Glastonbury Cancels Screening Of ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn, The Big Lie’ Doc After Jewish Groups Accuse Film Of Pushing Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory
deadline.comGlastonbury Festival has removed documentary Oh, Jeremy Corbyn, The Big Lie from its film program after Jewish groups accused it of putting forward an antisemitic conspiracy theory around why the politician never rose to the position of UK prime minister.
The move, which has prompted a counter backlash from supporters of Corbyn, comes just six years after the politician was given a rock star’s welcome at the festival when he addressed a 50,000-strong crowd there in 2017.
The documentary, produced by activist London-based production house Platform Films, was due to screen in Glastonbury’s Pilton Palais cinema tent as part of a line-up also featuring The Super Mario Bros.
Movie and Spider-Man: Across The Spider Verse as well as classic such as Withnail And I. The film challenges allegations of antisemitism within the Labour Party under Corbyn’s leadership, which would eventually lead to him being suspended as a member in 2020 after he refused to retract his statement that the scale of the issue had been overstated by opponents.
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