Facing outcry, UK Labour reverses expulsion of anti-Zionist Moshé Machover
Asa Winstanley | 31 October 2017 | The Electronic Intifada
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The UK Labour Party has reversed its summary expulsion of Israeli anti-Zionist Moshé Machover, it emerged on Tuesday.
Machover told The Electronic Intifada that party bureaucrats had written “grudgingly” permitting him back into the party. He said they had backed down because they realized that they were “bringing the Labour Party into disrepute.”
But so far they have refused to apologize for initially accusing him of writing an “apparently anti-Semitic” article.
Machover is well known in scholarly and Palestine solidarity circles as an activist and a co-founder of Matzpen, a group of dissident Israeli socialists active in the 1960s and 1970s. He has lived in London since 1968.
The false allegation was contained in the initial letter expelling him at the start of October.
On Monday, Labour’s head of disputes Sam Matthews wrote saying that, “The Party has reviewed the matters of fact surrounding your case and the decision has been taken to rescind your automatic exclusion.”
The letter can be read in full along with other recent correspondence below.
The retired University of London professor said that giving him back his Labour membership was “the least they could do.”(...)
