Corbyn fans fail to find Ullman’s sketch funny
JEREMY Corbyn supporters criticised comedian Tracey Ullman last night for portraying the Labour leader as an anti-Semite and terrorist sympathiser in a TV sketch.
They said the three-minute skit on BBC1’s Tracey Breaks The News on Friday was ‘propaganda’.
In a tweet shared by politician George Galloway, one even incorrectly blamed Jewish comedian David Baddiel for writing the sketch, in which Miss Ullman, as Mr Corbyn, is greeted by a man in a skullcap who criticises the antiSemitism in Labour.
Mr Corbyn replies: ‘I am all over it like cream cheese on a bagel...’ He then says he has told Labour anti-Semites to ‘tone it down’.
When Sinn Fein politician Gerry Adams comes up to praise him, he gets into a cab driven by a Hamas supporter who greets him warmly.
Members of Momentum threatened to sue producers last night.
But Mr Baddiel said the fact that Corbynistas had pointed the finger at him was itself symptomatic of anti-Semitism and ‘myths of Jewish conspiracy’. The BBC and Labour refused to comment.