British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn met with the leader-in-exile of a Palestinian terror group only weeks before its members carried out an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue in which six people were killed.
The Times of London published a picture of Corbyn standing next to Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) chief Maher al Taher at a commemoration ceremony for the Black September terrorists who took part in the 1972 massacre of 11 Israelis at the Munich Olympics.
Corbyn’s participation in the event, in which he was photographed laying a wreath near the terrorists’ grave, has already caused an international uproar, provoking fierce reactions from British Jews and Israeli politicians alike.
Police and ZAKA crews outside the synagogue, where two terrorists attacked Jewish congregants during prayer on November 18, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/ flash 90)
In November 2014, two Palestinian terrorists armed with a gun, axes and knives entered the Bnei Torah Kehillat Yaakov synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood and began killing indiscriminately.
Five worshippers — including three Americans and a British citizen — and a Druze police officer who responded to the incident, were killed. Police killed both assailants, who were identified as residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber and members of the PFLP.
— JTA
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