Criticised: Margaret Hodge
JEWISH women who signed a letter to the Guardian objecting to its “standard failure” to check or challenge allegations of Labour Party anti-semitism are calling for complaints to the newspaper for refusing to publish it.
Signatory Julia Bard, who is active in the Jewish Socialists’ Group, said over 200 Jewish women had signed a letter complaining about the article “Just Close Them Down: Margaret Hodge on anti-semitism in Labour’s branches.”
“Mostly the article was old stuff rehashed, and it was characterised by the standard failure to check Hodge’s allegations,” she said.
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