It's deeper than that. My uncle was a Middle East correspondent for them (and the FT) during the Iraq war. Much editorial is actual defined by the US state department. If you don't follow, you go.
This is appalling, but the Guardian also helped caused this mess. Thing is it didn't affect their opinions before so they used it as weapon. Until they start to drop the idea that certain ideas cant be discussed, they are a bunch of low IQ hypocrites.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/03/the-myth-of-the-free-speech-crisis