Panorama journalist John Ware responds to the Corbyn cult

The BBC has a record of annoying people in every part of the political spectrum. Sometimes than annoyance is justified. often, it is not.

Supporters of the former Labour leader  Jeremy Corbyn - and don't be fooled that they have gone away, the present Leader of the Opposition has done his best to purge the Corbyn cult but they are still a powerful force in the Labour party - are convinced that the reason he was so decisively rejected by the country in 2019 is that is that he was "smeared" over Anti-Semitism by the media in general and the BBC in particular.

They have made particular attempts to suggest that the BBC Panorama programme "Is Labour Anti-Semitic" which was broadcast in July 2019 was wrong to suggest that the office of the then leader of the opposition had intervened in disciplinary cases brought against Labour members accused of anti-semitism and they continue to argue this even though the country's official watchdog in such matters, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (which, by the way, had been created by a Labour government) also found that there had been such intervention.

John Ware, the lead journalist involved in that programme, has been a particular target for the Corbynistas, several of whom have subsequently had to apologise to Ware and pay damages and costs for making inaccurate and defamatory statements about him.

Ware has now published a fairly hefty rebuttal on "The Article" to the accusations which the pro-Corbyn left and their supporters on news sources like Novara Media and Al Jazeera have thrown at him. In his words

   "It now seems to me that laying out in forensic detail all the evidence that underpinned our case might be revealing and even quite interesting, because in my view it might suggest that some Corbynites have become impervious to evidence that undermines their case. So, I’m now going to set out that evidence in all its detail.

To the frustration of the Corbynites, both the Labour Party (from Corbyn’s time) and his supporters in a pressure group unaffiliated to the Labour party but called Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL), most of them radical Left anti-Zionist Jews, have already had to apologise in open court and pay damages and costs to me for a series of defamatory statements.

Labour has also apologised and paid damages to seven ex-Labour party officials who blew the whistle on Panorama about how the antisemitism crisis under Corbyn had developed and the rancorous climate inside the party. Labour and the JVL have accepted there was no truth in their allegations.

None of what the Corbynites and Al Jazeera have now said about Panorama misleading the public over interference by Corbyn’s office is true either."

You can read his detailed rebuttal on The Article site but clicking on the link below.

Rewriting history: Corbyn’s Labour Party, antisemitism and ‘Panorama’ | TheArticle

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