Jeremy Corbyn refuses to condemn Hamas ‘friends’ - watch
By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARDPublished: OCTOBER 9, 2023 03:17Updated: OCTOBER 9, 2023 05:24 JEREMY CORBYN, the former Labour Party leader, speaks at a pro-Palestine demonstration outside Downing Street in London last year. (photo credit: HENRY NICHOLLS/REUTERS)
Corbyn called for an end of "the occupation of Palestine," claiming it was the background to the whole attack.
Jeremy Corbyn, who was fired from the United Kingdom’s Labour Party for antisemitism, has refused to condemn Hamas’ attacks against Israeli civilians.
“Yesterday, I sent out a statement calling for a ceasefire, calling for peace and calling for an end to the occupation of Palestine, which of course is fundamentally the background to the whole issue,” Corbyn told journalists. “Obviously, all attacks are wrong…”
'Do you condemn Hamas?'Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refuses to say if he condemns Hamas but insists 'obviously all attacks are wrong' when questioned in Liverpool https://t.co/Hve2m5YCHKpic.twitter.com/eAYybIWuYb
Corbyn, on October 7, released a post on X stating that: “The unfolding events in Israel and Palestine are deeply alarming. We need an immediate ceasefire and urgent de-escalation. And we need a route out of this tragic cycle of violence: ending the occupation is the only means of achieving a just and lasting peace.”Advertisement
The unfolding events in Israel and Palestine are deeply alarming.We need an immediate ceasefire and urgent de-escalation.And we need a route out of this tragic cycle of violence: ending the occupation is the only means of achieving a just and lasting peace.
Jeremy Corbyn participating in Munich Massacre terrorist's memorial, Tunis 2014 (credit: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/HM)
Jeremy Corbyn’s relationship with Hamas terrorists
Since Corbyn’s statement, resurfaced clips have been shared online of Corbyn describing Hamas and Hezbollah as "friends." Corbyn had invited the two groups, who are registered as terrorist organizations, to speak at an event in parliament.
“It will be my pleasure, my honor,” Corbyn said at the prospect of the terrorists’ visit.
Remember that the murderers Hamas have influential 'friends' in this country. pic.twitter.com/mKn8Ukxcn0
— Corbyn in the Times / Crime from Times Past (@TimesCorbyn) October 8, 2023
At a political festival hosted alongside an annual Labour conference, cheers erupted as a speaker celebrated Hamas’ attacks against civilians, according to the Jewish Chronicle.Advertisement
The applause was inspired by a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, Hannah Elsouda, whom said that she was “proud to be speaking at such an historic moment”, adding that “our Palestinian resistance has once again taken the failed Zionist entity by surprise and has declared enough is enough”.
Another cheer followed when Elsouda said that “the Palestinian resistance crossed the fence that contained more than a million refugees … so are we only willing to support Palestinians rising up when they are held at the fence and shot down?
“Or are we serious about the return, the liberation of colonised lands? These are the questions of our time and we have a responsibility to rise up and do the bare minimum, a colonise people’s right to resist.”
