The Labour party has suspended Diane Abbott, a key ally of former leader Jeremy Corbyn, after she suggested Jewish people had never been “subject to racism” in a letter to a UK newspaper.
The swift action comes just weeks after Corbyn was blocked from standing in future as a Labour candidate after his own refusal to wholeheartedly apologise for antisemitism within Britain’s main opposition party.
Abbott, who was shadow home secretary under Corbyn, found herself in political trouble after suggesting that Jewish, Irish and Traveller people only experienced “prejudice” rather than racism.
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