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Andy McDonald: Labour suspends MP after speech at pro-Palestinian rally
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67268154?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
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Earlier this month, Home Secretary Suella Braverman urged police chiefs to consider interpreting the chant as an “expression of a violent desire to see Israel erased from the world”.
He added that his words “should not be construed in any other way than they were intended, namely as a heartfelt plea for an end to the killings in Israel, Gaza, and the occupied West Bank, and for all peoples in the region to live in freedom without the threat of violence”.
A Labour spokesperson said Mr McDonald’s comments at the weekend “were deeply offensive, particularly at a time of rising antisemitism which has left Jewish people fearful for their safety”.
Momentum, a left-wing Labour campaign group, branded Mr McDonald’s suspension “an appalling and opportunistic attempt from the Starmer leadership to silence those speaking out in solidarity with Palestine”.
The Conservatives have had their own party discipline issues over the Israel-Gaza war, with a ministerial aide earlier being sacked from his government role after calling for a ceasefire.
Labour’s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper accused Mrs Braverman of using “rhetoric carelessly in a way that makes the job of the police much harder”.
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