It's extremely important for Labour to take action on anti-Semitism and all racism, but I believe it was wrong for Starmer to sack Long-Bailey. True, the article she shared approvingly contained a point that didn't necessarily follow from Amnesty's documentation of many US /1 police departments receiving training from Israel. amnestyusa.org/with-whom-are-… While there are reports of Israeli police using the knee technique, this doesn't prove that US police learnt this technique from their Israeli counterparts. So it was right to ask for clarification on /2

1. Following the latest horror headline, I think it’s important to say / reiterate that being Jewish and the daughter / granddaughter of refugees makes me doubly, or maybe triply or quadruply, terrified of the proliferation and normalisation of #Islamophobia 2. That’s not to say that I’m not also very scared of the rise in anti Semitism - that would be impossible given what’s happening in say Hungary, Austria and Poland, and the acceptance of eg Soros conspiracy tropes here.