Advertisers desert pro-Corbyn fake news website The Canary
PRO-JEREMY CORBYN website The Canary last week denied accusations of antisemitism — and then claimed it has been forced to downsize by “political Zionists”.
The website, which writes partisan articles attacking critics of Mr Corbyn’s Labour — including those highlighting anti-Jewish racism within the party — emailed supporters saying its business model “no longer works” because of advertisers abandoning it.
“Despite clearly being against the actions of a state, not against Jewish people as an ethic group, we’ve been smeared with accusations of antisemitism,” its message said.
“Accusations stick, despite facts to the contrary. This means advertisers are susceptible to pressure from political Zionists.”
The news was shared by the Stop Funding Fake News (SFFN) campaign, which had targeted brands whose adverts appeared on The Canary and urged them to remove them.
The campaign has targeted partisan websites on both the left and right by urging advertisers to ditch them. A story from The Canary site;
Macmillan Cancer Care, Ted Baker, WWF and Moonpig were among the brands that said they would pull their adverts from The Canary.
SFFN has accused The Canary their interview with Tony Greenstein
fake news...to justify antisemitism”. It highlighted how the site has claimed it is “not antisemitic” to compare Israel to Nazi Germany and defended activists like Jackie Walker, who has since been expelled by Labour for her comments about antisemitism.
Steve Topple, who has written extensively for The Canary, shared antisemitic conspiracy theories on social media.
Mr Topple said that Jews should be held responsible for the “growing Zionist cancer”, and suggested that Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was a “puppet” of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, her Jewish predecessor, and the Rothschild family. Mr Topple apologised for his “previous comments” in 2016.
In its message to supporters, The Canary said that, from mid-August, its freelance authors would be limited in how much they can write.
The Holocaust Educational Trust’s Karen Pollock tweeted: “Brilliant”.