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The real "cancel culture" ... here's a recent JVL-published article doing the work for which few British journalists appear to have the stomach, exposing one of the fables on which the "Labour antisemitism" media narrative rests. Well worth reading:

jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/jonath…
Jonathan Freedland getting the facts wrong in a story about alleged "left antisemitism", you say? Must be a day ending with "Y", I suppose.
Freedland's source for his absurd fable about Clare Short: a man who denies that the occupation of the West Bank is illegal, and claims that settlements are only illegal "according to some". At least he didn't mix up two people with the same name this time.
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Is this someone describing the media campaign against Jeremy Corbyn? No, it's Seumas Milne's account of the campaign against the miners' union in "The Enemy Within"—an account that's well worth rereading in the light of recent events.
A high-profile documentary slot and a nominally progressive newspaper lending its support to a discredited propaganda campaign against an insurgent left-wing movement? Surely that could never happen again?
Reminded of something Benn said about the difference between Thatcher and Scargill: her faction threw her under the bus at the first sign of difficulty, his didn't. I don't suppose pundits will understand why the left won't hang Corbyn out to dry; it's what they'd do, after all.
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Some thoughts, from a sideways angle, on why the Guardian infuriated so many Labour supporters after 2015: while researching my PhD and (later) book, I read pretty much every Irish Times story on Sinn Féin and the IRA, from the 70s through to the 90s and beyond. 1/
There was a lot of excellent reporting from journalists like David McKittrick, Ed Moloney, Suzanne Breen and many others: people who'd spent a lot of time painstakingly trying to figure out what was going on, so they could inform their readers. 2/
There were also verbatim transcripts of speeches at SF party conferences, IRA statements, interviews with leading figures, etc. It must have been a great resource at the time, and it's certainly a great resource today for historians and anyone else who's keen to know more. 3/
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Entirely predictable, from the day Starmer became leader, that this would happen—the claims made by Panorama's (ahem) "whistleblowers" helped the Labour right regain control of the party. Why on Earth would that faction now want to stand its ground against their legal action?
Talk about burying the lede ... Novara has provided a helpful summary of what's in that report, and people can judge for themselves whether it's defamatory to claim that "disaffected former officials" had "worked actively to undermine" Corbyn.

novaramedia.com/2020/05/19/did…
One hint as to how solid this case may have been: John Ware seemingly couldn't defend himself against accusations of misrepresenting the facts, without ... misrepresenting the facts. Chakrabarti never said suspension should be used "only as a last resort", as he claims here.
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