WHEN NICK GRIFFIN MET HEZBOLLAH
THE FORMER leader of the far-right British National Party was among a delegation to meet a senior official from the proscribed terror group Hezbollah, the JC can reveal.
Nick Griffin was photographed with a delegation from the rightwing European parliamentary group Alliance for Freedom and Peace (APF) at a meeting with Hezbollah foreign affairs chief Ammar Al-Moussawi in Beirut on Sunday.
During their visit to Lebanon the delegation also visited the memorial garden in Dahieh, Beirut, and placed a wreath on the graves of Hezbollah “martyrs”.
According to a report from the Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri), the group — which also included APF President and former Italian MP and MEP Roberto Fiore, German MEP and NDP MP Udo Voigt, and Belgian political activist Hervé Van Laetham — expressed support for Hezbollah and “its fight against Israel, terrorism and imperialism”.
Mr Fiore later said: “It has been an honour to meet today the representative of Hezbollah, Mr Ammar Al-Moussawi.
“We expressed the European support for Hezbollah and the Lebanese government in their efforts towards peace and in the conflict with Israel.
“Everyone must know that there are millions of Europeans who completely share your aspirations for peace and are your partners in your struggle with the Zionist trends.”
Last month, Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced that he had moved to proscribe Hezbollah in its entirety using terror laws “to protect the British people”.
But in a Commons vote, Jeremy Corbyn failed to issue a three-line whip to force Labour MPs to back the move — and also issued a statement questioning the decision to proscribe the group, suggesting it was politically motivated.
Mr Corbyn once infamously described Hezbollah as his “friends”.
After he was expelled from the BNP in 2014, Mr Griffin has regularly resorted to attacks on alleged Zionist power and control. Embarrassingly for Mr Corbyn, he has also supported some of the Labour leader’s own questionable remarks on Zionism.