and the Greens have five each, and the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives both have one.