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John Ware – presenter of last year’s controversial Panorama episode on antisemitism in the Labour Party – has published an in-depth article decrying allegations of sabotage against Corbyn’s leadership...
John Ware – presenter of last year’s controversial Panorama episode on antisemitism in the Labour Party – has published an in-depth article decrying allegations of sabotage against Corbyn’s leadership...
In a 3K word piece he manages to overlook virtually all of what seems to be the most compelling evidence of sabotage...
For instance, Ware acknowledges that "the leaked report does contain enough private messaging to prove that many in Labour’s senior management team were praying for a humiliating Corbyn defeat [...] But that’s very different from saying they actively sought to bring it about"...
He makes no mention of the senior official who DID privately acknowledge that Labour’s unexpected electoral gains in 2017 were “the opposite of what I had been working towards these past couple of years!”…
It's hard to imagine how that could be interpreted as anything other than 'saying that they actively sought to bring about a humiliating Corbyn defeat'; the very evidence that Ware claims does not exist.
In similar fashion, Ware has refused to engage with, comment on or respond to new evidence which appears to suggest serious failings in the Panorama programme he presented last year... https://novaramedia.com/2020/07/22/bbc-panorama-investigation-into-labour-antisemitism-omitted-key-evidence-and-parts-of-labours-response/
Among other things, the programme itself appared to omit evidence that cast serious doubt over the accounts of its main contributors and ‘whistleblowers’...
Instead of engaging properly with the evidence, Ware makes disparaging and apparently grossly defamatory remarks about me in his article published today, having already threatened to sue me (ironically) for defamation...
In this article for the JC (of which he is now part-owner), Ware makes a number of serious allegations and personal attacks against individuals, apparently without any attempt to seek reply, and at the same time publicly threatens them with libel action... https://www.thejc.com/comment/opinion/the-corbynites-have-lied-with-impunity-now-they-face-the-legal-consequences-1.501782
He has initiated libel proceedings against others who have criticised Panorama, including two Jewish individuals and a fellow journalist...
Such actions have raised serious concern from a number of people beyond the Corbyn left, including journalist Peter Jukes... https://twitter.com/peterjukes/status/1278302969201602560
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