MP Diane Abbott suspended from Labour Party again due to claim that Jews don't experience racism

Diane Abbott is delivering uncomfortable truths that Starmer doesn't like

The following is a statement from academic professor Gus John. On Thursday 17 July, Diane Abbott MP, Mother of the House, was suspended from the Labour Party for a second time, having been suspended in 2023 for making statements which Keir Starmer decided were antisemitic. It emerged that in an interview with James Naughtie of the BBC in May this year, Abbott said that she was not wrong in stating in 2023 that anti-black racism was different fro…

MP Diane Abbott suspended from Labour Party again due to claim that Jews don't experience racism

She went on to say she was "weary" about being labelled antisemitic, given she has spent her life "fighting racism of all kinds."

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