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28) In 2017, as is pretty well known to most, Al-Jazeera made an investigative documentary called 'The Israel Lobby'. Incomprehensibly, Ofcom received many complaints that it was 'antisemitic'. What?! A report which tells the truth about something is 'antisemitic' now?

29) A victim of the smears which Aloni alluded to is Mike Sivier. Will the Campaign Against Antisemitism apologise for defaming him? Don't be silly - why would they do that? Their article which smeared him is still there.

30) Sivier won his IPSO case in August. Why is CAA's article defaming him in the grossest terms imaginable still there? Even the Sunday Times have finally (along with the Sun, the Mail, the Express and the JC) retracted the story. What does the CAA think it's doing?

31) These baseless smears wreck reputations and wreck lives. More than that: they do no good to the ongoing fight against antisemitism whatsoever.

32) I have no issue with Stephen Pollard's opposition to Islamofascism whatsoever. I'd like to think all fully paid-up members of the human race are at one on that.

33) I have a very big issue indeed with a) Pollard's opposition to multiculturalism b) His grotesque agreement with Farage's racist 'divided loyalty' trope against Muslims c) His abhorrent refusal to take down a piece which left a Jewish family in serious danger from neo-Nazis.

34) This is the same Pollard who editorialised about an 'existential threat' posed by Corbyn to Britain's Jews. The hypocrisy is stupefying; the lack of respect or support shown to that poor family, indefensible. I'm shocked others haven't condemned in the same way I have.

35) Tellingly - oh so tellingly - Collier totally avoids any of this. Disgracefully, he dismisses it as "a smear attack against... [someone who] has annoyed a few people in his time". Note to Collier: a smear is not a smear when it's grounded in facts. Which you simply avoid.