Gaza activists attack Corbyn after he refuses to say he is an anti-Zionist

— David Miller (@Tracking_Power) August 27, 2025

Commenting on the video, Miller said: “Why is Jeremy Corbyn, even after leaving the genocide-supporting Labour Party and setting up a new left-wing alternative, still refusing to oppose Zionism as a Jewish supremacist ideology?”

He continued: “This comes in the same day that another Corbyn adviser, James Schneider, also refused to say he was an anti-Zionist. Any anti-racist must by definition be anti-Zionist. Jeremy Corbyn is refusing to say he is anti-Zionist!”

Miller’s comments were criticised by pro-Gaza independent MP Adnan Hussain.

“Stop this witch-hunt against a man who has literally dedicated his life to the Palestinian cause, and continues to do so. Just stop!”, he said in a post on social media.

In another he added: “Of all the politicians I've ever known, Jeremy Corbyn is by far the most sincere. I am extremely suspicious of the motives behind all so-called allies attempting to discredit him and bring him down.”

But Hussain soon found himself being criticised by other left-wing activists.

Jackie Walker, the Jewish activist and former vice-chair of Corbynite group Momentum, who gained notoriety for saying that Jews were the “chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade”, said that criticism of Corbyn was motivated by the mistakes he made while Labour leader.

“That’s what people are now concerned to prevent. The issue of Zionism is critical to this. To say nothing, or have a complicated response that doesn’t give an answer is a disaster and for me suggests we need more than Jeremy as a leader,” she wrote.

Hussain was subject to yet more criticism after he responded to Walker by saying that the issue was “complicated”.

“You can believe the Jewish people, especially after the horrors of the Holocaust, had the right to a homeland, and simultaneously be utterly opposed to a settler colonial project ethnically cleansing and committing one,” he added.

After further disagreement he suggested that a Jewish state could established in Europe, rather than in Israel: “Europe could have atoned for its evil and provided its victims with land for a homeland, in Europe. This is why it's not black and white, the word Zionism has many connotations and isn't black and white. JC [Jeremy Corbyn] is very clearly opposed to the settler/colonial/genocidal aspect.”

Since their announcement of a new political party, there have been rumours of division between Corbyn and Zarah Sultana MP.

Earlier this month, Sultana, who was elected as a Labour MP at the last general election, appeared to criticise Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party, accusing him of “capitulating” by adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which she claimed “equated anti-Zionism with antisemitism”.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition has been accepted by the UK government as its official definition of antisemitism.

Among the examples of modern antisemitism listed in the definition is “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, such as by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour”. Another example listed is “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis”.

Anti-Zionist activists have claimed that these provisions can lead to legitimate criticism of Israel being stifled by labelling them as antisemitic.

After criticism of her comments, including from the Board of Deputies, Sultana doubled down on her remarks.

"The smears won’t work this time. I say it loudly and proudly: I’m an anti-Zionist”, she said in a post on X.

However, last week, Corbyn appeared to hit back at her criticism of him.

In an interview with outlet Middle East Eye, the Islington North MP said: "I think it wasn't really necessary for her to bring all that up in the interview, but that's what she decided to do.”

He went on: "The party did adopt the IHRA definition. Personally, I was more in favour of the Jerusalem Declaration, which is simply saying that antisemitism is wrong.

"It is wrong to be antisemitic, and it is perfectly possible to discuss the politics and behaviour of the state of Israel without being antisemitic.

"People do that all the time. Indeed, many people in Israel do that all the time, and so our party will have a resolutely anti-racist position."