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Dear Sir/Madam,
The decision of the Labour Party to expel Jackie Walker for ‘“prejudicial and grossly detrimental behaviour” is both unfair and dishonest. Jackie was suspended over two years ago because of accusations of anti-Semitism yet her expulsion was for ‘misconduct’. [Labour expels Jackie Walker for leaked antisemitism remarks, March 27th]
Jackie’s original remarks, such as “not having heard a definition of anti-Semitism I can work with”, were obviously not anti-Semitic. Jackie’s real offence was being an anti-Zionist. Because of the difficulty of making a charge of anti-Semitism stick, Jackie’s alleged offence was changed to the subjective catch-all one of ‘misconduct’.
If anyone is guilty of misconduct it is those in Labour Friends of Israel who defended Israel’s murder of over 200 unarmed demonstrators in Gaza over the past year. False accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’ are the Zionists’ only method of defending the Israeli state.
Jackie’s expulsion is an attack on free speech. Rather than defend the world’s only apartheid state Israel’s supporters in the Labour Party cry ‘anti-Semitism’.
Over the past two years Jackie has been the victim of numerous attacks on social media which have questioned her Jewishness and talked about lynching and burning her. Not only has the Labour Party failed to defend her but it included some of this vile material within the dossier used to expel her, such as alleging she is “a white woman in dreadlocks”.
The expulsion of Jackie Walker is a matter of shame and we demand her immediate reinstatement.
Yours faithfully,
1. Noam Chomsky
2. Ken Livingstone
3. Miriam Margolyes
4. Alexei Sayle
5. Asa Winstanley
6. Steve Bell
7. Tony Greenstein
8. Jonathan Cook
9. Prof. Haim Bresheeth
10. Professor Dr Marco Chiesa
11. Prof. James Dickins
12. Prof. Yosefa Loshitzky
13. Prof. Wade Mansell
14. Prof. Dr. Willie van Peer
15. Prof Megan Povey
16. Prof. Chris Knight
17. Prof. Stephen Wagg
18. Kate Adams
19. Philip Adams
20. Alison Aiken
21. Salma Ali
22. Zulfqar Ali
23. Nadia Amara
24. Bonny Ambrose
25. Ian Ampleford
26. Sonya Andermahr
27. Alan Armstrong
28. Ben Armstrong
29. Zac Arnold
30. Shifa Askari
31. Susan Atkins
32. Cathy Augustine
33. David Avery
34. Clare Ayton-Edwards
35. Greg Axsel
36. David Bangs
37. Frances Bartram
38. Sid Bartram
39. Graham Bash
40. John Baxter
41. Janet Beale
42. Kevin Bean
43. John Beeching
44. Mark Bebbington
45. Jonathan Bellos
46. Karen Bett
47. Sonali Bhattacharyya
48. Peter Bloomer
49. Nigel Bowden
50. Lynda J Bowyer
51. Gary Boyle
52. Dr David Bramble
53. Peter Breingan
54. David Brown
55. Judith Brown
56. Theodore Brown
57. Tarin Brokenshire
58. Pam Bromley
59. John Burgess
60. Raymond Bush
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62. Robert Bunday
63. Neil Cameron
64. Sophie Cannivady
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67. Jonathan Chadwick
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72. Rob Clarke
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74. Mike Clayton
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