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The latest Labour MP to jump ship over alleged racism and anti-Semitism is Joan Ryan, which is curious, because it was she who was exposed as having created an alleged anti-Semitism scandal within the Labour Party.<\/p>\n
Ryan announced she was joining the Independent Group because of the \u201cculture of anti-Jewish racism and hatred for Israel\u201d<\/em> within the party under leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Ryan is chair of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), which was exposed<\/a> as having ties to the Israeli government and exerting influence on UK politics in a 2017 Al Jazeera documentary into the Israel lobby in the UK.<\/p>\n Al Jazeera\u2019s undercover reporter filmed<\/a> Ryan creating what would later be framed as an anti-Semitism scandal at the Labour conference in 2016. Labour member Jean Fitzpatrick approached a stand to ask questions about Labour\u2019s support of a two-state solution with Israel and Palestine and was soon dismissed by Ryan.<\/p>\n Ryan later claimed the woman had made \u201canti-Semitic tropes<\/em>\u201d about Israel\u2019s influence and banking, but the footage showed <\/a>she made that up.<\/p>\n
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