Anger as Labour suspends Abbott over race remarks
Diane Abbott speaking during a Stand Up to Racism taking the knee event outside Downing Street in London in solidarity with England players Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka. Picture date: Saturday July 17, 2021.
LABOUR’S action against Diane Abbott is “ungrounded,” Jewish campaigners said today after the prominent leftwinger was suspended from the party over a letter about racism that she had published in a Sunday newspaper.
The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP has had the Labour whip withdrawn or suggesting in her letter, which appeared in the Observer, that Jewish, Irish and Traveller people are not subject to the same racism that others face “all their lives.”
Most criticism from public figures and in online posts called her claim anti-semitic.
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