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Grandees attack the Guardian over its Corbyn leader

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It seems the wokest paper in all the west has blundered once again. Last Wednesday the Guardian published a leader column on ‘Labour and antisemitism’ in which the bastion of right-on liberalism opined on the party’s record under Jeremy Corbyn. It opined that:

Mr Corbyn has a formidable record fighting against racism and in speaking up for many persecuted peoples, but in this case he was too slow and too defensive. To show how much better he was than some of his critics allowed, he should have tried harder to engage with their criticisms.

But it seems that not all of the Graun’s readers share their paper’s view of the Magic Grandpa’s reign of error. Today’s letters page makes for damning reading, with the Holocaust Educational Trust, the Jewish Labour Movement and one of Britain’s leading historians all queuing up to condemn the newspaper for its somewhat generous interpretation of Jezza’s record in office.

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