— Iggy Ostanin (@magnitsky)
May 2, 2019
By contrast, Mr Corbyn praised Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera and Iran's state-controlled broadcaster Press TV, for their “power… to robustly question the representatives of the Israeli government as well as the US and other opinion formers around the world.”
The Islington North MP subsequently wrote that it was “unclear…how far the Obama administration is prepared to stand up to Israel and limit its control of US foreign policy.”
People on Twitter said that what Mr Corbyn wrote was a “direct contravention of the IHRA guidelines as Labour adopted them.”
A spokesperson for the Labour Party said: "The suggestion that Jeremy was talking about Jewish people, when he commented on the greater level of media influence the Israeli government has than the Palestinian leadership, is entirely false, and itself relies on a damaging antisemitic trope."
