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EastEnders star Tracy-Ann Oberman to pay substantial damages as she apologises over anti-Semitic row

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ACTRESS Tracy-Ann Oberman has apologised and agreed to pay "substantial damages" after accusing an academic of having "a Jew blocklist".

The former EastEnders star, 55, said she appreciated that her comments were "hurtful". Oberman had accused anthropologist and Middle East specialist Dr Philip Proudfoot, a research fellow at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex of using an online tool which blocks Jews from interacting with him.

In a now-deleted post, Oberman - who recently appeared on The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up 2 Cancer - wrote: "So a man called @PhilipProudfoot of @FreeNorthNow has a Jew blocklist. "I've been out of the Twitter politics loop for a few months but is this Party continuation Corbyn?

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