{"id":374837,"date":"2018-08-25T15:06:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T14:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-corbyn-defends-remarks-criticizing-zionists\/"},"modified":"2018-08-25T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T14:06:22","slug":"presstv-corbyn-defends-remarks-criticizing-zionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-corbyn-defends-remarks-criticizing-zionists\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV- Corbyn defends remarks criticizing &#8216;Zionists&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Leader of the United Kingdom\u2019s Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has defended his remarks in 2013 in which he criticized Zionists living in Britain for not understanding &#8220;the English irony&#8221; as much as a non-British ambassador of Palestine did.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Corbyn issued a statement late on Friday saying his use of the word Zionist\u00a0at the time was not meant to offend the Jewish community and should not be viewed as anti-Semite, a practice seen by the Jews as racist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am now more careful with how I might use the term \u2018Zionist\u2019 because a once self-identifying political term has been increasingly hijacked by anti-Semites as code for Jews,\u201d said Corbyn, adding that he had used the term Zionist \u201cin the accurate political sense and not as a euphemism for Jewish people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During his speech to the Palestinian Return Center in 2013, Corbyn criticized the \u201cZionists\u201d for not being educated enough about the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/25\/572198\/UK-Labour-Corbyn-semitism-row-2013-speech\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the United Kingdom\u2019s Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has defended his remarks in 2013 in which he criticized Zionists living in Britain for not understanding &#8220;the English irony&#8221; as much as a non-British ambassador of Palestine did. Corbyn issued a statement late on Friday saying his use of the word Zionist\u00a0at the time was [&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-374837","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\/374837","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=374837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}