Labour MP Diane Abbott was suspended as a party whip after she wrote a letter claiming that Jewish and White people cannot be the victims of racism.
has been suspended after arguing in a public letter that Jewish people cannot be the victims of"racism."
CHRISTIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT BLASTS 'TOLERANT LIBERALS' FOR HYPOCRISY AGAINST CHRISTIANS: 'THAT'S RUBBISH' "It is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice. But they are not all their lives subject to racism. In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus. In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships," her letter finished.
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