A spokesman for the Conservative Party said: "Aidan Burley has behaved in a manner which is offensive and foolish. That is why he is being removed from his post as parliamentary private secretary at the Department for Transport."
The Prime Minister has instructed the Conservative Party to conduct an investigation into Burley's behaviour.
Burley has made repeated apologies to the Jewish community. The Conservative Friends of Israel said he does "not have an antisemitic bone in his body". He offered an "unreserved, wholehearted and fulsome apology" in a letter to the Jewish Chronicle.
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