Eight years hard Labour: episode 4 - Jeremy and the Jews
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
An old Facebook comment from Jeremy Corbyn resurfaces. The Labour leader is forced to to explain why he publicly supported a graffiti artist accused of painting an antisemitic mural in East London. Allegations of antisemitism against Corbyn’s Labour Party grow. Some Jewish Labour MPs are exposed to abuse and death threats. Jeremy Corbyn’s response to the Skripal poisonings in Salisbury lead some to question his suitability to be PM.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Bashar here and before this episode starts, I just wanted to say thank you. |
| 0:04.8 | It's five years since we made our first ever podcast. |
| 0:08.8 | Since we're at the beginning, we should, I think, do the polite thing and make some introductions here. |
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| 0:18.0 | And while we have hopefully gotten a bit better at this since then, |
| 0:21.9 | what we care about hasn't changed. |
| 0:24.0 | Because we still investigate injustices. |
| 0:26.9 | Until recently, everything I'm about to tell you was a secret. |
| 0:30.2 | We tell gripping stories with a human heart. |
| 0:32.9 | It's a screwed up crazy kind of love story, |
| 0:35.6 | filled with death, lies and witness protection programs. |
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