Still the revelations come and still the BBC ignore them.
'Footage has emerged showing Jeremy Corbyn endorsing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel as "part and parcel of a legal process that has to be adopted."
The film, from 2015, just months before Corbyn assumed the party leadership, was taken during a conference in Belfast. Corbyn has maintained that he opposes a blanket boycott of Israel, supporting instead only boycotting produce from Israeli settlements.
"Jeremy is not in favor of a comprehensive or blanket boycott," a spokesperson for Corbyn told The Guardian in December. "He doesn't support BDS. He does support targeted action aimed at illegal settlements and occupied territories."
In the footage filmed in Belfast, he is asked: "Can the panel give hope to the people of Palestine by supporting the movement for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions against Israel?"
He replies: "I think the boycott campaign, divestment campaign, is part and parcel of a legal process that has to be adopted." He later adds: "I believe that sanctions against Israel, because of its breach of the trade agreement, are the appropriate way of promoting [the] peace process."
The footage was published in 2015 by Sinn Féin, the extremist nationalist Northern Irish political party that hosted Corbyn in Belfast. Corbyn, who in 2009 hosted a visit to Britain's parliament by Hamas and Hezbollah politicians, calling them his "friends," was then an outlier in Labour for his radical politics. He was widely seen as having slim chances of leading the movement.'
So was Jeremy Corbyn's spokesperson lying in December? Why are the BBC ignoring the weight of evidence as to the sort of nasty individual Jeremy Corbyn really is? Is it really that the BBC will support any Labour Party leader and if Jews suffer as a result do the BBC really not care?
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