The Guardian has published a cartoon of a beheading, in which Jeremy Corbyn is portrayed as the martyr St John the Baptist [at the court of King Herod]

There are at least two big reasons to question the editorial judgement, in terms of the content and the timing (France) too.

(The cartoonist is Steve Bell, which I didn't realise I had omitted from the Tweet)

* Keir Starmer is Salome.
* Maybe Board of Deputies are her mother/Herod's wife in Bell's analogy?

I guess the cartoon may be retracted by midday tomorrow, perhaps by midnight.
- Events in France are an immediate reason (timing), but not the foundational one.
- This cartoon shows Labour leader Starner with the head of Corbyn the Martyr (to give it to the tyrant King of Judea)

The cartoon's clear meaning seems to be that
- Corbyn has been stitched up/martyred + sacrificed to powerful forces by his successor.
- ie, clear inference that EHRC are wrong: the antisemitism crisis was a political smear, both inside and outside the party.

We are in the territory of obviously legal but highly criticisable (reprehensible) opinion. The question is to what extent should the Guardian (editorial judgement/not law) keep publishing 'its a smear' commentary or cartoons about anti-semitism, after the EHRC findings today?

Thread on John the Baptist, Salome and Herod https://twitter.com/RKWinvisibleman/status/1322099581405044737?s=19