Witness in Al Jazeera film expelled by Labour

A Labour activist who was allegedly behind a Twitter account that claimed Zionists collaborated with the Nazis and called the Chief Rabbi “a white supremacist” says he has been expelled by the party.

Damian McCarthy, a former barrister who was disbarred for fabricating client letters, last week disclosed the outcome of Labour’s long-running internal investigation into his conduct.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (Credit Templeton Prize-2c Blake Ezra)

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (Photo: Blake Ezra)

McCarthy had previously featured in an Al Jazeera documentary that suggested Labour’s antisemitism scandal was concocted to undermine the leadership of Corbyn.

The JC revealed last year how digital analysis suggested McCarthy was linked to a Twitter account, Truth and Justice, which claimed “Zionists worked hand in hand with Nazis to send innocent Jews to their deaths… then worked to establish the racist state of Israel”.

The account, which has since closed, also claimed, “Jews are gassing people in Gaza” and that the Board of Deputies “actively supports racists, fascists and antisemites”.

Following the death of former chief rabbi Lord Sacks in 2020, it attacked him as “a horrible racist and supporter of apartheid” and called his successor, Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis, “a racist and white supremacist”.

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Damian McCarthy in the Al Jazeera documentary (Al Jazeera)