The Liberal Democrat running to become MP for Luton South has been dramatically suspended by the party after a MailOnline investigation revealed that he made a series of disturbing anti-Semitic posts on social media.

Ashuk Ahmed, 51 – who was given an award at the House of Lords for ‘inspirational role models for British Muslims’ – will no longer contest the seat, a Liberal Democrat spokesman confirmed.

Mr Ahmed posted a series of posts comparing Jews to Nazis, suggesting that Zionists controlled ‘half the world’ and claiming that Labour and the Conservatives were controlled by ‘Zionist paymasters’.

Among the offensive posts and shares, which were made in 2014, were images of the Israeli prime minister eating children and the slogan, ‘blood sucking leech’.

On one occasion, he wrote: ‘Zionists control half the world, we are the other half. So let’s make a lot more noise.’ He also suggested that the Labour and Conservative parties are controlled by ‘Zionist paymasters’.

Mr Ahmed also shared a video made by an extreme anti-Semitic group AshkeNazi, which claims to ‘expose… the current takeover of the United States by the Jewish Ashkenazi tribe’.

Mr Ahmed, a community worker who was awarded an MBE in the 2009 Queen’s birthday honours in recognition of his services to young people, also spread the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that ISIS was created by ‘Jewish media and their gentile pawns’ in order to ‘justify more slaughter’.

 Ashuk Ahmed, 51 – who was given an award at the House of Lords for ‘inspirational role models for British Muslims’ – will no longer contest the seat after a series of anti-Semitic posts were discovered, a Liberal Democrat spokesman confirmed

Mr Ahmed shared posts comparing Jews to Nazis, suggesting that Zionists controlled ‘half the world’ and claiming that Labour and the Conservatives were controlled by ‘Zionist paymasters’

Among the offensive posts, which were made in 2014, were images of the Israeli prime minister under the slogan, ‘blood sucking leech’

When asked by MailOnline whether he stood by his anti-Semitic posts and if he wished to apologise, Mr Ahmed declined to comment. Instead he forwarded a police letter which confirmed he had been investigated.

A Liberal Democrat spokesman said: ‘You sent us the email with the screenshots at 11:55 and we suspended Mr Ahmed at 11:56.

‘Mr Ahmed’s utterances have no place in the party. We believe in a politics that is open, tolerant and united.’

The former parliamentary candidate was interviewed under caution by Bedfordshire police in 2014 following a complaint about the anti-Semitic posts, which were made before that date.

Ashuk Ahmed praised the ‘strong words’ of the Lib Dems unlike – he claimed – others who will not comment for fear of upsetting ‘zionist paymasters’

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Ashuk Ahmed was suspended as a candidate for the Lib Dems today after a series of Facebook posts came to light, one of which attacked ‘zionist Tesco’

Mr Ahmed also shared a video comparing the Israeli secret service to Isis 

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Mr Ahmed also shared a video comparing the Israeli secret service to Isis

He resigned from his position on the Bedfordshire Police Independent Advisory Group (IAG) shortly afterwards. No charges were brought, however, and he was re-appointed as the group’s Vice Chair last year.

Chief Superintendent David Boyle from Bedfordshire Police said: ‘A police investigation was launched into reports of the sharing of anti-Semitic posts on Mr Ahmed’s Facebook page, but no criminal offences were found to have been committed.’

He also claimed that no ‘issues’ had come up since Mr Ahmed was reappointed.

In 2010, Mr Ahmed was given a British Community Honours Award at the House of Lords naming him as an ‘inspirational role model for British Muslims as part of mainstream society’ who improved ‘social cohesion’.

He was also named on the Independent on Sunday ‘Happy List 2009’ which recognised 100 people who make Britain a ‘better, more caring and contented nation’.

According to Mr Ahmed’s official website, he is also a school governor and a trustee for Crime Stoppers UK Eastern Region.