Guardian columnist and YouTuber Owen Jones has apologized for a tweet supporting “Britain’s greatest living filmmaker” Ken Loach, who was expelled from the Labour Party last month.
Backtracking from his support, Jones tweeted last week that he wanted to “reflect” on “the justifiable distress” caused “to Jewish people” by a play Loach directed three decades ago.
"I therefore apologize for the tone of my tweet,” Jones wrote.
The 1987 production, called Perdition, was critical of the role the Zionist movement played during the Holocaust.