We, Helen Marks and Rica Bird, are the two women at the centre of the alleged antisemitic incident referred to in a recent Guardian letter (Questions raised about BBC Panorama episode on Labour and antisemitism, 17 February).
One of us is alleged to have asked Ben Westerman, a Jewish investigator from the Labour party, “Are you from Israel?” – an example, according to the Panorama programme broadcast in July 2019, of “the very antisemitism he’d been investigating”.
