Jackie Walker (activist)

Jacqueline Walker (born 10 April 1954) is a British political activist and writer. She has been a teacher and anti-racism trainer. She is the author of a family memoir, Pilgrim State, and the co-writer and performer of a one-woman show, The Lynching. She held the roles of Vice-Chair of South Thanet Constituency Labour Party and Vice-Chair of Momentum before being suspended and ultimately expelled from the party for misconduct.

Quotes

• [W}hat debt do we owe the Jews?
• [After someone mentions the Holocaust] Oh yes – and I hope you feel the same towards the African holocaust? My ancestors were involved in both – on all sides as I'm sure you know, millions more Africans were killed in the African holocaust and their oppression continues today on a global scale in a way it doesn't for Jews... and many Jews (my ancestors too) were the chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade which is of course why there were so many early synagogues in the Caribbean. So who are victims and what does it mean? We are victims and perpetrators to some extent through choice. And having been a victim does not give you a right to be a perpetrator.
  • Facebook posts (February 2016), as reproduced in "Labour suspends activist over alleged anti-Semitic comments" BBC News (5 May 2016)
  • Walker's claims about Jewish involvement in the slave trade have been debunked by historians.

• I came in here ... and I was looking for information and I still haven’t heard a definition of anti-Semitism that I can work with ... [shouting from audience] and in terms of Holocaust day, wouldn't it be wonderful if Holocaust day was open to all people who experienced Holocaust ... [shouting from audience] in practice, it’s not actually circulated and advertised as such.
  • At a Labour Party antisemitism training day, as cited in "" The Independent (28 September 2016)
  • National Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK is not restricted to the genocide of the Jews.

See also

• Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party