New photo from Munich killers’ ceremony shows Corbyn beside terror leader
In picture from controversial 2014 wreath laying event, UK Labour is seen next to PFLP’s Maher al Taher, weeks before group killed 5 in terror attack at Jerusalem synagogue
Among those who participated in a controversial event attended by British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in 2014 was the leader-in-exile of a Palestinian terror group, a photo released Wednesday showed.
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 October 2014 event, in which he was photographed laying a wreath near the terrorists’ grave, has already caused an uproar, provoking fierce reactions from British Jews and Israeli politicians alike.
In November of that same year, 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 worshipers — 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 eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber.
The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jeremy Corbyn shared a platform with a senior official from a terrorist group that murdered a British rabbi in a Synagogue attack a month later https://t.co/utXuAZh160
— The Times of London (@thetimes) August 16, 2018
Corbyn has attempted to downplay his involvement in the wreath-laying ceremony, telling Sky News that “I was present when [the wreath] was laid. I don’t think I was actually involved in it.”
He has also gone on the offensive against critics, issuing a scathing critique of Israel after being publicly reprimanded by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week. Corbyn said Netanyahu’s “claims about my actions and words are false” and that “what deserves unequivocal condemnation is the killing of over 160 Palestinian protesters in Gaza by Israeli forces since March, including dozens of children.”
The revelation of Corbyn’s participation in the ceremony wasn’t the only controversy to engulf the longtime socialist activist last week. An old clip that surfaced several days earlier showed Corbyn saying in a 2011 interview with the Iranian Press TV station that the BBC has “a bias towards saying that Israel is a democracy in the Middle East, Israel has a right to exist, Israel has its security concerns.”
These revelations follow intense scrutiny of Corbyn’s past and present statements about Israel and anti-Semitism, and his alleged failure to curb resurgent anti-Semitism within his party. Last month, Labour pointedly decided not to adopt parts of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of anti-Semitism that related to Israel.
In an editorial published on its website, Britain’s Jewish Chronicle, accused anyone defending Corbyn’s leadership of “demonstrably defending a man who allies with terrorists — and then lies if it becomes an embarrassment.”
“There are many fine Labour MPs who are horrified at being tarred with his brush. But the plain fact is that as long as they continue to take the Labour whip they will be — and will deserve to be. They must act or forever be damned.”
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