GB News boycott activists in grip of ‘militant prejudice’
THE GROUP calling for a boycott of GB News is using a strategy advisor and logistics facilitaor who has posted a series of inflammatory tweets on Israel, the JC can reveal.
Stop Funding Hate has been publicly calling for advertisers to withdraw their business from the new “antiwoke” channel on the basis that it was spreading bigotry.
But on Twitter, Stu Moran,
CEO of the Web Foundry, a consultancy that provides logistical and strategic support for Stop Funding
Hate, wrote: “Much of the
UK media seems to be in thrall to Israeli propaganda.”
He also defended Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey when she was removed from the Shadow Cabinet by Sir Keir Starmer after sharing an article containing an antisemitic conspiracy theory around George Floyd’s death.
Mr Moran wrote: “How have we ended up with criticism of the Israeli state – openly involved in US police training it seems – being branded antisemitic @Keir_Starmer? And how can Labour face up to Israel’s treatment of Palestine & UN resolutions against it without such criticism?” Mr Moran called Israel “the incredibly wellfunded and now nuclear power” and defended website The Canary after its editor tweeted “Arbeit macht frei”, saying: “Yes, I get that it’s not good but compared to things I’ve seen in almost every tabloid, the Times, Telegraph and even the BBC that cause hate crime on our streets a daily basis – I’d argue that tweet won’t – I’m struggling to understand the size of the furore against the Canary?”
The Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “For Stop Funding Hate to collaborate with people making these sorts of comments is the height of hypocrisy. They should stop funding the hate spread by their own contractor. Sadly this seems to be yet another case of an extreme far-left worldview becoming entrenched amongst those who claim the mantle of campaigners against hatred. It is shameful.”
Sir John Hayes MP, Chairman of the Common Sense Group of Conservative MPs, said: “As is so often the case, the view of virtue amongst these groups and individuals is warped by militant prejudice. On both the hard-left and hard-right this cancerous preoccupation is rife.”