Lord Austin calls on public to boycott Rowley Regis restaurant over anti-semitic messages
A former Black Country MP has urged people to boycott a curry house after anti-semitic messages were posted on its social media account.
West Midlands Police also said it is investigating messages posted on The Rowley Village restaurant's account on X (formerly Twitter).
Over the past week, The Rowley Village's account has posted a number of messages accusing 'mega-rich Jews' of being 'paedophiles and child rapists' and 'worse than mad animals'.
It also praised terror group Hamas as 'freedom fighters'.
The messages have been condemned by former Black Country MP and campaigner against anti-semitism, Lord Austin.
He said 'decent people' would no longer use the restaurant in Portway Road, Rowley Regis.
The restaurant's Twitter account has now been suspended.
But Moin Uddin, owner of the restaurant, said his posts had been misunderstood and taken out of context.
One of the restaurant's posts claimed that "Jews will protect Jews", and another said "paedophile list are almost all Jews, mega rich and influential". A post on Friday said: "mega-rich Jewish people want British people to see their dirty children raped."
Yesterday the account posted a message saying: "Why don't you ask the Met Police to make a new law, you the Jewish population, because you lot getting away with murder so long that most of you think you own Britain". It also posted a message describing Hamas as 'brave resistance forces' and said it was proud of them.
Lord Austin, the former Dudley North MP Ian Austin, said: "People in the Black Country will be appalled to see a local restaurant publishing racist material and support for a proscribed terrorist organisation.
"Decent people in the Black Country will never eat there again.
"It's absolutely right that the police are investigating."
West Midlands Police said: "We’re aware of concerns about a number of social media posts which express support for a proscribed organisation. We are carrying out inquiries."
Mr Uddin, who has been running the restaurant for 34 years, said the people who had taken offence at his message had misunderstood the point he was trying to get across, and apologised for not making his position more clear.
"I have been fighting bigotry all my life," he said. "I have got lots of friends who are Jewish, and I love them all."
He said he felt that the Jewish community had not done enough to condemn a wealthy Jewish paedophile.
