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Please read below and if you would like to join me in making a complaint about the conduct of The Independent you can do so here:
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Your interview with Maxine Peake, when retweeted by Rebecca Long-Bailey, contained the words:
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Your interview with Maxine Peake, when retweeted by Rebecca Long-Bailey, contained the words:
‘2016 Amnesty International report said that hundreds of law enforcement officials had travelled to Israel for training’.
These words were then removed with no notification to readers that the article had been changed.
These words were then removed with no notification to readers that the article had been changed.
Rebecca Long-Bailey was subsequently sacked for retweeting your article - arguably because the article available to the Labour Party to judge her on was different to the one Rebecca Long-Bailey had retweeted.
The following day you published an editorial titled ‘Labour lost its integrity over antisemitism - sacking Rebecca Long-Bailey will bring it back’.
The Independent’s editorial approval of an MP being sacked for sharing an article published by The Independent is bizarre,
The Independent’s editorial approval of an MP being sacked for sharing an article published by The Independent is bizarre,
deeply troubling, lacks integrity and goes against all journalistic guidelines.
I ask you to issue a clarification / apology in your newspaper and via social media re the changes made to the Maxine Peake article.
I ask you to issue a clarification / apology in your newspaper and via social media re the changes made to the Maxine Peake article.
I ask you to consider the impact on your profession for approving of the sacking of someone for sharing one of your articles.
I will be reporting you to IPSO.
I will be reporting you to IPSO.
