
Labour MP Has Whip Removed After Equating Gaza Conflict With Holocaust
Published on January 29, 2024
A Labour MP has had the whip removed after she posted a message on social media on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day which called the Israel-Hamas conflict a “genocide.” On Friday, Kate Osamor posted a message on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying, “Tomorrow is Holocaust Memorial Day, an international day to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, the millions of other people murdered under Nazi persecution of other groups and more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and now Gaza.” Ms. Osamor, 55, later issued an apology and edited the message so that it mentioned Darfur—the region of Sudan where ethnic conflicts have raged since 2003—rather than Gaza at the end....
