YouTube has been criticised for running antisemitic adverts from a group that has defended Holocaust denial.

The Times identified ads from Deir Yassin Remembered, a “hate group” that Jeremy Corbyn has distanced himself from, running before videos about the Middle East.

It follows this newspaper’s previous investigation that found hundreds of antisemitic videos on the Google-owned website. Unlike in those cases, the latest videos would have been reviewed by Google and approved as “appropriate” to run as adverts. The clips, which played automatically before videos selected by viewers, deny Israel’s legitimacy, compare its actions to Nazi Germany’s and claim that “Zionists” have brought the threat of “nuclear holocaust” upon Israel. Experts said the videos were “clearly antisemitic”. While the ads don’t question the Holocaust, they