The Jewish Leadership Council has branded Bliss Wylie’s remarks “ignorant” and an “absurd and dangerous erasure of Jewish experience and identity”.

Labour has also lodged a formal complaint with Norwich City Council's monitoring officer about the councillor alleging the comments were antisemitic.

Bliss Wylie was elected to the council for the first time in May (Image: Supplied)

The furore comes amid growing pressure on the Green administration at City Hall, which has been thrown into turmoil by the Zionism motion at the party conference earlier this month.

Zionism is the belief in a Jewish homeland and is shared by the majority of Jews.

The Green motion, passed by its members at its Brighton conference, has been described as an attack on British Jews and a plan to destroy Israel itself.

It has split the party locally, with Lucy Galvin, the leader of Norwich City Council, and her cabinet saying they "opposed" it.

Lucy Galvin (middle) with her cabinet (Image: Jeff Taylor)

However, some councillors have come out in support, with councillor Wylie the most vocal.

The Thorpe Hamlet representative, who helped draft the motion and has since called on councillor Galvin to resign, told this newspaper: “Frankly, the facts are that this has very little to do with Jewish people, particularly Jewish people in the United Kingdom.

"This is about the experiences of Palestinians in their homeland.

“The ideology that says........

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