Here's how the BBC quoted an email from Seumas Milne to Sam Matthews

“…we need to review…

…muddling up political disputes with racism”

Here is a wider excerpt from the same email, showing the context in which these phrases appeared: https://twitter.com/novaramedia/status/1285916354747432962
“if we’re more than very occasionally using disciplinary action against Jewish members for antisemitism, something’s going wrong, and we’re muddling up political disputes with racism. Quite apart from this specific case, I think going forward we need to review"...
The programme did not mention the fact that Milne was specifically raising concerns over the possibility of Jewish party members facing disciplinary action for antisemitism...
This essential context was completely omitted in the interview segment with Matthews, and in the quoted extracts from Milne’s email. Most strikingly of all, it was also left out when the programme-makers referred selectively to the Labour party’s reply.
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