A former Scottish Labour MP has been suspended from the party after posting comments online saying he had lost "respect and empathy" for the Jewish community, STV News understands.

The remarks from Jim Sheridan, who used to represent Paisley and Renfrewshire North, come as the party remains locked in a row over anti-Semitism.

Scottish Labour it was investigating the incident, which it said it takes "extremely seriously".

In a Facebook post, Sheridan said: "For all my adult life I have had the utmost respect and empathy for the Jewish community and their historic suffering.

"No longer due to what they and their Blairite plotters are doing to my party and the long-suffering people of Britain who need a radical Labour government."

The 65-year-old, who now serves as a councillor in Renfrewshire, has since removed the comments.

A party spokesman said: "The Labour Party takes all complaints of anti-Semitism extremely seriously and we are committed to challenging and campaigning against it in all its forms.

"All complaints about anti-Semitism are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken."

It comes as Jeremy Corbyn continues to face questions over his visit to a controversial event at a Palestinian Martyrs Cemetery in 2014.

The Labour leader had been widely criticised after he said he was present when wreaths were laid at the Tunis site in 2014 to the victims of an attack in Paris in 1992 but did not think he was "actually involved in it".

This prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accuse him of honouring one of the founders of the Black September terror group which carried out the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, who died in the incident in the French capital.

Corbyn maintains the wreath laid at the cemetery in Tunis had been to commemorate all those killed during an Israeli air strike on the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's offices in the city in 1985.

On Thursday, Dame Margaret Hodge told how the backlash against her calling Corbyn a racist and anti-Semite, and the ensuing investigation, left her "thinking what did it feel like to be a Jew in Germany in the 1930s".

Her comments sparked outrage among some Labour activists and Corbyn allies.