Shneur Odze
English politician
Shneur Zalman Odze (born 3 March 1981) is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and UK Independence Party (UKIP) politician.
Political career
Odze was elected as a Conservative Party councillor for the New River ward on Hackney London Borough Council in 2002. He resigned from the council in 2004 when he moved to Salford. He was a Conservative candidate in Bury council elections in 2004 and 2006 (Sedgley ward) and then in the Salford City Council elections in 2007, in Kersal ward which had until then been a safe Labour ward with Conservatives a distant third, where he lost by 34 votes (1.35%), 2008 and 2010 . He stood for UKIP in the 2012 and 2014 Salford City Council election.
Odze was a UKIP candidate for the North West England in the European Election 2014. During the campaign, he declined to shake hands with female voters due to his religious beliefs, which prohibit physical contact with any woman other than his wife. One of the party's regional organisers resigned in protest.
In 2014 he organised a group of people including some Israelis to travel to Bradford in protest after George Galloway declared the city an "Israel-free zone".
Odze helped to set up the "Friends of Israel in UKIP", the logo of which featured a pound sign (the logo of UKIP at the time) in the centre of a star of David.
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