I’m angry about Labour antisemitism. But I didn’t scream abuse | Ian Austin

I am being investigated by the party for my conduct – and yet the leadership is still failing to take this issue seriously

On 18 March 1939 a 10-year-old Jewish boy was woken in the middle of the night by noises from the streets of Ostrava, a city in what was then Czechoslovakia. Peering out of the window, he saw the German troops marching into the town square.

A few days later, his mother and teenage sisters waved him off on a train as he escaped to England. He never saw them again. Rounded up and sent first to a ghetto, they were murdered in Treblinka on 5 October 1942. Countless other relatives were also killed in the Holocaust.

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