The British government has released a series of documents written by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn calling Israeli politicians “criminals” and calling for them to be banned, according to the UK Jewish News.
In a letter sent to then foreign secretary William Hague in 2013, Corbyn, who did not lead the party at that point, asked that he “stop allowing Israel’s criminal politicians to come to our country freely.”
He also asked Hague to “end the siege of Gaza” and pressure the BBC to skew its coverage to be more sympathetic to Palestinians.
“I cannot help wondering how long successive governments are going to stand by pretending that an occupying power of so many years should be treated in the same way as the people whose land is not only occupied, but routinely confiscated,” he wrote.
A year earlier, he called on London to penalize Israel via a trade agreement.
Corbyn is known as a strident critic of Israel, and has fought in recent weeks to defend his party from charges of rampant anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
The documents were released after a freedom of information request.
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