The lawmaker has since apologized for writing that while Jews and other white minorities “undoubtedly experience prejudice... similar to racism... [but] they are not all their lives subject to racism.”
criticizing claims that racism “only affects people of colour,” the lawmaker wrote that while Jews and other white minorities “undoubtedly experience prejudice... similar to racism... [but] they are not all their lives subject to racism.
” She added: “In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and [Romani] 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.” The letter sparked widespread backlash from Jewish groups and Labour leaders.
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