The comments made by Anna Turley, the Labour Party chair, on 23 April 2026.
Zack Polanski’s rewriting of history is beyond the pale. Not only is it downright offensive, but it is completely wrong.
Labour has a proud tradition as an anti-racist party. But under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, we endured the most shameful period in our history and the equalities watchdog found that we had acted unlawfully in our discrimination and harassment of the Jewish community.
For Polanski to dismiss that as ‘propaganda’ shows his own determination to court the worst of the worst into his own ranks.
Keir Starmer booted the antisemites out of the Labour party when he became leader. The Greens have now opened their arms to them. The contrast could not be clearer.