Corbyn turns down invitation from Holocaust Museum

No anti-semitism in the Labour Party... oh,well if Baroness Charkrabarti said it (after receiving a peerage from Jezbollah) then it must be true.

It's akin to George Galloway and his sympathies towards Saddam Hussein.

That would be the same mass torturing, chemical weapons dropping, total nutcase Saddam Hussein who we're all familiar with.

Edit: Before anyone says it I'm not condoning the 2003 debacle.

After six months working as a policy adviser for Jeremy Corbyn, it was clear to me that the way Corbyn and those around him think about Jewish people is shaped by a frenetic anti-imperialism, focused on Israel and America. Without a hint of irony, one senior aide asked that I remove the greeting “Chag Kasher VeSameach” from Corbyn’s Passover message, for fear that Corbyn’s supporters might think the use of Hebrew “Zionist”.

I'm really hoping the person who posted that was joking, otherwise I've lost all hope

This is simply a media smear. Shami Chakrabarti's report clearly said there is not antisemitism in the Labour Party.

The 1988 charter is their current organisational constitution.

Hamas has repeatedly said it has no interest in a long-term peace, only in a short-term ceasefire.

Zionism means the Jews are entitled to a state in the Levant, which they are.

Not all of Israel belongs to Jewish people, there is plenty of land in the north which belongs to Palestinians

who are the same Palestinians who lived there prior to 1948.

There was no state of Palestine.

In 1948 the UN proposed a partition so that there would be a Jewish majority state and a Muslim majority state.

Instead of accepting it, the Arabs and Palestinians declared war on Israel promising to exterminate it. They started a war and they lost.

After the 1948 war, Gaza and West Bank were in the hands of Egypt and Jordan respectively. In 1967, Egypt ordered the UN peacekeepers in Sinai who were keeping the two sides apart to leave.

It mobilised its army and moved troops up to the Israeli border, made repeated broadcasts saying it was going to destroy Israel

and then blockaded the Strait of Tiran which Israel had repeatedly said it would consider a cassus belli.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/10/jeremy-corbyn-israel-yad-vashem

Ugh. Why does he have to be so dishonest? The invitation was made almost 6 months ago, and he said his diary was too full. It wasn't too full for him to take a holiday during the middle of the EU referendum campaign. Also, the invitation was made almost half a year ago but he couldn't find some time in the subsequent 8 months of the year and fit it in sometime?

Corbyn may be extreme and have irrational beliefs, but holy hell, the insane stretches that Israel-supporters go to to justify themselves.

"Hey, person who doesn't believe the same thing as I do - my beliefs tell me that this land is mine so maybe just move along. Also, prepare to watch your kids get blown to pieces if you try to fight back." It's Islamic State-level of insanity. I mean, imagine if they'd tried that with a Christian country (haha, they wouldn't have dared)? They'd have been wiped out.

Love this North Korea-esque guilty by association witch-hunt against Corbyn.

Anyway, I for one applaud Corbyn for this move.It shows consistency in values and we always moan about politicians flip-flopping on issues. I mean I don't think his good friend (Corbyn's words, not mine) Ibrahim "so-called Holocaust" Hewitt or Holocaust denier Paul Eisen - whose openly-anti-semitic group Corbyn donated to, would have been best pleased if he'd attended. Neither would Stephen Sizer, who Corbyn found the time to write to Church of England authorities to defend Sizer, who attended a Holocaust denial conference in Jakarta. Not would Holocaust denier James Thring, a speaker at an event Corbyn himself hosted in 2014. I also don't think it would have please his chum "The Jews did 9/11" Raed Salah, who he nauseatingly gushed about. That's the same Raed Salah who in 2011 boasted about drawing swastikas on blackboards to intimidate Jewish teachers.

So you see, he is simply being true to his pals. God bless you, Jeremy.

Yup, because pointing out things Corbyn has actually said and done is a "witch hunt". The level of whiney, butthurt victimhood from Corbynites and their other extremist sympathisers is genuinely pathetic

@AlexanderHam Why is this really such an issue?

No, it isn't. They don't have one. The Hamas Charter was never given the same binding manifesto status that say, Fatah's, was.

Private land ownership and political territory are quite different concepts

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Which was little more than posturing

and the Israeli government knew it - several Israeli cabinet ministers and generals from 1967 have openly admitted that they did not believe an Egyptian attack was coming

“Those who survive will remain in Palestine. I estimate that none of them will survive.” - Ahmed Shuqayri, PLO Chair

"The existence of Israel is an error that must be rectified. This is our opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948. Our goal is clear—to wipe Israel off the face of the map. We shall, God willing, meet in Tel Aviv and Haifa.” - President Abdul Arif of Iraq

"The withdrawal of the UN forces means ‘make way, our forces are on their way to battle.’” - Ibrahim Makhous, Syrian Foreign Minister

"We are now ready to confront Israel. We are now ready to deal with the entire Palestine question. The issue now at hand is not the Gulf of Aqaba, the Straits of Tiran or the withdrawal of UNEF, but… the aggression which took place in Palestine in 1948 with the collaboration of Britain and the United States." President Nasser of Egypt

Which means nothing. Israel has no authority on what is and isn't a casus belli.

Anyway, I for one applaud Corbyn for this move.It shows consistency in values and we always moan about politicians flip-flopping on issues. I mean I don't think his good friend (Corbyn's words, not mine) Ibrahim "so-called Holocaust" Hewitt or Holocaust denier Paul Eisen - whose openly-anti-semitic group Corbyn donated to, would have been best pleased if he'd attended. Neither would Stephen Sizer, who Corbyn found the time to write to Church of England authorities to defend Sizer, who attended a Holocaust denial conference in Jakarta. Not would Holocaust denier James Thring, a speaker at an event Corbyn himself hosted in 2014. I also don't think it would have please his chum "The Jews did 9/11" Raed Salah, who he nauseatingly gushed about. That's the same Raed Salah who in 2011 boasted about drawing swastikas on blackboards to intimidate Jewish teachers.

So you see, he is simply being true to his pals. God bless you, Jeremy.