Labour’s ‘anti-semite’ row activist reinstated

A LABOUR activist who called Jews ‘financiers of the slave trade’ has been quietly reinstated into the party.

Jackie Walker was suspended earlier this month after posting the offensive comments on Facebook.

But she was allowed back after a probe – paving the way for Ken Livingstone’s return following a similar storm. The prominent Corbyn cheerleader, vice chairman of the hard-Left Momentum group, accused people opposed to Mr Corbyn’s leadership of having ‘provoked’ her suspension.

The Kent activist had posted online: ‘What debt do we owe the Jews?’ Another user replied ‘the Holocaust’ but she said: ‘Many more Africans were killed in the African holocaust. Many Jews (my ancestors too) were the chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade.’

Miss Walker said: ‘I am not a racist, but I robustly defend my right and the right of others to speak openly and frankly about matters of grave political and historical importance.’

She added: ‘What I have suffered and the effect this episode has had on my health and, also, on my family can only be described as the lowest form of “attack politics”.’

It comes after former London mayor Mr Livingstone was suspended for saying Hitler backed a Jewish state.