Thread by @LabourAgainstAS

Brighton @UKLabour member calls on local party to 'march' on local synagogue:
- Call made to protest against suspension of fellow member for posts about the 'Israeli bloodline' & claims Israel was carrying out 'a genocide'
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A Labour member in Brighton suggested that the local party “march to" a local Synagogue to protest against the suspension of a fellow Labour party member over alleged antisemitism, with an MP calling on the police to investigate her for "incitement".
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Amanda Bishop was writing in the Brighton and Hove Labour party forum Facebook group in response to news that local council candidate Alex Braithwaite had been suspended from the party.
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@EuanPhilipps, spokesperson for @LabourAgainstAS, called for Ms Bishop to be "immediately expelled, to show that this kind of incitement to racial violence has no place in British politics.
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“The Labour Party in Brighton has been shown to have a deep-rooted and longstanding problem with antisemitism.”
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“It is about time Jeremy Corbyn got a grip and placed the city’s Labour branches in special measures, before we find ourselves talking about real acts of racial violence being committed."
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