Hamas praises Labour leader Corbyn
May 3, 2016The British Labour party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn, suffered another embarrassment on Tuesday, after Corbyn was praised by the Hamas terrorist group for refusing to condemn both it and Hezbollah.
Corbyn, who in the past called Hamas and Hezbollah his “friends”, on Sunday night rejected calls from Jewish leaders to denounce the two terrorist organizations, vowing to continue talking to them.
It was later revealed that Corbyn had in the past glorified Fatah arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences in Israel, and compared him to Nelson Mandela.
A spokesman for Hamas quoted Tuesday by the Daily Mail hailed Corbyn for his refusal to condemn the group.
The spokesman, Taher Al-Nunu, said that Corbyn’s willingness to engage with Hamas was a “painful hit that the Zionist enemy received”.
“We welcome the declaration of the Labour Chairman and see his engagement as a very important statement that is also a painful hit that the Zionist enemy received,” he said, according to the Daily Mail.
“It comes as part of the international boycott campaign that the enemy (Israel) is suffering from,” Al-Nunu continued.
“This campaign is succeeding on both the economic and political levels and it comes at a moment that the enemy is facing difficulties in justifying its crimes against the Palestinian people,” he said.
“We consider the statements of the Labour leader to be an important message to people in Western countries that Hamas is not and will not be considered a terrorist group and our struggle is reduced to the borders of occupied Palestine,” he stressed.
Hamas, however, later attempted to retract the comments, denying Al-Nunu had given the interview, and he himself told the Middle East Eye, “I did not make any statements on this issue at all.”
The reported praise by Hamas comes amid what appear to be never-ending scandals involving anti-Semitic and anti-Israel comments by Labour members.
On Monday, the party suspended three members in one day over anti-Semitic comments, and later that day, sources in the party revealed that Labour has secretly suspended 50 of its members over anti-Semitic and racist comments in recent months.
Meanwhile on Tuesday, Israel’s Labor party – which is the major partner within the Zionist Union Knesset faction – said it was weighing severing ties with its British counterpart after fresh allegations of anti-Semitism in its ranks.
After the latest suspensions of three local councillors on Monday over comments posted on social media, a spokesman for the Israeli party said breaking off relations with British comrades was “one of the options that is being considered.”
He told AFP that the Israeli party was looking for assurances from Corbyn that he was treating the allegations with the necessary gravity.
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