When Jeremy Corbyn was the Labour leader, not a day went by without a media outlet levelling accusations of antisemitism against him or his supporters. Predictably, they’ve lost their Terminator-like ability to spot antisemitism from 100 yards away now that Labour is once again pro-Zionist:

This caricature of Zack Polanski in the daily mail is pretty fucking dodgy isn’t it? pic.twitter.com/cVbzkWWwAO

— Godspeed You Black Tamperer (ft Maya) (@twlldun) December 29, 2025

How did this happen?

In the early days of Corbyn’s Labour leadership, there was an allegation of antisemitism which lasted for months. The core of this story was that Corbyn liked a Facebook post relating to the following mural which included caricatures of Jewish men:

@BethRigby @Baddiel
Jeremy Corbyn thinks the mural looked like rich men playing monopoly, because it depicts rich men playing monopoly

Anyone who sees depictions of rich people and reflexively assumes they must be Jewish is the very definition of an antisemite#ItWasAScam pic.twitter.com/UOFDqaQeC3

— Donahue Rogers (@DonahueRogers) January 27, 2023

The artist Mear One said the following about the mural:

I came to paint a mural that depicted the elite banker cartel known as the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Morgans, the ruling class elite few, the Wizards of Oz. They would be playing a board game of monopoly on the backs of the working class. The symbol of the Free Mason [sic] Pyramid rises behind this group and behind that is a polluted world of coal burning and nuclear reactors. I was creating this piece to inspire critical thought and spark conversation. A group of conservatives do not like my mural and are playing a race card with me. My mural is about class and privilege. The banker group is made up of Jewish and white Anglos. For some reason they are saying I am anti-Semitic. This I am most definitely not… What I am against is class.

An important bit of context is that there was a lot of antisemitism floating around on Facebook at this time in the form of conspiracies – much of it related to the Rothschilds. The reason you no longer see that stuff is because we all learned how to better identify racism. In Britain, we possibly learned more than anywhere else, because the media constantly generated stories like the above.

All this is to say that OF COURSE the Dail Mail knew not to picture a Jewish politician with a massive, fuck-off nose — we all went through the same crash course together. They told us they were experts on the topic!

People are responding as follows:

Daily Mail doing some casual antisemitism on @ZackPolanski in yesterday’s “caricatures” pic.twitter.com/slUnIarLVZ

— TLTM (@TLTM32) December 29, 2025

Especially as his nose isn’t remotely like that.

— Steve (@wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social) 2025-12-28T21:12:37.788Z

It really doesn’t help that Starmer and Reeves look mostly normal, while Polanski looks like he got hit with the Goebbels ray:

they’ve obviously intentionally exaggerated certain features on zack that were not previously distinctive and made it barely even look like him and starmer and rachel reeves literally look the same… https://t.co/NtaOrg2Dn1

— cez (@cezthesocialist) December 29, 2025

And it’s not just the media who seem to have miraculously forgot what an antisemitic trope looks like:

Yo, what the fuck???

Jeremy Corbyn was hounded for years and labelled an antisemite for literally nothing, and it still hangs over him, yet I haven’t heard a single peep about Reform using such a blatantly antisemitic poster about Zack Polanski from an outraged press/media. pic.twitter.com/AJEs8joatj

— Shinobilyricalassassin (@Shinobilyrical1) November 4, 2025

All so very predictable

When people said the antisemitism accusations were a smear, what they meant was that people were fabricating and exaggerating instances for political gain — all the while ignoring the antisemitism which existed among their own ideological allies. Speaking to that, here’s what the Media Reform Coalition found:

Following extensive case study research, we identified myriad inaccuracies and distortions in online and television news including marked skews in sourcing, omission of essential context or right of reply, misquotation, and false assertions made either by journalists themselves or sources whose contentious claims were neither challenged nor countered. Overall, our findings were consistent with a disinformation paradigm.

The Polanski ‘caricature’ from the Daily Mail is the media reverting back to normal now that they’re dealing with a Jewish leftist who they can’t smear as an antisemite.

Featured image via Barold

By Willem Moore

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