Labour MP Diane Abbott has had the whip suspended pending an investigation after she made 'deeply offensive and wrong' comments suggesting Jews do not face racism.
A Labour Party spokesperson said: “The Labour Party completely condemns these comments which are deeply offensive and wrong.Speaking in The Observer, the former shadow home secretary under Jeremy Corbyn said Jewish people "undoubtedly experience prejudice", which is "similar to racism" but often used as if they are interchangeable.
She said that "many types of white people" - including redheads - can experience this prejudice, but that they are not "all their lives" subjected to racism. Ms Abbott added: "In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus. "In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships."
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