Jewish Chronicle’s Libel Payouts Were a Small Price to Pay for Smearing Corbyn and the Left - Global Research
Global ResearchMAR 12 2021
Four columnists from the UK-based Jewish Chronicle (JC), Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, David Aaronovitch, and David Baddiel, are resigning from the paper over what they describe as the newspaper's biased reporting in favor of Israel.
In his resignation letter posted on X, Freedland said that while his "attachment to the JC runs very deep," and that he and his father have written for it for "nearly 75 years," the paper has become "partisan" and "ideological" rather than "journalistic."
Also on X, Freeman wrote, "I'm immensely grateful for all the support I've had from the editors during my time there," but "recent events have made it impossible for me to stay." Replying to Freeman, Aaronovitch wrote, "I'm out too," with a spokesman for Baddiel saying the same for him.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that Israeli media is doing the biddig of Benjamin Netanyahu. The Prime Minister's entire cabinet just voted to ban Al Jazeera — one of the world's most popular news outlets — from the country because it reports from the Palestinian perspective. As the government continues to broaden its definition of 'incitment against Jews," real journalism will go by the wayside.
While it's fine to criticize newspapers when they're in the wrong, let's not forget that the entire world was against Israel from the second it was attacked on Oct. 7. Even Hadley Freeman has warned about the terrifying rise of antisemitism across the West, particularly in Britain, where protesters were celebrating Hamas after its attack. Netanyahu does not represent most Israelis, and this fact must be remembered as the world continues to deal with the Israel-Gaza issue.