Skwawkbox and Canary cleared after smear campaign against them
JVL Introduction
In January we reposted Tim Fenton’s Zelo Street blog John Mann’s Regulation Howler.
This concerned leaks from a new study carried out by King’s College London for the Government’s Independent Adviser on Antisemitism Lord John Mann.
Claims were being made that the Canary and Skwawkbox websites promote “heavily negative coverage of Jewish issues” to audiences that are “associated with antisemitism”.
IMPRESS, the post-Levenson regulatory body, decided to look into these claims and has just announced its findings.
Its report is a total vindication of the Canary and Skwawkbox.
It found that the material assessed did not amount to discrimination against Jewish people, was not sensationalist and did not use language that was likely to provoke hatred or put a person or group in fear, not does it appear to have been intended to have that effect.
Skwawkbox editor Steve Walker said: “Mr Mann should direct his energies to the very real antisemitism and Islamophobia that exists on the right – and not only the far right. The Labour right to which he previously belonged has a sorry record in its treatment of Muslims and GRT communities.
This article was originally published by Skwawkbox on Thu 25 Nov 2021. Read the original here.
UK’s independent press regulator dismisses Mann/KCL smears against Skwawkbox and Canary
After more than 7 months of detailed examination, IMPRESS finds left publications acted entirely in accord with ethical journalism standards and dismisses lurid claims of ‘conspiracy theories’ and antisemitism, concluding there is nothing further to investigate
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We may be getting close to the tipping point where unfounded allegations of antisemitism DO get questioned and those making them face embarrassment and the loss of their professional reputations. Hope so.
Nancy Mendoza, the Chief Operating Officer, and Emily Topple, the Chief Editor, of The Canary are both Jewish. I don’t know how John Mann has the gall to engage in rubbish like this – or why Kings College London went along with him.
Those who conflate criticism of Israel with criticism of Jews are playing with fire because it will inevitably lead to anger against Israel being misdirected against Jews. We must fight passionately for a continuing distinction between a Zionist identity and a Jewish identity.
We have unfortunately to keep repeating the mantra that not all Zionists are Jews and not all Jews are Zionists.
Tell us some thing we dont already know. The whole process of lies and smears is designed purely to silence dissenters and destroy the left, inside and outside the Labour Party
An important read, but I suspect must of us knew this!
Thank goodness for the truth being independently upheld. Much as Linda says, we may be reaching a point where ludicrous accusations of antisemitism done for political cheating or out of personal spite have low credibility.
I agree with Linda…and also hope.
Yes and who compiled the Kings College Report? Step forward the Zionists tame ‘researcher’ Dr Allington. The same Allington who came up with a definition of ‘antisemitism’ for the Campaign Against Antisemitism that found that antisemitism was more prevalent on the left than the right.
Those who keep tabs on the CAA site will notice that appended to many articles is this ‘finding’.
How did Allington succeed when so many b4 him fail? Well he devised 6 new questions that people on the left failed. Questions such as ‘do you feel uncomfortable sitting down with supporters of the Israeli state’. Imagine you were found to be a racist if you’d been unhappy keeping company with supporters of the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
All of his ‘findings’ assume that Jew=Zionist of course. See my blog
EXCLUSIVE –Dr Allington of King’s College is a Unique Academic – He Starts Out With the Conclusion and then he finds the ‘Evidence’
Daniel Allington is the Academic Fraud Behind the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism’s ‘Research’ into Anti-Semitism
https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2021/04/exclusive-dr-allington-of-kings-college.html
Those who seek to build their careers on defamation entrust their power to the baying mob; yet the mob is a fickle patron. John Mann would do well to remember the fate of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
We should all be complaining to Kings College about the report from one of their academics. No doubt, Mann the Czar knew exactly what he was going to get.
I doubt this will make much difference to the pro-Israel Right. The same tactic is used repeatedly: slander someone or an organisation with vivid, lurid imagery of alleged wrongdoing against supposedly vulnerable victims; provide no evidence; then the Left has to respond in a long process, producing the evidence to discredit the original claims. Meanwhile, the public comes to associate the target (e.g. Jeremy Corbyn) with these damaging claims and the eventual apology is largely ignored by the media and public. ““A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” (The socialist Mark Twain, possibly)
Another domino falls…more to come.
Vexatious claims of antisemitism are hate crimes and should be prosecuted
Skwawkbox The Canary and JVL must go for John Mann and Kings College on the grounds they are a threat to the Jewish Community
I looked briefly at the conclusions of the Kings College Report. Not academic enquiry, but rubbish work; using the language of the *red tops*, not that of a University.
THE CANARY. Unfortunately their articles on the IMPRESS report, repeat in places many of the AS smears; as if they were originally true.
A very poor piece of Journalism.
The individuals involved with Stop Funding Fake News, launched by Morgan McSweeny, Starmer’s first chief of staff, and fronted by Rachel Riley succeeded in persuading advertisers to withdraw their ads from The Canary, accusing them of publishing antisemitic material, they lost their advertising which nearly put them out of business. The editor has since been subject to continual harrassment and defamation which had a serious effect on her mental health resulting in her leaving the job. The accusations by Mann seem to have been a continuation of the effort to destroy the site for political reasons. If anyone deserved legal help and crowd funding to sue these cynical bastards for defamation it’s The Canary and their brave journalists.