Tensions between the Labour leadership and some of its MPs reached breaking point once again this week, over the party’s failure to deal with anti-Semitism within its own ranks. Key to the dispute has been the treatment of Liverpool Wavertree MP, Luciana Berger, who her colleagues say has been targeted by a hard-left group in her local party because she is Jewish.
The latest feud began on 7 February, when Wavertree’s Constituency Labour Party (CLP) tabled a motion of no confidence in the heavily pregnant Berger for ‘criticising’ Jeremy Corbyn. Soon after, it emerged that one of the members who had tabled the motion was, according to Jewish News, a 9/11 truther who had called her a ‘disruptive Zionist’ in the past.
The motion was subsequently dropped by Wavertree but calls soon followed for the local party to be suspended by Labour HQ for anti-Semitic behaviour. Fortunately for the CLP though, it has friends in high places. When
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