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https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2022/01/20/the-bbc-finally-admits-that-jeremy-corbyn-is-not-an-antisemite/ https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2022/01/20/the-bbc-finally-ad
by mandmandam 3y ago
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2022/01/20/the-bbc-finally-admits-that-jeremy-corbyn-is-not-an-antisemite/ https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2022/01/20/the-bbc-finally-admit...
> As The Canary extensively reported during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party, figures from the Conservative Party, the Labour right, and the establishment media orchestrated a transparently politically-motivated smear campaign against him. Their weapon of choice was employing a litany of bogus accusations of antisemitism to paint the lifelong anti-racism campaigner as some kind of bigot.
> The purpose of the campaign was straightforward – they sought to derail his chances of becoming prime minister and distract attention from his (widely popular) policy proposals. Their motive was equally straightforward – they rightly feared the threat that a Corbyn-led government would pose to the status quo and their own political and economic interests. Now, one of the major players in this campaign has admitted that its whole underlying premise was false all along.
It was an utterly ridiculous smear campaign.
Corbyn was popular, would have disrupted the status quo, said true things, and helped poor people; so he was smeared as an anti-semite and IRA supporter, lol. It's terribly ignorant, and dangerous, to be taken in by such incredibly obvious hit-jobs.
- hotdogscout 3y agoThat opinion piece doesn't address any of the points I've made. I judge Corbyn's antisemitism based on his own actions, of which I listed many, not what journalists say positively or negatively of it.