The state of the so called "labour" party where someone has to apologise for calling a genocide a genocide.
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Labour Friends of Genocide
I wish people started voting for the smaller parties
A Jewish Labour Movement spokesperson said: “Kate Osamor’s original actions and non-apology were disgraceful and smeared the memory of all those who died in the Holocaust and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Darfur, Rwanda and Bosnia, as commemorated by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. It is right that, as we understand, she has received a formal written warning from the Labour party.
This is warped. They are trivialising if not ignoring the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Not to mention trivializing the Holocaust by using it cynically like this
Bizarre day where both Kate Osamor and Natalie Elphicke (re)join the PLP.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Kate Osamor has had the Labour whip restored after an internal investigation was conducted into her comments on Holocaust Memorial Day.
The MP for Edmonton apologised for sending her local party members a message saying Gaza should be remembered as a genocide on the eve of the memorial day.
Osamor, a former shadow development secretary, had said there was an “international duty” to remember the victims of the Holocaust, as well as “more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and now Gaza”.
The Guardian understands Osamor was administratively suspended from the party shortly after her comments came to light, and has been given a formal written warning.
A senior Labour figure had questioned the timing of her readmission, claiming the whips’ office had ignored outstanding complaints that had been made to the party.
“However, it only highlights the outrage that is the leadership’s disgraceful mistreatment of Diane Abbott, who has now been suspended from the parliamentary Labour party for over a year.”
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Somebody should let the Republicans know she did this... I heard there are going to consequences.