Coverage of issue was a disgrace

✒ THAT Labour has formally complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation about the coverage by some right-wing newspapers of Jeremy Corbyn’s attendance at a Tunisian ceremony in 2014 will be music to the ears of all activists and fair-minded citizens.

These papers are a disgrace to journalism.

These newspapers gleefully claimed that the 2014 ceremony was held to honour Palestinians who killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Unfortunately for these papers, Corbyn’s visit was commemorating 47 Palestinians killed in the 1985 Israeli bombing of the PLO’S Tunis office.

Moreover, the Munich terrorists are actually buried in Libya; and whereas we were told that these graves were only feet apart, they’re actually 1.6 million feet apart.

But hey, why let the geographical facts get in the way of a good propaganda assault?

Several of these papers are likely to have full-time staff whose sole task is to trawl through every conceivable historical document relating to Corbyn to find dirt on him, and then use it to manufacture another shock-horror story.

This unprincipled feeding frenzy is actually a very reliable index of just how terrified the Establishment is of a Corbyn-led Labour government.

We’ll certainly be seeing contemptible propaganda right up to the next general election.

People need to see through it, and to wake up to how they’re being cynically manipulated by these enemies of democracy.

It remains to be seen just how long it will take for these right-wing propaganda sheets to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into reporting their own lies and distortions in abject humiliation.

Many of us can hardly wait. Dr Richard House Stroud