Jeremy Corbyn, former member of the British Parliament and former leader of the Labour Party at National Palace On January 3, 2022 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Luis Barron/ Eyepix Group)

A scheduled screening of a documentary about former British Labour Party leader and MP Jeremy Corbyn at the Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled, organizers of the event announced on Monday.

Titled, Oh, Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie, the film is advertised as discrediting numerous allegations that Corbyn promoted antisemitism, including uttering antisemitic tropes and associating with known antisemites, during his five year tenure in office. One such claim supporting its thesis alleges that the Board of Deputies of British Jews, a Jewish civil rights organization, and pro-Israel activists conspired to destroy his career.

“Although we believe that the Pilton Palais booked this film in good faith, in the hope of provoking political debate, it’s become clear that it is not appropriate for us to screen it at the festival,” Glastonbury Festival said in a statement. “Glastonbury is about unity and not division, and we stand against all forms of discrimination.”

The removal of the film — which featured an interview of a former University of Bristol professor who was fired for harassing Jewish students and another with a man who blamed 9/11 on Israel and Zionism — from the program’s line up followed public outrage from British Jewish groups who argued that platforming it would have emboldened antisemites and demonstrated a harmful indifference to the problem of rising antisemitism across the world.

On Monday, British Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl said that screening the film would be “profoundly sinister,” the Jewish Chronicle reported.

Community Security Trust (CST), a nonprofit that provides security to British Jewish communities, criticized the film for denying “the very real harassment and abuse suffered by many Jewish Labour Party members during that period, while itself reinforcing antisemitic stereotypes.” CST also questioned the sincerity of Glastonbury Festival’s self-designation as an “anti-racist” organization.

On Tuesday, The British Board of Deputies, a Jewish organizational body, commended Glastonbury Festival’s decision, tweeting, “Hateful conspiracy theories should have no place in our society.”

The British Labour Party banned Jeremy Corbyn from seeking office under its name in March. During his tenure as party leader, Jewish MPs resigned en-masse after a series of antisemitism scandals rocked the party.

Corbyn had denied that antisemitism in Labour was a problem, saying in Oct. 2020 that an Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report which concluded that the party was responsible for illegal antisemitic harassment and discrimination had “dramatically overstated” the problem.

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