After snub, Israel-linked security firm says thanks but no thanks to UK Labour party

An Israel-linked security firm turns down an offer to provide security to the upcoming UK Labor party conference after it was dropped two months ago for ties to the Jewish State — only asked again because the party could not find a replacement, according to Sky News.

Labour’s dropping of the British-Danish G4S security multinational firm followed a controversial vote last year by members of its National Executive Committee, leaving the party with no fixed arrangements for the September 25 event.

G4S has faced criticism over its involvement in Israeli prisons where Palestinians are held. The Israeli lawmaker Hilik Bar wrote in a letter to a Labour colleague complaining about reports that suggested the Labour boycott was over Israel.

With no security firm to handle the conference, the UK Home Office and police could shut down the event. Three other companies declined the offer of a contract and one withdrew its bid after carrying out a risk assessment, according to the Telegraph report.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who in 2009 called Hezbollah and Hamas his “friends,” has called for sanctions against the Jewish state for what he regarded as its violations of international law. He has since regretted calling the anti-Semitic terrorist groups his friends amid scathing criticism on his conduct by leaders of British Jewry, who have accused him of both encouraging anti-Semitic rhetoric with his policies on Israel and of whitewashing the hate speech problems they said this creates within Labour.