Not surprised to find this compendium of nonsense from Helen Lewis being used to justify a guilt-by-association-with-good-people (Corbyn, Ilhan Omar) attack on AOC. Her list of "alarming incidents": 1 lie, 1 exaggeration, 1 inversion of reality, 2 non sequiturs. Standard fare. 
https://twitter.com/francescalascar/status/1312884412690903040
The lie: Corbyn said nothing about "British Zionists" in general. The exaggeration: referring to a casual Facebook comment as "support". The inversion: Corbyn and Jennie Formby tackled the "slow handling of complaints" by their factional opponents. The non sequiturs: IHRA, EHRC.
Lewis herself admits further down that the "the [IHRA] definition of anti-Semitism that Corbyn refused to accept last year focused on Israel" (but suppresses the import of that fact). As for the EHRC, we're not hearing much about their report these days; funny how that goes, eh?
The fact that a false narrative about Corbyn is now being used to smear a left-wing politician in another country shows why it's not an option to simply "move on" and leave the record uncorrected. As long as the lies keep coming, it'll be necessary to refute them.
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