A Labour candidate who called someone a ‘typical Jew’ on Twitter has apologised for her remarks.

Sarah Doyle, who is in her early 20s, has been accused of dehumanising Jewish people but she says she has since apologised for her ‘ill-judged and unacceptable’ tweets.

She deleted her account after being pressed on the comments, which were made when she was a teenager.

Sarah Doyle is standing for the Liverpool Riverside ward (Picture: Liverpool Echo/ Liam Thorp)

The Labour candidate for next month’s council elections in Liverpool tweeted ‘typical Jew’ in 2013 and ‘hahahahahaha you jew’ the following year.


She said: ‘When I was 17 and in school, before I was a Labour Party member, I tweeted a naive comment.



‘With the education I have received since joining the Labour Party, I now realise that the comment was ill-judged and unacceptable.

‘I wholeheartedly apologise. Anti-Semitism is a real and serious scourge in modern society, and I recognise its presence in the Labour Party.

‘It must be confronted wherever we find it. I hope to work alongside the Jewish community in Liverpool and Jewish Labour members in the fight to eradicate anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and in wider society.’

The tweets were highlighted by city council Lib Dem deputy leader Andrew Makinson who urged other Labour councillors to distance themselves from Doyle.

The tweets have been described as ‘dehumanising’ Jewish people (Picture: Liverpool Echo/Liam Thorp)

Cllr Makinson said: ‘This sort of casual anti-Semitism is designed to degrade and dehumanise Jewish people.

‘It plays on centuries-old racist stereotypes that have long been used to target and demonise this community.

‘Liverpool has a proud tradition as a welcoming and tolerant city, but our city’s reputation is increasingly being tarnished by Labour’s internal anti-Semitism scandal.

‘There is no place here for any form of intolerance, and it certainly shouldn’t be represented in our Town Hall.

‘That is why we have called on Mayor Joe Anderson and the Labour Party to distance themselves from this candidate.’

Sarah Doyle’s Twitter account has since been deleted (Picture: Liverpool Echo/Liam Thorp)

Mr Anderson said he passed the issue on to the regional Labour office in line with party policy.

It isn’t the first time Labour candidates in Liverpool have gotten themselves in hot water over anti-Semitic comments.

Norris Green ward candidate Liam Moore stood down after he was called out for tweeting that ‘Rothschild’s Zionists run Israel and world governments.’

Using a played out anti-Semitic trope, he also said Labour was ‘infiltrated by sellouts who would sacrifice a Labour government for their 30 pieces of silver.’

Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman, whose constituency covers the seat Ms Doyle has her eye on, has spoken about regular anti-Semitic abuse she has received.

Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis is one of the main reasons Liverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger left the party to join the Independent Group of MPs.

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