Rosie Duffield says she wants an apology — not just for herself but for everyone mistreated by the Labour Party over their views on the gender debate.
She has a point.
But why stop there?
So many Labour members have been hounded out of the party on trumped-up charges — not for their views on gender, but for daring to express socialist principles, or for challenging the leadership on matters of justice and fairness.
Many were smeared as anti-Semites under the party’s misapplication of the IHRA “working definition” of antisemitism — often for the simple act of criticising Labour decisions or standing up for Palestinian rights.
I should know.
Labour expelled me on fabricated charges of antisemitism — but when it came to justifying the decision in court, they couldn’t even maintain the accusation.
The party’s own representative ended up arguing that I was not expelled for antisemitism at all — but because a “reasonable person” might find my political commentary “offensive” or “abusive.”
That was not the charge against me.
The judge rightly asked: “If he was not expelled for antisemitism, why is every particular of the charge an accusation of antisemitism?”
There was no good answer.
Meanwhile, my reputation had already been trashed — nationally and internationally — as a supposed anti-Semite.
And for what?
For doing my job as a political journalist: criticising party decisions and exposing injustice.
Rosie Duffield is right to demand an apology. But Labour’s leadership owes a great many more people that same courtesy — and much more.
- It owes apologies to the socialists who were expelled for holding to Labour’s founding principles.
- It owes apologies to the members vilified for standing up against injustice in Israel-Palestine.
- It owes apologies to every honest activist who was treated as collateral damage in the party’s ruthless purge of its own heart and soul.
Until those apologies are made — and until genuine restitution is offered — the Labour Party under Keir Starmer cannot claim to stand for justice, fairness, or equality.
It stands only for power — and the suppression of those who dare to challenge it.
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Labour owes an apology to more than just Rosie Duffield
Rosie Duffield says she wants an apology — not just for herself but for everyone mistreated by the Labour Party over their views on the gender debate.
She has a point.
But why stop there?
So many Labour members have been hounded out of the party on trumped-up charges — not for their views on gender, but for daring to express socialist principles, or for challenging the leadership on matters of justice and fairness.
Many were smeared as anti-Semites under the party’s misapplication of the IHRA “working definition” of antisemitism — often for the simple act of criticising Labour decisions or standing up for Palestinian rights.
I should know.
Labour expelled me on fabricated charges of antisemitism — but when it came to justifying the decision in court, they couldn’t even maintain the accusation.
The party’s own representative ended up arguing that I was not expelled for antisemitism at all — but because a “reasonable person” might find my political commentary “offensive” or “abusive.”
That was not the charge against me.
The judge rightly asked: “If he was not expelled for antisemitism, why is every particular of the charge an accusation of antisemitism?”
There was no good answer.
Meanwhile, my reputation had already been trashed — nationally and internationally — as a supposed anti-Semite.
And for what?
For doing my job as a political journalist: criticising party decisions and exposing injustice.
Rosie Duffield is right to demand an apology. But Labour’s leadership owes a great many more people that same courtesy — and much more.
Until those apologies are made — and until genuine restitution is offered — the Labour Party under Keir Starmer cannot claim to stand for justice, fairness, or equality.
It stands only for power — and the suppression of those who dare to challenge it.
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