• MARTIN Plaut is always tireless in his defence of the current regime in the Labour Party.

It’s only natural, as he has worked so hard to put this faction in place. But he really should check his facts before writing yet another accusation against people who think differently about socialism.

This latest accusation was amusingly titled: (We must heal the divisions, June 20). Who says irony is dead?

Andrew Feinstein, our widely respected independent candidate, a former ANC MP under Nelson Mandela, and the child of a Holocaust survivor, did indeed speak on the first evening of Camden’s Gaza week programme.

No one was arrested, everyone listened.

A beautiful programme of speakers, musicians, health workers, students, pensioners, Irish and Muslim communities had been planned for the week.

On the second night a small group of intrusive and intimidating supporters of Israel turned up, using high-powered amplifiers to drown out speakers and deafen the neighbourhood.

The blue-and-white flag of Israel waved alongside red, white and blue Union Jacks brandished in our faces by far-right English Defence League types.

Are these the “people with a different view” described so sympathetically in the letter? Somewhat embarrassing for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, which has been busy rebadging itself with the national flag too!

Camden Friends of Palestine called the police and, as a result, some of the later evening was able to continue. I myself was helping in the daytimes, when so many local people turned up to volunteer after signing our petition calling on Camden Council to disclose and divest from its funds in companies supporting Israel.

It was heartening to hear so many drivers giving a little beep for Gaza.

The 40,000 dead are not forgotten here, however much the cowed Labour Party remnants may wish it.

Last Sunday night I heard Feinstein speak on a housing estate to a keen and very diverse audience, giving us an idea of what a real representative would do.

Starmer does not answer constituents’ letters and has not turned up to a single hustings.

When out in public he walks surrounded by bodyguards, which must make it rather difficult for people in Holborn and St Pancras to let him know about their housing, their health or their lives.

AMANDA SEBESTYEN, NW1