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Thread #159827   Message #3792778
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
30-May-16 - 05:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
First two sentences of Indy report,

"A senior Momentum organiser has been readmitted to the Labour party following her suspension earlier this month for saying Jewish people were the "chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade".

In a Facebook post about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Jackie Walker, the vice-chair of the left-wing Labour Party-linked movement, wrote: "I'm sure you know, millions more Africans were killed in the African Holocaust and their oppression continues today on a global scale in a way it doesn't for Jews...and many Jews (my ancestors too) were the chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade which is of course why there were so many early synagogues in the Caribbean. "

Final two sentences,
"Jonathan Sacerdoti, of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, said: "If the Labour Party has truly readmitted a member who publicly subscribes to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of Jews financing and causing the slave trade, their ongoing inquiry into anti-Semitism can barely be taken seriously."

He added that for the Labour Party to readmit people who spread "malicious myths" about Jews "tells us that anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is becoming institutional"."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/anti-semitism-row-momentum-organiser-jackie-walker-readmitted-to-labour-party-following-racism-a7053966.html