Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unleashed on British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn over remarks made about the Munich massacre of 11 Israelis.
Specifically: Corbyn admitted he attended the wreath-laying of the Palestinians who were tied to these murders.
Bibi’s response?
That Corbyn ought to be condemned.
World Israel News has more:
British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is facing allegations of enabling anti-Semitism, acknowledged Monday that he was present at a wreath-laying to Palestinians linked to the murder of 11 Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
When questioned by reporters about his presence at the ceremony, Corbyn responded, “I was present when it was laid. I don’t think I was actually involved in it. I was there because I wanted to see a fitting memorial to everyone who has died in every terrorist incident everywhere because we have to end it.”
In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted Monday that “the laying of a wreath by Jeremy Corbyn on the graves of the terrorist[s] who perpetrated the Munich massacre and his comparison of Israel to the Nazis deserves unequivocal condemnation from everyone — left, right and everything in between.”
Corbyn, a longtime critic of Israel, has faced mounting criticism since the Daily Mail published photos of him holding a wreath in a Tunis cemetery in 2014, near what the newspaper said were graves of Black September members. The Palestinian terror group carried out the kidnapping and massacre of 11 at the Munich games. Several members were later killed by Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.
Corbyn has previously said he was at the cemetery to commemorate the victims of a 1985 Israeli air attack on Palestinian Liberation Organization offices in Tunis.
On Monday, he acknowledged a wreath had also been laid to “those that were killed in Paris in 1992.” PLO official Atef Bseiso, whom Israel has accused of helping to plan the Munich Olympic attack, was gunned down outside a Paris hotel that year.
The statement is unlikely to quell criticism from Jewish groups and Labour members who say Corbyn has allowed anti-Semitism to spread in the party.
“Being ‘present’ is the same as being involved,” said Labour lawmaker Luciana Berger. “Where is the apology?”
Corbyn has been accused of failing to expel party members who express anti-Semitic views and has received personal criticism for past statements, including a 2010 speech in which he compared Israel’s blockade of Gaza to Nazi Germany’s sieges of Leningrad and Stalingrad during World War II.
The dispute recently boiled over after the party proposed adopting a definition of anti-Semitism that differed from the one approved by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Labour’s version omits some of the alliance’s language related to criticism of Israel. The alliance’s definition says it is anti-Semitic to compare contemporary Israeli policies to the policies of the Nazis, a view Labour did not endorse.
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Next step: Corbyn honoring Isis ” martyrs”
I’m sure Jeremy drags out his prayer mat and Qur’an to do just that, Maranatha.
Nailed down.
Good one.
Agent Maduro Cob is pandering to the ever exponentially increasing Muslim voting bloc. Jew hatred is inherent in their terrorist training manual, the qu’ran.
Corbyn is one evil bastard.
Corbyn is a Spawn of the Devil. He is beyond evil, in the end, however, he will keep Arafat and every terrorist, despot, and evildoer company in Hell.
That’s my one comfort in all of this, as obviously the ‘authorities’ aren’t going to do their jobs and string him up
Good now everyone can see Corbyn is a raging anti-semite. He should be arrested and charged as an enabler and accessory to terrorism. Funny how he still tried to lie and claim he wants “peace” on both sides when in reality he’s chosen to be on the terrorist’s side like all Leftists who support Islam. I’m glad the Left is finally being exposed for the lovers of evil that they are.
Corbyn will not resign over this issue, his eyes are on the future of the UK.
What future? If we don’t get a Churchill, or a Bibi or Bennett, a Golda or a Thatcher, and very quickly, we have no future.
No kidding . What does Queenie say about Muslims taking over Britain?
If she’s anything like her idiot eldest child, she just can’t wait for it to happen. I hope she has a better grasp on reality than he does.
I think she must realize that muslim rule in this country wouldn’t be a good thing for her personally, I don’t suppose she gives a s**t about the rest of us.
I don’t actually ever recall her saying anything about it. The royals are not supposed to get involved in political stuff.
Not that it stopped that sad, balding little traitor william when he was spewing his praises over jordan and abbass-hole on his recent trip.
He’s a thick and treacherous as his father.
I agree he won’t resign. He doesn’t have the decency or morality to step down.
He has his little plan for the destruction of this country, and his blind hatred of Israel and Jews, and he means to follow it through to it’s very bitter end.
CORBYN HAS ALWAYS BEEN A TERRORIST ENABLER FROM THE IRA & NOW TO THE EVER PRESENT ISLAMIC TERROR GROUPS!
NOW MANY ARE HIS VOTING SUPPORT BASE!
The left has (once again) chosen to side with Muslims over Jews.
Corbyn was also a USSR vassal. After the USSR collapsed he’s like an organ torn from its body.