HOW CORBYNISTAS SHOW THEIR LOVE

THERE is a remarkable dissonance between the man Jeremy Corbyn professes to be — last week he claimed to have dedicated his ‘whole life’ to the cause of peace — and the company he keeps.

There is no elected British politician who has spent more time courting the company of rabid anti-Semites, notably his ‘friends’ in Hamas and Hezbollah. Theirs is not the ‘kinder, gentler politics’ that Corbyn claims to espouse — unless torturing and then throwing the tied up bodies of your enemies off the tops of buildings counts as kind and gentle.

Interestingly, the same peculiar self-delusion (or hypocrisy) is displayed by many of the Labour leader’s most passionate admirers.

This has become particularly clear in the dispute between Corbyn and the Jewish Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge. Many of her family perished in the Holocaust, and she said she was reminded of this by some of her party leader’s associations — which as the Mail demonstrated last week, included holding a wreath as he stood beside the graves of the organisers of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in, of all places, Germany.

This appears to have enraged one Nicholas Courtney, who on Twitter identifies himself with the letters JC4PM (that is, Jeremy Corbyn for Prime Minister) and whose touching motif is a giant heart with a banner declaring ‘Choose Love’. In response to Margaret Hodge’s reference to the Holocaust and her concerns about Mr Corbyn’s long-time associations with those sworn to the complete destruction of the Jewish state, Mr Courtney tweeted the following: ‘Get over it, s***head. C**p happens. I don’t know but maybe Hitler saw something he didn’t like, who knows. I do know that I don’t like what the state of Israel has done to Palestine for a long time, simples.’

Ah, more of the kinder, gentler politics of the Corbynistas. Choose love . . . but hate Jews.