Daily Mail

He stood next to leader linked to rabbi killing

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THE Labour leader shared a platform with a senior member of a group who murdered a British rabbi, it emerged last night.

Jeremy Corbyn stood next to Maher al-Taher – the exiled leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – at a ceremony in 2014.

A month after they were pictured together, Taher’s group claimed responsibi­lity for a terror attack which saw four rabbis slaughtere­d in Jerusalem.

One victim was Avraham Shmuel Goldberg,

8, who was born in Liverpool. His widow Brianna Goldberg told The Times: ‘Jeremy Corbyn should absolutely not be associatin­g with men like that. They kill to satisfy their political needs. He needs to come to Israel to see how things really are.’

The PFLP had been noted as a terrorist organisati­on by the EU for two years prior to the meeting.

Following the synagogue attack, the group said: ‘No place in Jerusalem should be safe so long as the Palestinia­n people are not safe.’

A spokesman for Mr Corbyn told The Times: ‘He is, of course, completely opposed to attacks on civilians.’

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