New allegations emerge about leftie campaigners making an attempt to defund GB News
A marketing campaign group linked to the GB News boycott has been accused of working racist conspiracy theories which Sir Keir Starmer has needed to ban within the Labour Party.
Ethical Consumer, a UK-based Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) group, helps produce toolkits, imagery and analysis paperwork for teams like Stop Funding Hate which is behind the push to cease promoting on GB News.
But it has been revealed that a type of toolkits contains an antisemitic conspiracy idea about Israel which Starmer has banned within the Labour Party.
It claims: “Israel’s system of apartheid is a worldwide model for repression and plays a key role in the international growth of racism and militarism. Police and security personnel from Brazil, the US and the EU have been trained by the Israeli police, military and/or other security forces. Our oppressors are more connected than ever.”
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The idea was utilized by leftwing teams to counsel that police who killed George Floyd in America which sparked riots throughout the nation, had been educated by Israel within the killer strategies.
When in June 2020, Rebecca Long Bailey shared an article containing the conspiracy idea she was sacked from the entrance bench by Starmer.
Sir Keir stated: “The sharing of that article was wrong… because the article contained anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and I have therefore stood Rebecca Long-Bailey down from the shadow cabinet.”
A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism stated: “The notion that Israel exports repression around the world and can be tied to all the abuses committed by security services in both the developed and less developed parts of the world is obscene.
“It attracts on a trope of outsized and nefarious Jewish energy, which was additionally the premise of the antisemitic conspiracy that the Jewish state had taught American police kneel on necks and kill black Americans.
“When activists try to connect every bad thing in the world to the Jews or their state, reasonable observers can see what is going on.”
The row has damaged out amid considerations over the way in which hard-left woke teams try to affect promoting and the behaviour of companies to close down free speech.
Ethical Consumer has not responded to Express.co.uk for a request for remark.
However, its associate group Stop Funding Hate (SFH), which makes use of its toolkits, has been pushing a boycott by advertisers of GB News as a result of they don’t like its centre-right content material.
The Government additionally distanced itself from one other associate organisation of SFH, the Conscious Advertising Network after individuals related with it branded Nigel Farage a fascist and supported efforts by the banks to shut his account over his political beliefs.
Mr Farage has warned that the issues of woke leftwing affect in firms “runs deep”.
Ethical Consumer is {a magazine}, marketing campaign group, and consultancy enterprise that was based in 1989 to advance the BDS anti-apartheid motion in South Africa. Since 2014 they’ve supported the controversial BDS motion.
When GB News launched they advised their supporters to “boycott the bad guys” and that “a great way to shop ethically is to boycott those companies that aren’t behaving responsibly and maybe join a boycott campaign” (in opposition to GB News).