Mixed up in the red-brown, pro-assad, holocaust denial milieu now it seems:
Assad’s Confused Apologists: Academics in The Times
But this isn’t the first time that members of this Working Group have boosted such pro-Assad conspiracies, as earlier this year,
Tara McCormack, a leading member of the group based at the University of Leicester, tweeted the following comment:
“It is also an established fact that a) the White Helmets are basically Al Q (they provide most of the reporting from Jihadi held areas and b) that hospitals are used as bases by these groups.” (February 5, 2018)
Such pro-Assad propaganda does not materialise out of nothing, and members of the Working Group lean heavily upon the writings of leading libertarian conspiracy theorists like
Vanessa Beeley. For those who don’t know, Beeley is an Assad regime propagandist who is counted as an associate editor for
21st Century Wire — a website closely associated with Alex Jones’ notorious US-based conspiracy outlet,
InfoWars.
Tara McCormack also happens to be a longstanding contributor to the libertarian magazine
Spiked Online – a magazine which has more in common with
The Times than with any forces on the left of political spectrum. Indeed, as highlighted on an independent investigative wiki page,
Spiked was previously run by
Times columnist
Mick Hume, and “
is part of the libertarian anti-environmental” group which has the Orwellian name, the
Living Marxism Network (which bears no relation to any Marxist ideas that I am familiar with, and I am a Marxist). To get a flavour of typical fare published in
Spiked, recent articles not only
dismiss the existence of a pay-gap between men and women, but also rail against “
Jeremy Corbyn’s cult of youth” over his pledge to promote free bus travel.
