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 contributed to it for a combined "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.
The fabrications published by the Jewish Chronicle demonstrate the lengths some are willing to go to assist Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist government. Such influence operations are well-documented and are caustic to both Israeli and Jewish life. Indeed, the Jewish Chronicle has become increasingly sensational in recent years under editor Jake Wallis Simons, making this incident unfortunately unsurprising.
The Jewish Chronicle has taken full accountability for the errors that led to the publication of false information. Stronger mechanisms to prevent incidents like this one from occurring have been put in place, and, hopefully, those who left will eventually return.