Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has refused to confirm he is an anti-Zionist. In a video posted by the lobbying watchdog Spinwatch and others, he was asked if he would follow the example of Zarah Sultana.
In response to what she called anti-Semitism “smears” ten days ago, Sultana said she was proudly anti-Zionist:
The smears won’t work this time.
I say it loudly and proudly: I’m an anti-Zionist.
Print that. https://t.co/HSZAWnO4cJ
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) August 17, 2025
As the Canary reported at the time:
It’s a renowned tactic of Israeli propaganda to accuse those objecting to the fascism of Zionism as actually being anti-Semitic. However, Sultana quickly nipped that shit in the bud.
We examined Sultana’s various criticisms of Corbynism here.
“He refused”
The post in question shows activist Ani Says asking Jeremy Corbyn to follow follow Sultana’s example:
Earlier today, a long-time anti-Zionist supporter of Jeremy Corbyn asked him whether he would follow Zarah Sultana’s lead and openly declare himself an anti-Zionist.
He refused.
The Instagram post said:
When @ani.says2 pressed further, she was pushed aside by Oly Durose, Corbyn’s adviser and former aide to David Lammy, who urged journalists to turn their cameras off.
The post also asks:
Why is Jeremy Corbyn, even after leaving the genocide-supporting Labour Party and setting up a new left-wing alternative, still refusing to oppose Zionism as a Jewish supremacist ideology?
It adds that “another Corbyn adviser, James Schneider” also recently “refused to say he was an anti-Zionist”:
Any anti-racist must by definition be anti-Zionist.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s response going viral
Ani Says later posted further comments on her social media. She said she’d been a fan of Jeremy Corbyn for nearly two decades and had voted or him many times.
Says said that as someone with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), she saw the world in very black and white ways. And as a committed pro-Palestine activist, she couldn’t understand why Sultana had stated she was anti-Zionist but Corbyn had not yet done so.
She said she felt sad and disappointed about the incident.
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By Joe Glenton
This post was originally published on Canary.