Diane Abbott has Labour whip suspended over Jewish racism claim

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Labour MP Diane Abbott has had the whip suspended following remarks in which she suggested Jewish people do not face racism but instead suffer prejudice similar to "redheads".

Ms Abbott wrote a letter to The Observer newspaper, in response to an article which had the headline: "Racism in Britain is not black and white. It's far more complicated."

The Hackney North MP said she was responding to writer Tomiwa Owolade's claims that "Irish, Jewish and Traveller people all suffer from 'racism'".

"They undoubtedly experience prejudice," Ms Abbott wrote. "This is similar to racism and the two words are often used as if they are interchangeable.

"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."

Read more here: https://news.sky.com/story/diane-abbott-accused-of-hateful-antisemitism-after-suggesting-jews-do-not-face-racism-12864141

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