The former vice-chair of the influential Labour Party support group Momentum has told Press TV that the recent wave of attacks against Jeremy Corbyn by the British media amount to a “witch-hunt.”
Jackie Walker, an anti-racism veteran of Jewish descent, spoke as media coverage of the ongoing anti-Semitism accusations plaguing Britain’s main opposition party has reached fever-pitch levels.
Walker was herself suspended from the Labour party and had her senior position as vice-chair of Momentum taken away after being targeted in a similar campaign.
“I have absolutely no doubt that there is anti-Semitism; it is real, all racism is real, but that is not primarily what this is about,” she told Press TV on Thursday. “This is a witch-hunt and it’s a witch-hunt against Corbyn and the pro-Palestinian left.”
Since being stripped of her post, Walker has formed a new campaign group called “Labour against the Witch-Hunt” which seeks…