{"id":354579,"date":"2018-03-30T20:44:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T19:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/smearing-jeremy-corbyn\/"},"modified":"2018-03-30T20:44:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T19:44:06","slug":"smearing-jeremy-corbyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/smearing-jeremy-corbyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Smearing Jeremy Corbyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_100931\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100931\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-29-at-6.01.48-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"382\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Garry Knight | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jeremy Corbyn has for decades been a resolute opponent of the Zionist project in Palestine-Israel, and a steadfast supporter of the rights of the Palestinian people.\u00a0 There are many in the Labour party who support Corbyn in this view.<\/p>\n<p>Corbyn\u2019s Labour has a clear lead in the opinion polls, and the arrival of a Corbyn-led Labour government after the next election would probably herald a sea-change in the UK\u2019s relationship with Palestine-Israel.<\/p>\n<p>This prospect has sent a shiver or two down the spines of Israel\u2019s Zionist supporters in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent controversy with regard to this issue stems from Corbyn\u2019s opposition, via a Facebook post, to the removal in 2012 of an antisemitic mural in the East End of London, on the grounds that this was censorship of an artist.\u00a0 Corbyn has since apologized for not taking into consideration the content of the mural, and said he would have supported its removal given what he found out subsequently.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2016, it was revealed that the Labour MP\u00a0Naz\u00a0Shah had called for Israel to be \u201crelocated\u201d to the US and posted a message saying \u201cthe Jews are rallying\u201d. Shah apologized, saying her comments had been \u201cignorant\u201d and\u00a0\u201cantisemitic\u201d, and was suspended by Labour, though the suspension was subsequently lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Also irking these critics of Corbyn has been his refusal to support the expulsion from the Labour party of his longtime ally \u201cRed Ken\u201d Livingstone, the former&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/30\/smearing-jeremy-corbyn\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Garry Knight | CC BY 2.0 Jeremy Corbyn has for decades been a resolute opponent of the Zionist project in Palestine-Israel, and a steadfast supporter of the rights of the Palestinian people.\u00a0 There are many in the Labour party who support Corbyn in this view. Corbyn\u2019s Labour has a clear lead in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}