Mike Tapp MP, the former Home Office minister who reported the Green Party to the Equality and Human Rights Commission over their Zionism is Racism motion, has admitted that he did not speak to a single Palestinian before doing so.
In an interview on ‘The Real Question with Shehab Khan’, Tapp, who is now a backbench Labour MP, said he does not know any Palestinians but reported the motion as he believed it could “potentially” be antisemitic.
“What I don’t want to be doing is going around drawing conclusions in something so complex. That’s why it needs a thorough investigation to look at the behaviour around it and to look at some of the language,” he said.
Tapp caused a stir when the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, accused him of breaking the ministerial code while a junior minister in her department after he wrote an unauthorised article about Home Office policy.
He has recently filmed a documentary about small-boat crossings, which he says he did because he wanted to “show people that we don’t have to be divisive when we’re talking about immigration”.
Here are some other topics Shehab pressed Tapp on in the wide-ranging interview:
What Zionism means to him specifically
Whether the Palestine Action ban is fair and legitimate
Accusations that he broke the ministerial code
Small boat crossings and illegal migration.
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