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The Labour Party has received an official complaint over a social media post by one of its MPs which campaigners argue blames Jews for the outbreak of riots across the UK.
Campaign group Labour Against Antisemitism (LAAS) has accused Clive Lewis, the Labour for Norwich South, of breaching the official definition of antisemitism with a post he wrote on X following Israel’s attack on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City that killed 80 people, according to Palestinian health officials.
In the post, Mr Lewis linked to an article in The Guardian which reported the number of dead and wrote: “The link between the daily inhumanity being meted out to Palestinians and rising Islamophobia in the UK, are not unconnected.
“The inhumanity being shown to one is giving ‘permission’ for the other.
“These actions diminish us all.”
Alex Hearn, LAAS co-director, told Sky News that he believed Mr Lewis’s post was “highly irresponsible” and should result in his “immediate suspension”.
“It is very concerning that people across the political spectrum, from “anti-racists” to the far right, have fantasised that ‘Zionists’ and Israel are to blame for unrest across Britain,” he said.
“A recent report by the Community…
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