Daily Mail

Corbyn’s true colours

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DURING Labour’s annual conference this year, Momentum activists clapped along when a panellist likened supporters of Israel to the Nazis, the head of a Jewish group was accused of being a ‘hard-Right racist Zionist’, and the equalities watchdog condemned the party’s failure to tackle anti-Semitism.

Meanwhile, during the general election, a Conservati­ve MP found her posters daubed with Nazi graffiti.

So you might think Jeremy Corbyn would go out of his way to prove how concerned he is about the disturbing rise in antiSemiti­sm since he took over as party leader, and to reassure British Jews.

Instead, he snubs a dinner hosted by the Israeli government to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaratio­n – which paved the way for the creation of a Jewish State.

But worse, a man who once described the terrorist group Hamas as ‘ friends’ is evidently still happy to rub shoulders with Islamist extremists.

On Wednesday night, he appeared at an event hosted by Muslim Engagement And Developmen­t, which is accused of organising a boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day, wants to destroy Israel and peddles anti-Semitic propaganda.

Britain’s young, who seem to be flocking to Mr Corbyn’s banner, should ask themselves if they really want a party with such antiSemiti­c links running this country. AFTER decades of enjoying dominance over television in the UK, having to compete against the likes of Netflix and Amazon has clearly come as a shock to the BBC. Yesterday its director-general Lord Hall warned of a ‘serious threat’ to domestic television from these digital giants. The Mail has a question. Why doesn’t the BBC drop a lot of the fringe and frankly mediocre material it produces and start producing drama that’s as good as on Netflix?

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