From 2015 in Politico https://www.politico.eu/article/labour-hamas-london-ira/
'James Thring, a notorious 9/11 "truther" and associate of the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, was allowed to take the stage at a pro-Palestinian event hosted by Corbyn in Parliament.In his five-minute speech, Thring — who has referred to "Jewish elders" controlling the world's financial markets — stated that a Palestinian army should be created, armed and equipped. He also boasted of having close connections to the Chinese authorities, whom he was also lobbying to provide weapons to the Palestinians.
When I questioned Corbyn about this at the time, he said that he had no prior knowledge that Thring was going to speak. The official speaker was, he said, running late, and Thring had taken the stage in his absence. Corbyn didn't respond to requests for comment for this article.
"This meeting took on a life of its own due to a late speaker," he told me at the time, "causing much administrative confusion."
But the fact that the platform fell naturally to Thring, and that he was not asked to step down from it, raises questions about the climate of the meeting.
Moreover, the headlining latecomer, Max Blumenthal, was not exactly moderate; it was he who created the hashtag #JSIL, to equate Jews with the Islamic State.'
Any pro Israel Jew should be under no illusion as to the stand that a Jeremy Corbyn led Labour government would take on the Middle East.
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