ABC and the Guardian labelled ‘antisemitic' for leftist views
'There's an obvious answer and a less obvious answer; the obvious answer is that most of the media is of the left and the left is aggressively anti-Israel,' Mr Kingston said.
'I think there are journalists within the ABC and the Guardian who aren't just anti-Israel, they are antisemitic.
'I don't think that the left throughout this conflict has been able to comprehend that Hamas and indeed many people who hold the Islamic faith across the Middle East, do not think like us, they don't have a Western liberal world view, the concept of human rights is foreign to them.'
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