Labour's candidate for Finchley and Golders Green has said she "used the wrong word" when she said the party's antisemitism crisis had been "weaponised".
Sara Conway, who is hoping to take the marginal seat from Tory Mike Freer, told the Jewish News the argument over the problem had been "whipped up".
"You can’t weaponise without there being a problem but this issue has been weaponised by certain media commentators. I don’t mean necessarily in the community," she told the paper.
On Twitter, she clarified on Thursday: "I used the wrong word by saying weaponised. I was referring to Far Right commentators particularly on Twitter who use this issue as a political football to create polarisation and division.
