The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/08/19/exclusive-jeremy-corbyn-attended-conference-qatar-hamas-military/ report thusly on more incidents of Jeremy Corbyn appearing on platforms with terrorists, despite Jeremy Corbyn and Labour Party spokespersons stating that he has never done that:
'The Labour leader hosted a panel discussion at a conference attended by a number of senior Hamas officials, including Husam Badran, who was given a 17-year sentence for his involvement in terrorist atrocities committed during the Second Intifada between 2001 and 2002.
He was joined at the conference by Khalid Mishaal, the former political leader of Hamas, who is on a UK sanction list, and Dr Abdul Aziz Umar, who received seven life sentences for aiding in the preparation of a suicide belt.
Badran and Umar were released by the Israeli government less than 12 months before the conference as part of a prisoner exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who had been taken hostage by Hamas.
Footage uncovered by this newspaper has revealed that all three men spoke at the two-day conference in Doha, entitled the "Seminar on Palestinian Refugees in the Arab World".
Jeremy Corbyn hosting a panel discussion at the conference
In a translation provided to The Daily Telegraph, Badran can be heard telling the conference: "The nakba [day of catastrophes] which made us refugees took place via force and the return will be only viable through military and armed resistance and nothing else."
Three days after the conference, Mr Corbyn acknowledged in his regular column in the Morning Star that he had listened to speeches given by men who had been released "in return for the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit", adding that "their contribution was fascinating and electrifying".
He also confirmed in an interview with Press TV, the Iranian news channel, that he had met Umar at the conference, adding: "I met many of the brothers, including the brother who's been speaking here...when I was in Doha earlier this year".
Last night a spokesman for Mr Corbyn said: "Jeremy has a long and principled record of solidarity with the Palestinian people and engaging with actors in the conflict to support peace and justice in the Middle East. That is the right thing to do."
Jeremy Corbyn said he met Abdul Aziz Umar (pictured) at the Doha conference in a later interview with an Iranian news channel
It comes days after Mr Corbyn was accused of being an "anti-Semite" who appeared to "admire" terrorists by Prof Shaul Ladany, a Holocaust survivor who also escaped the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
Prof Ladan was joined in condemning the Labour leader by six members of the British Olympic team who competed in Munich, who said they had been appalled by his decision to attend a wreath-laying ceremony at a cemetery where men connected to the massacre are buried.
In footage obtained by this newspaper, taken in Doha in 2012, Mr Corbyn can be seen hosting a two-hour panel discussion, during which he praised the decision by an immigration tribunal to overturn a Home Office order to deport the hate preacher Raed Salah.
Salah, a cleric who was jailed in Israel for inciting anti-Jewish hatred and violence in 2008, had been arrested several months before the conference after entering the UK despite being issued with a travel ban.
Mr Corbyn, who had invited Salah for tea on the parliamentary terrace, said at the conference that the decision represented a "huge victory" for his right "to speak publicly".
In another video, the Labour leader is seen addressing a seminar minutes before Umar - who aided in the preparation of a suicide vest which killed seven people in Jerusalem 2003 - rose to speak.
Also present at the conference was Husam Badran, a former military leader of Hamas who now lives in exile in Qatar, where he serves as the group's spokesman.
According to Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Badran was a leader of Hamas's military wing in the West Bank and was responsible for executing attacks, raising and receiving funds for explosive devices, and for sending suicide bombers to carry out terror attacks on Israeli targets.
Husam Badran (pictured speaking at the conference) was arrested by Israeli forces in 2002 and was later sentenced to 17 years imprisonment
The Ministry claims that he is responsible for the bombings of the Dolphinarium discotheque, two restaurants in Jerusalem and Haifa, a train station, two buses and the Park Hotel in Netanya. The attacks resulted in the deaths of more than 100 people.
Khalid Mishaal, the most senior of the officials seen at the conference, is the former leader of the Hamas Politburo, and has repeatedly praised the use of violence against Israel.
The 62-year-old is one of four senior Hamas officials blacklisted in Britain for terrorism and terrorist financing, according to an official financial sanctions document seen by this newspaper.
Khalid Mishaal, pictured, speaking at the conference. He is on a Government sanctions list under the category 'terrorism and terrorist financing'
In a speech in December 2012, Mishaal pledged to wipe away Israel through "resistance", to take back Jerusalem "stone by stone", and give "no concession on any inch of land".
Two years later, in Gaza, he claimed that Israel had committed atrocities in the territory "twice as great as the Holocaust" and praised Palestinian groups for achieving a "balance of terror".'
Good luck finding this sort of information on the Labour Party's propaganda arm and institutionally anti Israel BBC.
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