Predictably, the Guardian is stoking the outrage machine over a Bristol school cancelling a visit by local Labour MP Damien Egan. Like other media, the paper is duping readers by suggesting this is evidence of "antisemitism". Egan is Jewish.

In fact, the cancellation has nothing to do with Egan's Jewishness.

The visit was called off after mounting complaints from Bristol teachers and parents, who oppose genocide and don't want impressionable young minds exposed to someone who defends a state committing the ultimate crime against humanity.

In other words, unlike the Labour party and media like the Guardian, Bristol teachers and parents actually have a moral backbone.

Bristol constituents know much more than Guardian readers about Egan, thanks to their independent local paper the Bristol Cable.

Egan is vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel – that's the same Israel currently committing genocide in Gaza. He went on an Israeli-sponsored visit to Israel shortly after the genocide began. And he has taken money from major pro-Israel lobbyists like Trevor Chinn.

Steve Reed, the communities secretary who made the matter public, threatened that those behind the cancellation "will be held to account" and that "you cannot have people with those kinds of attitudes teaching our children".

No, those are exactly the kind of people Bristolians want teaching their children: those who understand that genocide is unequivocally wrong.

Egan is not being rebuffed because he's Jewish. Like other compromised MPs who support the UK's collusion in genocide, he's being rebuffed because he's a scumbag.