"It’s also important that everyone understand that every part of this is 100 percent cynical manipulation. The people pushing this narrative are fully aware that it is false. Everyone knew Jeremy Corbyn was a lifelong anti-racist who didn’t have an antisemitic bone in his body. Everyone knew there was no crisis of antisemitism in the Labour Party. But they pretended to believe otherwise because they didn’t want to see socialism and anti-imperialism gain a political foothold in the UK. The same thing is happening in the US and throughout the west right now regarding protests against the genocide in Gaza."

Of course. The truth of the allegations is irrelevant. In fact, those making the allegations surely knew that they were lies.

What matters is whether the allegations serve the Empire. What matters is the power to make people believe outrageous lies, or at least to conform as if they did.