How the Mail led the way
THE Daily Mail has led the way in exposing the anti-Semitism allegations that have triggered a crisis in the Labour Party.
Our series of revelations in the past week culminated in an investigation on Saturday by Guy Adams that probed Jeremy Corbyn’s previous membership of Palestine Live, an anti-Semitic Facebook group.
Some of the contributors described Jews as ‘demons’ and others accused Israelis of harvesting the organs of Arab children. They also posted links to speeches by white supremacists including the leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
On Wednesday, the Mail reported how Mr Corbyn’s youngest son had been dragged into the toxic row after he allowed a ‘Nazi cartoon’ to remain on his Facebook feed without challenging or deleting the vile image, which showed the Star of David crushing people. A Mail investigation then revealed that Tommy Corbyn had previously been a member of at least three anti-Semitic Facebook groups, many of them filled with deeply offensive and obscene content.
One was called End the Royal Family and Their £40m+ Per Year. Another was a page dedicated to Ken O’Keefe, a US commentator often accused of anti-Semitism.
The Mail also revealed that Christine Shawcroft, then chairman of Labour’s disputes panel, had been forced to resign for opposing the suspension of a party activist who posted an image on Facebook that apparently questioned the Holocaust.