Podcast Ep 1: Who's behind the anti-Corbyn troll army?

Joining Nora Barrows-Friedman as co-host for the first time is her colleague and fellow reporter Asa Winstanley. This week we take a deeper look at Asa’s latest investigative article, “Fake Labour accounts fueling ‘anti-Semitism crisis’,” which went viral soon after publication. We discuss how the story came about and the wider background of events in the UK Labour Party over the last few years. Who is behind the “anti-Semitism crisis” in Labour? Is this media narrative having an effect? How is Israel like ISIS? Has there been any official response to the story? What would Asa say to Jeremy Corbyn if he had another chance to interview him? And why do people who try to ban the term “Israel lobby” annoy the hell out of us? Image: UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, 2016 (Sophie J. Brown, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeremy_Corbyn,_Leader_of_the_Labour_Party,_UK.jpg) Music: Go Down Standing by Excentrik f/Rythmatic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75IBELKprro) Production assistance: Sharif Zakout