I24 https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/182208-180820-exclusive-jeremy-corbyn-s-secret-trip-to-israel-to-meet-hamas report:
'Jeremy Corbyn visited Israel and the West Bank in November 2010 with an Islamist lobby group to meet senior Hamas officials, and failed to declare the funding for the trip in violation of parliamentary rules, i24NEWS can reveal.
The Labour leader, then a backbencher, made the trip from 5-9 November 2010 as part of a delegation with Islamist lobby group Middle East Monitor (MEMO) and met two groups of Hamas parliamentarians.
But there is no record of Corbyn's visit to Israel in the British Parliament's Register of Members' Financial Interests, even though a colleague on the trip declared that the it cost above the threshold required for MPs to report gifts.
Rules at the time required MPs to declare any gifts above £660 ($840). Corbyn's fellow Labour MP Andrew Slaughter declared the total cost of flights and accommodation for the same trip as £927, which he said was paid for by Friends of Al-Aqsa and Middle East Monitor.
MEMO has since deleted evidence of Corbyn's visit from the internet, but i24NEWS obtained its original report. The document refers to Israel as "the Zionist state" and accuses it of "apartheid", charging it with performing "ethnic cleansing" in Jerusalem and planning "a forced mass Palestinian expulsion from the area". It also calls for international pressure on Israel, which it says could include Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS).'
Interesting but not to the Labour Party's propaganda arm and institutionally anti Israel BBC.
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