Corbyn has no moral authority to condemn attacks, claims Hunt
LABOUR LEADER Jeremy Corbyn would have no moral authority to condemn terrorist attacks on British citizens if he ever became prime minister because of the ongoing antiSemitism controversy, according to Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Mr Corbyn came under attack from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday after it emerged that he attended a ceremony where a wreath was laid in memory of Palestinians suspected of being behind the Munich Olympics massacre.
Mr Corbyn has acknowledged he was present at an event at the Palestinian Martyrs Cemetery in Tunisia in 2014, but said he did not think he was involved in the wreath-laying and was there in memory of Palestinians killed in an Israeli air strike.
Supporters insisted he had made clear his abhorrence for the 1972 Munich attack, when 11 Israeli athletes were killed, and condemned all terrorist acts.
However, writing on Twitter, Mr Hunt said: “If Jeremy Corbyn thinks terrorism is justified for the causes he believes in, how would he as prime minister have the moral authority to condemn terrorist murders of British citizens? Unbelievable and shocking.”
The row originally erupted after the Daily Mail published pictures of Mr Corbyn holding a wreath in the cemetery, which it said were taken in front of a plaque honouring the founder of the Black September terror group.
Labour said he had attended the event to remember victims of a 1985 Israeli air strike on Palestinian Liberation Organisation offices in Tunis.
However, in a highly unusual intervention, he was accused by Mr Netanyahu of laying a wreath at the grave of one of the terrorists responsible for the Munich attack.