Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

OK, so you have convinced yourself you are not anti-semitic. But the
Labout Party has been jumping through hoops held up by people like
Jonathan Sacerdoti, of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, who said,
referring to Jackie Walker, a Jewish woman who was vice-chair of
Momentum until recently: ‘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.’
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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’.
In a Facebook post about the trans-Atlantic slave trade before her
suspension, Jackie Walker, the vice-chair of the left-wing Labour Partylinked
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’.
Following the lifting of her suspension the activist, who is also vice-chair
of Thanet Labour party, wrote a blog post for Labour Briefing saying
she had not said sorry. She added: ‘I will never apologise for being an
Internationalist, for holding all life as precious, for not valorising one
genocide, one holocaust, over any other’. ‘And if you ask if I think anti-
Semitism is a major problem in the Labour Party, I would give almost
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