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nycbos

(6,430 posts)
6. Are you kidding
Sun Nov 10, 2019, 10:29 AM
Nov 2019

He invited to Parliament a Palestinian Islamist, Raed Salah, who has suggested Jews were absent from the World Trade Center on 9/11. Corbyn called him an “honored citizen.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/opinion/an-anti-semitism-of-the-left.html?_r=0

He " once described it as his “honour and pleasure” to host “our friends” from Hamas and Hezbollah in parliament"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/13/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership-foreign-policy-antisemitism

Yet negotiation is not on Hamas’s agenda, as Corbyn ought to know. In its charter Hamas states: “Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement… There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad.”

It isn’t a peaceful negotiated solution that Hamas wants; it’s the destruction of the Jews. Here is a direct quote from Hamas’s charter: “The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: ‘The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!’”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/13/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership-foreign-policy-antisemitism

Written a letter defending Stephen Sizer, the vicar disciplined by the Church of England for linking to an article on social media entitled 9/11: Israel Did It;

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/13/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership-foreign-policy-antisemitism

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Like trump, for sale is big, but there may be more. empedocles Nov 2019 #1
If only Corbyn wasn't a raging antisemite. nycbos Nov 2019 #2
It's so easy to make heinous allegations like that from the comfort of anonymity. Denzil_DC Nov 2019 #4
Voters are more concerned with Corbyn's nothing stand on Brexit crazytown Nov 2019 #5
I think you're right. Count me in on that. n/t Denzil_DC Nov 2019 #7
Are you kidding nycbos Nov 2019 #6
You jumped into a thread in the UK Group about very serious allegations about the Tory Party Denzil_DC Nov 2019 #8
Antisemitism unites the far right and the far left. nycbos Nov 2019 #12
You quoted an article from a journalist with vested interests Denzil_DC Nov 2019 #13
The article says "Corbyn may not have an antisemitic bone in his body," nycbos Nov 2019 #14
Yes, I'd read the article before I quoted from it. Denzil_DC Nov 2019 #15
If something was one or two lapses in judgement I might agree with you. nycbos Nov 2019 #16
So don't vote for him. Denzil_DC Nov 2019 #17
Oh, and since you've gone quiet for now (may have better things to do, I don't know), Denzil_DC Nov 2019 #11
Doggone! This sounds somewhat familiar. keithbvadu2 Nov 2019 #3
Putin is buying his way into other countries' politics BigmanPigman Nov 2019 #9
Since this thread looks like it may attract DUers who don't visit the UK Group regularly, Denzil_DC Nov 2019 #10
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