Jeremy Corbyn’s chief of communications urged pro-Palestinian activists act to counter Zionist activists who “bombard the media with their obsessive campaigns,” newly uncovered video has revealed.
Speaking at a conference titled “the Nakba: Sixty years of dispossession, Sixty years of resistance” in February 2009, Seumas Milne, then a journalist, responded to a question from the audience about the “Western media”.
He said: “There is a view among pro-Palestinian people often that the Zionist movement has a grip on the media, in a way that I think sometimes exaggerates the mechanisms through which that influence is exerted.”
In the footage, uncovered by investigative reporter Iggy Ostanin, Mr Milne went on to say “Zionist movement activists” were “incredibly hard-working and dedicated, and they bombard the media, day in and day out, with their obsessive campaigns”.
