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Labour MP Zarah Sultana told student that 'privilege' allowed them to argue for Middle East peace

Exclusive: She also said students who attend 'Zionist conferences and trips should be ashamed of themselves' because they were advocating 'racist ideology'

January 20, 2020 12:59
Zarah Sultana's tweets from 2015
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Newly elected Labour MP Zarah Sultana told a Jewish student it was “privilege” that allowed them to argue for a peaceful solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, the JC has learned.

In a series of social media posts she has since deleted, the Coventry South MP also said students who “go to Zionist conferences and trips should be ashamed of themselves” because they were advocating “racist ideology”.

Ms Sultana – who spoke at the launch of Rebecca Long-Bailey’s Labour leadership campaign at an event last Friday - also wrote that “those who lobby for Israel” would “in the near future feel the same shame and regret as South African Apartheid supporters.”

The revelations prompted Labour Friends of Israel to call for Ms Sultana to be suspended by the party and face an investigation.