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Long suspended Labour activist Jackie Walker will NOT face any antisemitism charges

Exclusive: Claims against Ms Walker pre-date a change in the Labour rule book that created specific regulations relating to Jew-hate

March 26, 2019 12:08
Jackie Walker
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Long-suspended Labour activist Jackie Walker will not face any antisemitism charges at her disciplinary hearing, which finally began today.

Three years after she was first suspended for claiming "many Jews" were involved in the African slave trade, around 50 activists gathered on Tuesday outside the Deptford Lounge in south-east London for the start of the hearing into Ms Walker, which could see her expelled from the party.

She was again suspended in October 2016 after saying Holocaust Memorial Day should include other genocides – which it does - and that she could not find a definition of antisemitism she could work with.

Ms Walker's hearing - which began on the anniversary of the Enough Is Enough protests outside Parliament - has been cited by many Jewish Labour activists as yet another test of how seriously Jeremy Corbyn is about ending his party's reputation for enabling Jew-hatred.