Al Jazeera’s Labour Files has blown a hole in the British media’s Corbyn narrative – Peter Oborne

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  1. It’s disgusting how they vilified Corbyn. We even had seasoned labour supporters ditch him because of what they heard on the newspaper.

  2. Its just frustrating we have to keep running with a narrative, where its so easy for anyone to dismiss these allegations because “Corbynites blame media for their failure” has become a massive and endemic meme. Surely the political and media system effectively conspiring to remove an elected leader and poisoning the well for an entire wing of the British Left is… Kind of a big deal? But no instead it gets treated like some conspiracy nonsense and dismissed out of hand as an irrelevance.

  3. The authors works include “Why the West is Wrong about Nuclear Iran” “why the West is wrong on Islam .
    Now Muslim news site say Corbyn loved the Jewish really

  4. ITT: Nobody addressing the actual content, just shit slinging from people with the inability to admit when they are wrong. Bravo and predictable.

  5. Watching them is absolutely infuriating, scandal after scandal totally ignored by the media and the current Labour Party.

    Evidence bringing the Panorama documentary into question. Evidence of Islamophobia, evidence questioning numerous media reports against the left.

    But nobody cares, seemingly, because they already made their minds up at the time through these false reports and don’t want to be challenged with new evidence.

    When power creates truth we don’t live in a democracy.

  6. I’m of the opinion that supporting Israel and subsequently accepting narratives that any criticism is anti-semetism, is redirected aggression towards Arabs that’s been cultivated by the media for nearly two decades.

    The uncomfortable truth is that a lot of people in the west uncritically support apartheid and their numerous human rights abuses (according to the UN and Amnesty International).

    But to peoples credit (If you can call it that) I also think a lot of people know it amounts to little more than partisan attacks and smears against a politician they don’t like. It’s ‘credible’ people and supposed ‘moderates’, who in a craven betrayal of truth and justice are still unwilling to challenge these narratives, that are the most culpable for the damage it’s done to our democracy.

  7. I actually really like Al Jazeera, sure they can have a bit of a bias when it comes to Middle eastern coverage, but their UK news coverage was far superior compared to the BBC

  8. Yes. The anti semitism stuff was an issue but an overblown one. This is known. It’s also the past and not particularly worth dwelling on.

  9. So the right wing media who donate to the Tory party for tax breaks lied to us to get them into power..

    Tell us something we don’t know

  10. Worth pointing out that Peter Obourne was the chief political columnist for the daily telegraph and a life-long conservative voter until 2019.

  11. I remember when they called Corbyn an anti Semite because he was friends with a man who was an anti Zionist, turns out that man was an actual Jewish holocaust survivor. Then there was the laying the wreath on the graves of terrorists but that turn out to just be laying a wreath in the same grave yard.

  12. Already knew this anyway, didn’t need Al Jazeera to make this series, to those living under a rock why where you living under a rock?

  13. The same PR tactics used to frame Corbyn is being used to prop us Kier all you have to do is look at the PR strategies on youtube for all parties to see that we are all suppose to vote for labour etc, look at conservatives, lib dems and green they all have terrible PR strategies. It’s another vote for labour for a few years then back to conservatives tripe.

  14. Al Jazeera did an investigative mini series when Corbyn was in power before the anti-Semitic allegations really grew; it’s called The Lobby and it’s an eye opener. Everyone should watch it. UK politics is fucked.

  15. All you know is that if your 100% sure you are not being malnipulated you are 100% being so.

  16. So glad Corbyn isn’t part of any kind of mainstream debate any more, all of the conspiracy clowns now can talk among themselves on the sidelines, meanwhile Labour is 30 points ahead in the polls

  17. Oh god another one of these Corbyn isn’t a shit as you think, it’s all the media’s fault 🤷‍♂️

  18. Oh great, we’re back to gaslighting the British Jewish community into not being allowed to raise concerns about racism. Look, Corbyn has some decent ideas but he is incapable of understanding that some of the people on his side of the debate are racists who he shouldn’t be platforming.

  19. It’s surprising that even The Guardian who likes to portray itself as investigative, stayed mum on the issue.

  20. I can speak for the people I know who decided against voting for Corbyn and it was nothing, NOTHING to do with the claims of antisemitism.

    He presented himself as a dithering, communist inspired extreme socialist and THAT’S what damaged him. Wearing suits that your old pedo maths teacher wore in the 80s never boosted his appeal to anyone other than the far left.

    Yeah the media need properly scrutinising but at the same time, Al Jazeera. The voice of Qatar.

  21. Oborne is a part of the institutional bias and lazy low quality journalism that has screwed the discourse, Just cos he had a come to Jesus moment because the obvious hitjob on Corbyn.

  22. Who would of thought that the msm in the uk was biased
    No no not the great democracy that is the uk
    Money buys power and influence if that’s threatened then anyone is fair game
    They did a very good number on mr Corbyn

  23. Could all you Corbyn apologists remind us where Jeremy was during the Brexit vote? Remain campaign can’t get hold of the leader of the Labour Party for weeks – was THE MEDIA holding him hostage on his allotment?

  24. I mean, are we really going to pretend that Corbyn naturally became leader? We aren’t gonna mention flooding the membership to seized control of the party apparatus.

    I get it, it was a good attempt and they succeeded in moving Labour to the left.

    But they failed to so that with the general public. Was it because of the media? Yeah of course. But the media is literally the main obstacle to getting a Labour government.

    And they had no real plan to deal with the media.

    Now theyre mad because Starmer understands that 100% . Thats why he is boring. Thats why he barely says anything sometimes. Its why he is risk averse. And tries to avoid being attached to anything the media can spin.

    Im okay with pragmatism and a centrist, because the current tory government is an existential threat.

  25. Qatar based Al Jazeera looking into anti semitism and terrorist sympathising and finding … nothing? I’m shocked utterly shocked

  26. It was obvious to anyone with a brain that he was being unfairly treated and accused of the most outrageous things.

    My favorite moment of media outrage was when he invited someone to a speak about the Holocaust and they compared Israel’s government to the Nazis. At first it sounded awful but then it turned out the dude was a Jewish Auschwitz survivor.

    So the media ended up getting angry about what a concentration camp survivor said.

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