Richard Sanders

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Muslims are undermined when politicians refuse to name the Islamist threat - Jewish News jewishnews.co.uk/moderate-musli…

@ThePujaTeli Phillips was never cleared of Islamophobia. He was just reinstated by Starmer who shares his prejudices Labour criticised over quiet lifting of Trevor Phillips member suspension - LabourList share.google/oiZfVrEIlJuFX7…

UNCOVERED: The SECRET Plot To DESTROY Zack Polanski doubledown.news/watch/2026/may…

Phillips' interview with @ZackPolanski is problematic on its own terms but absolutely 🤯 if you know the full, ugly story of @TrevorPTweets and the Labour Party. Buckle up, this is a long and depressing story. Phillips was suspended and put under investigation for alleged Islamophobia by the Labour Party. His suspension was lifted out of the blue - a week before he got his Sunday Politics gig where he would be interviewing Labour pols. Later disclosures show that @ABarrosCurtis played a central role in revisiting the investigation under pressure from unnamed "stakeholders." The story of his suspension being lifted soon leaks to the Guardian. The Labour Party goes mad trying to find the leaker. They end up blaming and suspending two BAME members of staff, neither of whom the Party, in the end, can prove leaked the story. One of the people suspended is the only Muslim person in the Labour Party's disciplinary unit. It is effectively the end of their Labour Party careers. Now the kicker: the Guardian had been leaked the story during the Batley & Spen by-election, which, if Starmer loses, is predicted to led to a leadership challenge. Starmer is under threat in Batley because large numbers of Muslim voters are abandoning the Labour Party. Labour ends up winning by tiny margin, saving Starmer's leadership. But the Guardian holds the story for three weeks. The Guardian only publishes the story two days AFTER the by-election. Would the result have been different if this story was published during a by-election where Islamophobia was a key concern? I don't know. I am absolutely certain that voters in Batley & Spen should have known about this at the time. Now five years later: Alex Barros-Curtis is an MP after a ham-fisted "selection" during 2024 General Election. Trevor Phillips is batting away Polanski talking about his own perspective as a Jewish person. And Starmer and his Party respond to a horrific antisemitic attack by claiming its catalysed by marches against Israeli war crimes, decaying language even as they continue to supply weapons and F-35 parts to Israel even as its killed 800 Gazans since the "ceasefire" and annexing large parts of Lebanon. This whole political and media class needs to get in the bin.

@BBCPanorama has failed to reply to my letter pointing out factual errors and bias vs @PSCupdates solidarity movement in its April 20 broadcast Antisemitism: Why British Jews are Afraid. I will be submitting formal complaints. Read the letter here. jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/anothe…