Labour MP Kate Osamor suspended over Holocaust submit accusing Israel of genocide
A Labour MP has been suspended after she accused Israel of committing genocide in a submit about Holocaust Memorial Day.
Kate Osamor faces an investigation following complaints in regards to the remarks she wrote on her web site.
The Edmonton MP posted that Holocaust Memorial Day was “an international day to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, the millions of other people murdered under Nazi persecution of other groups and more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and now Gaza”. She included {a photograph} of herself signing the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment.
The charity had condemned her “disgusting post”, which it stated was “ painful insult to survivors of the Holocaust”. A Labour supply confirmed that the’s social gathering Chief Whip Sir Alan Campbell had suspended Ms Osamor from the Parliamentary Labour Party pending an investigation.
Ms Osamor has posted feedback on her web site on Friday, which was the day earlier than Holocaust Memorial Day. She has since deleted her reference to Gaza.
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Holocaust Educational Trust)
Ahead of the suspension, Holocaust Educational Trust Chief Executive Karen Pollock had stated: “We welcome MPs from all political parties to pay their respects on Holocaust Memorial Day to the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators by signing our Book of Commitment in Parliament.
“If Kate Osamor can not show decency, respect and a primary understanding of historical past then she is just not welcome to affix us. This disgusting submit is a malicious distortion of the reality, a painful insult to survivors of the Holocaust and significantly distressing to see on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day.”
The Board of Deputies of British Jews has stated it “unreservedly condemn[s] the attempts by Kate Osamor to link the Holocaust to the current situation in Gaza”.
Ms Osamor resigned from Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet in 2018 after she threw a bucket of water over a journalist after her son was convicted of getting £2,500-worth of medication at a pageant.
