Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor-in-chief of the Current Affairs Magazine.

I am joined today by Aza Wyn Stanley. He is an investigative journalist who serves as associate editor at the Electronic Edifada, the author of the brand new book weaponizing anti-Semitism,

How the Israel Lobby brought down Jeremy Corby, available from or books.

Aso Wins daily.

Thank you so much for joining us on current affairs today.

Great to be with you, Nathan.

Well, so Jeremy Corbyn's tenure as leader of the British Labour Party ended a few years ago.

Corbyn is no longer even, I don't believe, a member of the British Labour Party.

We have spoken on this program before several times a little bit about Corbyn's

rise and fall, but you felt that there is a huge portion of the story of the rise and fall that Jeremy Corbyn that has and had not been excavated and

that is very important for people to understand.

So perhaps we could start with you telling us, why did you feel it was important enough

to write a book on this topic. What story hadn't been told that you felt

absolutely needed to be told? That's a really good question. I mean, I felt this is going to

sound really grand and overblown, but I really did feel that this book needed to be written to save the historical record

because Jeremy Corbyn has gone down in British political history,

according to the mainstream as a racist, as an anti-Semite.

You know, that is now, it's acceptable to say that in the mainstream media about him,

or at least that he had a major problem with anti-Semitism.

And that is something that is quite commonly said.

Yes, it was anti-Semitism problem.

That's kind of canonical, the anti-Semitism problem.

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