Alex Nunns, a political activist and author who has collaborated with prominent anti-Zionist figures, was recently hired as U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn's new speechwriter, the Jewish Chronicle reported on Sunday.
Nunns is the author of a book documenting Corbyn's unlikely rise to the helm of the British Labour party.
According to the Jewish Chronicle, the new speechwriter is "a long-time cheerleader for Mr. Corbyn on social media."
Nunns also "defended the Labour leader after a video emerged in August last year showing Mr. Corbyn saying Zionists 'don't understand English irony' despite having lived in the country for a very long time," the Jewish Chronicle reported.
The Jewish Chronicle further notes that Nunns claims to have done "editorial work on other people's books, like Julian Assange's 'When Google Met WikiLeaks' and Norman 'Finkelstein's 'Knowing Too Much.'"
Finkelstein wrote the controversial book "The Holocaust Industry," which attacks Israel and U.S. Jews for cynically using the Holocaust to attract financial and political support. Finkelstein has also been accused of sympathizing with terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, as has Corbyn.
Assange is the founder of the website Wikileaks, which shares sensitive material on governments and corporations. The site has reportedly worked with Israel Shamir, whom the Jewish Chronicle describes as a Holocaust denier.
Meanwhile, the Sun reported Sunday that roughly 60,000 Labour members have left the party in the past several months, in part because of Corbyn's failure to combat anti-Semitism in the party ranks. According to the Sun, Corbyn has been warned that the number of defectors from Labour is expected to reach 100,000.
