Mick Hartley

Former Labour MP Chris Williamson was one of Jeremy Corbyn's most fervent supporters. And now:

Disgraced former Labour MP Chris Williamson has lost his access to Parliament after a committee of MPs reviewed his security pass at a hearing earlier today.

His pass has been revoked until further notice due to his links with the Iranian-regime backed Press TV.

Concerns were raised about Williamson, the MP for Derby North from 2017 to 2019, holding a security pass to access the heart of power in the UK due to his position as a presenter of a show on Iranian state TV, MailOnline reported….

The 66-year-old former MP has been hosting a show on Iran's Press TV – whose UK broadcast licence was revoked in 2012 – alongside sacked Bristol University professor David Miller since early last year.

The show, entitled 'Palestine Declassified', claims to provide "an in-depth look at the Palestine issue". However, the Community Security Trust's Dave Rich told the JC earlier this year: "Palestine Declassified is a litany of antisemitic conspiracy theories and stereotypes that has attacked Jewish schools, youth movements, interfaith groups, charities, academics and now even Jewish comedians.

"It is absurd, but also harmful, and brings shame on anyone associated with it."

The CST was forced to give security advice to Jewish schools after an episode last year that claimed that British children are being “indoctrinated”.

Williamson's Twitter account was labelled as "Iran state-affiliated media" last year, a designation he vehemently disputes.

He has also angered MPs and the public for his criticism of Ukraine, including claiming that the country's Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is "backed by literal Nazis" on the day that he made his historic address to Parliament.

He described Zelensky as a "neo-Nazi backed hypocrite", and said that both Conservative and Labour MPs "salivate about escalating the war in Ukraine".

It all seems to go together in this nasty corner of the hard left: a fervent hatred of Jews together with support for Iran, and Putin's Russia. There's Williamson's co=presenter pal David Miller, of course – the disgraced former Bristol University lecturer who seems to believe that Iran and Syria are the "bulwarks of the resistance to imperialism".

See also, Roger Waters…