Holocaust ruse rings hollow...

UTTERLY cynical, yes, but party spin doctors clearly thought it a clever ruse to defumigate the stench of anti- Semitism by inviting a Jewish victim of the nazis to address conference.

Former labour MP and now life peer lord (Alf) dubs, pictured, 85, is a tireless campaigner against anti-Semitism and he told movingly how he escaped from the persecution of Jews in Czechoslovakia on a Kindertransport train in the summer of 1939, when he was six.

he said: ‘i was very tense because parents were all waving their children off. My mother had been refused permission to leave. She eventually got out, but we didn’t know it at the time.’

When the Jews got to holland, there was cheering because, he said, ‘we were out of reach of the nazis’.

however, this carefully stage-managed appearance clashed embarrassingly with the sight of Jeremy Corbyn outside the conference hall sharing a joke with activist Miko Peled.

The controversial israeli-American author has encouraged people to question whether the holocaust happened and has said Jews have a reputation ‘for being sleazy thieves’.