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Sunday, August 12, 2018
UK home secretary urges Corbyn’s ouster over visit to terrorists’ graves
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBritain’s Home Secretary, the Conservative politician Sajid Javid, slams Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for his 2014 visit to the graves of Palestinian terrorists.
“If this was the leader of any other major political party, he or she would be gone by now,” Javid says in a Twitter post.
If this was the leader of any other major political party, he or she would be gone by now https://t.co/q1oa07Rngd
— Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) August 12, 2018
Corbyn has been under renewed criticism since Saturday, when the Daily Mail newspaper published photos of him holding a wreath during a 2014 ceremony at a Tunisian cemetery.
It appears from the snapshots that Corbyn was standing near the graves of Palestinian terrorists involved in the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
In 2017, the Sunday Times revealed that in an October 2014 article published on the radical left-wing website Morning Star, Corbyn recalled a visit to Tunisia where he marked the anniversary of Israel’s 1985 attack on the Palestine Liberation Organization’s headquarters there, laying wreaths at a cemetery commemorating Palestinians said killed by Israeli forces in various incidents.
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