Thread by @JVL_Watch

.@uklabour 1/7 Owen Jones has persistently claimed Labour antisemitism was exaggerated. Following Labour’s annihilation at the election, he wrote an article whitewashing his previous position...

2/7 Not only did Jones use his influence to defend the Labour leadership and gaslight the Jewish community, claiming it was a ‘smear’...

3/7 Jones also promoted JVL, the tiny group who whitewash Labour antisemitism. The anti-Jewish racism of JVL members and leaders is well documented

4/7 Jones even defended JVL member Jackie Walker, who was eventually expelled over antisemitism. He cynically used her alleged Jewish heritage as a defence.

He was probably key to her suspension being overturned at the time. Jones admits he is friends with Walker

5/7 And Owen Jones defended JVL leader Glyn Secker’s appalling antisemitic speech.

Secker said Jews were ‘in the gutter’, a ‘fifth column’, ‘crying wolf’ and ‘part of the problem’ for their allegations of antisemitism.

6/7 Owen Jones is also friends with with Walker’s partner, JVL member Graham Bash.

Bash and Jones are friends with Corbyn. According to reports, Jones worked on McDonnell’s leadership bid, helped craft Momentum (Labour’s antisemitic grassroots org) and works on their campaigns

7/7 As a student at Oxford, Jones used his spare time to edit Wikipedia, claiming the notion of ‘Jewish ethnicity’ is ‘a lie’ among other things.

It appears that Jones’s issue with Jewish people remained, but now he is using his @guardian platform to cover up his leading role