Lest we forget... he WILL sit down with IRA, Hamas and Hezbollah
MR Corbyn has a long history of meeting killers, terrorist groups and other figures who approve of violence. HAMAS
Mr Corbyn called the terror group his ‘friends’ in 2009. He’s also met leaders of the organisation that has carried out a brutal campaign of abductions, torture and unlawful killings against Palestinians it accuses of ‘collaborating’ with Israel.
In 201 he attended a ‘peace conference’ in Tunisia, where he laid a wreath near the graves of Palestinian terrorists responsible for the massacre of Jewish athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
THE IRA
As a newly elected MP in 1983 he invited IRA apologist Gerry Adams to Parliament. The two men met on other occasions during the 1980s, when the IRA was at the
height of its terror campaign. He also invited two convicted IRA volunteers to tea in Westminster in 198 , just two weeks after the Brighton bomb, which killed five people at the Tory Party conference.
In 1996, the year of the Docklands and Manchester bombings, he again invited suspected IRA terrorists to Parliament. HEZBOLLAH
Officials from the Lebanese group, classified by the US government as a terror organisation and which has called for the destruction of Israel, were invited by Mr Corbyn to a meeting in 2009. He said: ‘It will be my pleasure and honour to host an event in Parliament where our friends from Hezbollah will be speaking.’
XI JINPING OF CHINA
In 2015 he attended a state banquet with President Xi Jinping of China, who has
been accused of human rights abuses. Prince Charles is believed to have refused to attend over China’s record. BASHAR AL-ASSAD OF SYRIA
The Labour leader accepted a free trip to meet President Assad of Syria funded by the Palestinian lobbyists who organised an event at which Jews were blamed for the Holocaust.
NICOLAS MADURO OF VENEZUELA
In 2006, Mr Corbyn shared a platform with the Venezuelan president. Mr Maduro has been accused of a violent crackdown on opponents which has led to hundreds of deaths and bankrupted the oil-rich country. The hardline president has called Mr Corbyn a ‘friend of Venezuela’.