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UK LABOUR MP SUSPENDED AFTER SAYING JEWS DON'T EXPERIENCE RACISM


ABBOTT WROTE THAT JEWISH PEOPLE, IRISH PEOPLE AND TRAVELLERS WERE SUBJECTED TO
PREJUDICE THAT CAN BE EXPERIENCED BY GROUPS "SUCH AS REDHEADS."

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Published: APRIL 23, 2023 16:07

Updated: APRIL 23, 2023 17:04

Labour party MP and Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott speaks during the Labour
Party annual conference in Brighton, Britain September 22, 2019.
(photo credit: REUTERS/PETER NICHOLLS)
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Diane Abbott, a 69-year-old Member of Parliament for the Labour Party in the
United Kingdom and former shadow home secretary under Jeremy Corbyn, has been
suspended after claiming that Jews are not subjected to racism in a letter
published in The Observer.



Abbott has issued a statement following the backlash her letter resulted in, in
which she claimed that the letter was an early draft that she had not meant to
send and said that she distances herself from the comments.  













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DIANE ABBOTT'S LETTER

In Abbott's letter, she claims that Jews, Irish people and Traveller people
"experience prejudice" which is "similar to racism, and the two words are often
used as if they are interchangeable."



Abbott goes on to write "It is true that many types of white people with points
of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice. But they are not
all their lives subject to racism."



"In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were
not required to sit at the back of the bus."


Britain's Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn applauds after the speech of Labour
party MP and Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott during the Labour Party annual
conference in Brighton, Britain September 22, 2019. (credit: PETER
NICHOLLS/REUTERS)

"In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height
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RESPONSES TO ABBOT'S COMMENTS

A Labour spokesperson said that the party  “completely condemns these comments”,
calling them “deeply offensive and wrong."



The spokesperson explained that Abbott will be allowed to sit as an independent
MP during Labour's investigation into her comments.



Several MPs complained about Abbott's comments and the accompanying apology,
according to Daily Star Journalist Adam Cailler.











Labour Against Antisemitism (LAAS) Spokesperson Fiona Sharpe issued a statement
stating that Abbott's letter was unacceptable. 



Sharpe added that the letter attempted to "reduce the racism faced by Jews to
mere prejudice when in living memory 6 million Jews were systematically
slaughtered in Europe for their race is grossly offensive."



Sharpe added "In the UK today, 1 in 5 of all Jews has suffered a racist
attack..."



Ending the statement, Sharpe wrote "Ms. Abbott is either woefully misinformed or
deliberately bigoted. Neither should be accepted."












British politicians condemned her comments made in the letter. The energy
secretary, Grant Shapps, who is Jewish, said on Twitter that "once again, Jewish
people have to wake up and see a Labour MP casually spouting hateful
anti-Semitism."



Corbyn himself was suspended and blocked from standing as a Labour candidate at
the next general election expected next year after claiming antisemitism in the
party during his leadership had been "dramatically overstated" for political
reasons.



Britain's equalities watchdog said earlier this year the Labour Party had made
sufficient changes over the last two years to tackle antisemitism.




PREVIOUS INCIDENTS OF ANTISEMITISM BY ABBOTT AND THE LABOUR PARTY

Abbott has come under fire in the past after appearing on the BBC television
show Question Time, where she had described the traditional Jewish garb that
observant Jews dress in as "costumes."



The Labour Party has also come under fire for antisemitism. The party was
previously headed by Jeremy Corbyn who has been accused of permitting and
producing antisemitism.



As the Jerusalem Post previously reported, Corbyn was barred from serving as a
member of parliament as part of the Labour Party in January of 2022 following
more and more allegations of antisemitism made against him, including by former
UK chief rabbi, the late Jonathan Sacks, and former British prime minister David
Cameron. 



Corbyn has also expressed his support of a Labour Party meeting in which members
claimed antisemitism against Jews was being privileged above other forms of
racism, The Jewish Chronicle reported.



Additionally, as the Post reported, In May 2016, Cameron during question time in
Parliament asked Corbyn four times to withdraw his friendly remarks about Hamas
and Hezbollah. Cameron said, “Those organizations in their constitutions believe
in persecuting and killing Jews, they are antisemitic organizations, they are
racist organizations. He must stand up and say they are not his friends.” Corbyn
avoided apologizing in a straightforward way for his pro-terrorist statements.



Manfred Gerstenfeld, Ilanit Chernick and Hannah Gal contributed to this report.





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