Jeremy Corbyn
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn attended 2012 Qatar conference with Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal, in addition to terrorist leaders behind Jerusalem pizzeria and Tel Aviv nightclub attacks that killed dozens of Israelis in 2001, reports “The Telegraph.”
“The Times of London” published a photo of Corbyn next to Maher al-Taher, the leader-in-exile of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian, just weeks before members of the terror group carried out a bloody attack on a Jerusalem synagogue that killed six people.
“I was present when it was laid, I don’t think I was actually involved in it. I was there because I wanted to see a fitting memorial to everyone who has died in every terrorist incident everywhere,” Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said in an interview with Sky News.
The declaration by Christians United for Israel comes amid three Jewish newspapers in the United Kingdom accusing Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn of being an “existential threat” to British Jewry.
The amended version of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism adopted by Labour leaves out examples of anti-Semitism that relate to support for Israel.
At a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, several Labour MPs attacked the move to adopt a new definition of anti-Semitism backed by General Secretary Jennie Formby.
Posting to Twitter during a visit to Jordanian refugee camps on the border with Syria, Corbyn said “the next Labour government will recognize Palestine as a state as one step towards a genuine two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.”
“The Labour Party is seen by far too many people in the Jewish community as being racist right now,” said Adam Langleben, a Labour councillor who lost his seat on the Barnet council in northwest London.
In a wide-ranging interview, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says that anti-Semitism in the Labour Party “is a real problem”; the world must learn history’s lessons on allowing dictators to remain in power; and sees U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem as part of “bigger strategy.”
Israeli Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay wrote a letter to Corbyn to inform him of the decision, emphasizing that the suspension only applies to him and not the U.K. Labour Party as a whole.
Writing to the leaders of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) and of the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC), Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said he accepted the organizations’ agenda for a meeting. “I place no limitations on the points you would wish to raise and am happy for the agenda to cover the issues you’ve already outlined,” he wrote.
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the British Labour Party, said it was “very interesting talking to a lot of young people about their experiences of modern Britain, and I learned a lot. Isn’t that a good thing?”
