THE HATE MONGERS CORBYN WILL MEET
With typical arrogance, he refuses to sit down to discuss Brexit with Mrs May. But as this damning dossier shows, here’s...
EVEN one of Jeremy Corbyn’s backbenchers has pointed out the shocking moral hypocrisy of his refusal to join the Prime Minister for discussions about Brexit when he’s been very happy to deal with killers and terrorist groups in the past. Mike Gapes MP said Corbyn was ‘apparently prepared to hold talks with Hamas, Hezbollah, Assad and Iran without preconditions. But not with the UK Prime Minister. Why?’ Here, ROSS CLARK charts Corbyn’s long and shameful history of meetings with men of violence and opponents of democracy...
HOLDING WREATH FOR HAMAS TERRORISTS
CORBYN called the terror group his ‘friends’ in 2009. He has also met leaders of the organisation that has carried out a campaign of abductions, torture and unlawful killings against Palestinians it accuses of collaborating with Israel.
There is no indication the Labour leader set any conditions before meeting them — such as that they renounce violence — in the way that he refuses to talk to Mrs May unless she rules out a no Deal Brexit.
He met Hamas leaders in the West Bank city of ramallah in 2010 and was photographed with Ahmad Attoun, Khaled Abu-Arafah and Muhammad Totah.
The latter two had their ID passes withdrawn by Israel after being suspected of terrorist activities.
Four years later, Corbyn attended a ‘peace conference’ at the five-star Le Palais Hotel in Tunisia, where he was snapped with a wreath in memory of Palestinian terrorists responsible for the massacre of Jewish athletes at the 1972 olympics in Munich.
Also present were Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar, who has called Jews ‘hungry dogs and wild beasts’, and other key figures such as Mousa Marzook, convicted in the U.S. of terror offences, and osama Hamdan, who has called violence against Israel ‘magnificent’. Strangely for an event calling for peace in the Middle East, it did not involve Israel.
Corbyn also attended a meeting in the Houses of Parliament, in 2015, just six months before he became Labour leader, organised by pro-Palestinian pressure group Middle East Monitor.
He sat with Daud Abdullah, a Hamaslinked figure who signed a letter calling for the royal navy to be attacked if it attempted to stop weapons being smuggled into Gaza. Abdullah also said he was prepared to blow himself up in a suicide attack, telling the BBC: ‘Sacrificing myself for Palestine is a noble cause.’
CORBYN’S EXPLANATION: Initially, he denied being involved with the wreath-laying in Tunisia, but when challenged, he came up with the much-ridiculed reason: ‘I was present when it was laid. I don’t think I was actually involved in it.’ Photos then emerged showing him holding a wreath. As for the meeting with Hamas in the Houses of Parliament, he later said he regretted calling them his ‘friends’.
PROTEST AT DRONE ATTACKS ON ISIS
THE Labour leader took part in a protest at an RAF base in Lincolnshire in 2013, calling for the Armed Forces to be banned from the ‘obscenity’ of using drones as part of the West’s war against the terror group that has killed hundreds of thousands in the Middle East. This included the use of drones against ISIS’s British executioner, Jihadi John. Indeed, the former Westminster University student seems to have been someone Corbyn wanted to be able to walk Britain’s streets, judging by an interview he gave in 2015 with Arab TV station Lua-Lua. CORBYN’S EXPLANATION: He said moves to ban jihadis from returning to Britain were ‘strange’ and ‘legally very questionable’. At a Stop the War rally (before becoming Labour leader), he said that the ISIS beheading of Alan Henning, a British aid worker, was ‘the price of jingoism’.
PAID £20,000 TO HELP IRA SUSPECT
AS A newly elected MP in 1983, Corbyn invited IRA apologist Gerry Adams to the Houses of Parliament. The two men met on other occasions during the Eighties, when the IRA was at the height of its terror campaign. Corbyn even put up £20,000 of his own money to stand bail for an IRA terror suspect facing extradition to Germany.
He also invited two convicted IRA volunteers to tea at Westminster in 1984, just two weeks after the Brighton bomb, which killed five people staying at the Grand Hotel for the Conservative Party conference.
In 1986, Corbyn was arrested outside the old Bailey during the trial of Patrick Magee — later convicted for the Brighton bombing — in a protest against the strip-search of his co- defendants. After the Brighton attack, London Labour Briefing (a far-Left monthly journal Corbyn helped run), published a reader’s letter stating: ‘What do you call four dead Tories? A start!’
The Labour leader also attended the annual gathering of the Wolfe Tone Society, which honours dead and imprisoned IRA members.
In 1986, the event programme said: ‘Force of arms is the only method capable of bringing about a free and united socialist Ireland.’ In 1987 Corbyn was at a commemoration for eight IRA men shot by the SAS as they attempted to attack a police station in Armagh.
In 1996, the year of the Docklands and Manchester bombings, Corbyn again invited several suspected IRA terrorists to Parliament and tried to host a book- signing by Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams — although this was stopped after Tony Blair threatened to eject Corbyn from the Labour Party. All