This article by Ron Prossor in The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/09/11/accused-anti-semitism-hating-israel-befriending-terrorist-groups/ includes this:
'As long as the target is Israelis and Jews, terror groups can count on Corbyn. He's an equal opportunities terrorist sympathiser.
... Demonstrations outside my embassy turned violent. Hezbollah flags flew. "We are all Hamas", speakers chanted, praising an organisation with the stated aim of killing Jews – an aim it has often fulfilled on buses, in nightclubs or restaurants.
Jeremy Corbyn was not the most charismatic of the politicians who attended anti-Israel gatherings, or the smartest, but he was without doubt one of the most committed. As was his Director of Strategy, Seamus Milne. Hamas "will not be broken" bellowed Milne at a demonstration in 2009.
Corbyn can't solve Labour's anti-Semitism problem, because he embodies it. He's called Hamas and Hezbollah friends and invited for tea on the terrace of the House of Commons a hate preacher who spouts the blood libel - that Jews kill non-Jewish children to use their blood for Passover food. He's been a paid presenter on Press TV, the Iranian government broadcaster that pushes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial. It was Press TV "journalists" who last week infiltrated the Enfield North Labour Party to live stream the vote of no confidence in Joan Ryan.
It doesn't matter where they're from or what they stand for. Whether they are PLO, Lebanese Hezbollah or the Palestinian Islamists of Hamas, as long as the target is Israelis and Jews, terror groups can count on Corbyn. He's an equal opportunities terrorist sympathiser.
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Labour's NEC last week adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, but only after adding the unnecessary caveat that it does not preclude "freedom of expression on Israel and the rights of Palestinians". The caveat will enable the party to continue providing cover for anti-Semites rather than protection for Jews. If Corbyn was judged by the terms of the IHRA definition, it would be hard to justify his presence as a member of the party, let alone its leader.
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Corbyn didn't invent the crank politics of conspiracy theory and Jew-hatred. But he has taken it from the fringe meetings of the far-Left and placed it on the front-benches of the House of Commons. This is not just an issue for the Labour Party, or for a British Jewish Community feeling threatened and vulnerable. Corbyn is an embarrassment for Britain. Around the world, all who, as I do, love and admire Britain are watching and hoping that the British public, famed for their decency, tolerance and sense of fair play, stand together and say, enough is enough. '
Don't expect Ron Prossor's comments to be reported by the Labour Party's propaganda arm, and antisemitic by at least one of the IHRA examples, BBC.
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