Reply To: Zionism and anti semitism
The Labour Party expels Jackie Walker for anti-Semitism.
You would think it might be relevant that the article would explain that Walker is herself Jewish but it doesn’t.
That her remarks of Jewish being “chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade” may be based on her own family history in that she is descended partly from a Portuguese Jew who came to the West Indies during the days of Christopher Columbus and a female slave, who converted to Judaism on marriage but the article omits that context.
She herself self-identifies as Jewish, saying, , “I certainly wouldn’t call myself an anti-Semite. I’m Jewish and my partner is Jewish.”
Yet it is her Jewish critics who deny her Jewishness, applying criteria that Israel itself ignores, regards the Law of Return.