New low for Corbyn, the terror apologist

IN one picture, he holds a memorial wreath. In another, his head is bowed and his hands are upturned, apparently in prayer.

It is just four years ago and Jeremy Corbyn is paying homage at the graves of three Palestinian fanatics behind the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and officials at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Even for a man with a long history as an apologist for terror, who cosied up to the IRA and called Hamas his ‘friends’, this is a new and sickening low.

The fact that Mr Corbyn attended this gruesome ceremony in Tunis first emerged during last year’s election campaign. But striking new images – first published by this paper on Saturday – expose what Labour denied at the time: that Mr Corbyn was at a commemoration for vile PLO terrorists. In the front row in every frame, he appears to be a guest of honour. As Mr Corbyn must have known, Munich was a gruesome atrocity. Eight balaclavaclad members of the Black September group stormed the apartments where the athletes and their coaches were sleeping. Two were butchered to death on the spot and the remaining nine were beaten then died during a failed rescue attempt. So why was Mr Corbyn there? His explanation is that he was remembering the 47 Palestinians killed in an Israeli air strike on a PLO base in Tunisia in 1985. Yet the images show the monument to the air strike victims is some considerable distance from where he is standing beside the graves of three Black September ‘martyrs’.

Not for a minute does this paper accept the explanation that he was ‘copying out of respect’ those around him as they pray. No, the man who declined to sing the national anthem at a Battle of Britain memorial service is solemnly joining in the tribute.

Most implicating of all are Mr Corbyn’s own words, in an article for the communist Morning Star newspaper at the time, in which he mentioned the air strike, but added that wreaths were also laid ‘on the graves of others killed by Mossad agents in Paris in 1991’.

There were no terrorists killed by Mossad in Paris in 1991, but that year the very same three Black September terrorists were assassinated in Tunis. Isn’t it highly likely it is they to whom Mr Corbyn is referring, and he has made a mistake with the year?

Yet days after the Mail confronted Mr Corbyn with the damning evidence, his response is the same hollow denial, and does not address his own statement at the time. Today Ilana Romano, whose husband Yossef, a champion weightlifter, was shot during the siege then butchered by the terrorists, rightly describes the visit as ‘disgusting’. Will he now apologise, as she urges? We’re not holding our breath.

Under Mr Corbyn’s leadership Labour has sunk deep into a sewer of anti-Semitism, fuelled by the poisonous ideology of the hard Left. It is that very same deranged world view – in which every enemy of the West is a friend – that leads to Mr Corbyn paying homage at the graves of the killers of innocent Israeli Jews.