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Inside ‘vile’ Jeremy Corbyn rally that branded Israel as NAZIS and ‘ejected protesters’ amid Labour anti-Semitism row
JEREMY Corbyn chaired a meeting at Parliament on Holocaust Memorial Day in which Israel’s actions were compared to the Nazis — and allegedly got police to eject those who protested.
Jewish campaigners said it proved Corbyn had long-standing anti-Semitic views and should resign as Labour leader.
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Corbyn, a backbencher at the time of the 2010 meeting, also allegedly attempted to get 80-year-old Holocaust survivor Rubin Katz thrown out for raising objections.
Mr Katz recalled: “The room was brimming with raging hatred directed at Israel and at Jews not sharing the organisers’ views.
“No opposing voice was tolerated. To hold such a hate-fest on that solemn day was a travesty and to compare Jews to Nazis was odious and deeply hurtful, particularly to those who suffered and lost family.”
Mr Katz said Corbyn, who gave the meeting’s opening speech, walked down the room’s aisle with a policeman pointing out people he wanted to be removed.
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Another attendee claims Corbyn had five people removed who protested at what they considered to be anti-Semitic sentiments.
The guest of honour at the event was Hajo Meyer, an ailing Jewish survivor of Auschwitz who had become a fervent anti-Zionist.
Meyer repeatedly compared Israel’s policy against the Palestinians in Gaza to the Nazi regime in a talk, entitled The Misuse of the Holocaust for Political Purposes.
Mr Katz demanded the opportunity to challenge Meyer but was banned from speaking.
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A second speaker at the meeting was Palestinian activist Haidar Eid, an academic from Gaza University.
He claimed the Israelis had carried out a campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza.
Many who attended the meeting were also incensed by leaflets handed out at the meeting that showed Jewish women being led out of the Warsaw ghetto during World War Two alongside a picture of Arab women giving a V sign.
Mr Katz described it as “a photographic perversion” of which Hitler’s propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels would have been proud.
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Corbyn apologised for the “concerns and anxiety” caused by him chairing the meeting.
He said: “The main speaker at this Holocaust Memorial Day meeting, part of a tour entitled Never Again — For Anyone, was a Jewish Auschwitz survivor. Views were expressed which I do not accept or condone.
“In the past, in pursuit of justice for the Palestinian people and peace in Israel/Palestine, I have on occasion appeared on platforms with people whose views I completely reject. I apologise for the concerns and anxiety that this has caused.”
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FINALLY, the mask is off. Corbyn’s “kindly peacenik” facade is blown apart, exposing the vicious prejudice beneath. He has to go.
This dim, deceitful, unpleasant man chaired an event — on Holocaust Memorial Day, of all days — promoting the view that Israelis are the new Nazis.
“The room was brimming with raging hatred directed at Israel and at Jews not sharing the organisers’ views,” said a Holocaust survivor who was there.
Not only did Corbyn not challenge those advancing a grotesque anti-Semitic argument (and guess why?), he made the opening speech. Most sickeningly, he allegedly patrolled the aisle pointing out protesters to police for removal.
Leave aside the police’s appalling complicity . . . though what WERE they thinking? Here was the future Labour leader, reportedly singling out an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor for expulsion for holding views he disliked.
For three years Corbyn’s vile beliefs and associations have shocked Britain.
This new outrage, though, must surely be the last straw for self-respecting Labour members who haven’t already quit.
But Jonathan Hoffman, who was with Mr Katz at the event, dismissed the apology as a sham.
He added: “It was an utterly vile event, the most horrific anti-semitism event I have ever been to.
“There are too many examples of Corbyn associating with these vile people for his apology to have any credibility whatsoever.
“He knew exactly who these people were and what they were saying, I even emailed him beforehand to ask him not to go ahead with it and he just dismissed me.
“He apologies now because he has been caught out, no other reason. He should resign immediately.”
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Gideon Falter, chairman of Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, said the apology “rings utterly hollow”. He added: “We do not believe him.
“He is an anti-Semite, his party is institutionally anti-Semitic.”
Karen Pollock of the Holocaust Educational Trust said: “On a day when people from all backgrounds and faiths came together to remember the unique evil of the Holocaust, Mr Corbyn chose to chair an event undermining its very purpose — deliberately distorting the truth of history’s greatest crime.”
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Corbyn’s role at the 2010 event has appalled many of his own MPs. Louise Ellman, MP for Liverpool Riverside, said: “I’m disturbed to hear there is evidence Jeremy was actually at a meeting where these sorts of views were expressed.”
A source close to Corbyn disputed the claim that he had pointed out protesters to police.
The source said: “Three people were removed at different times by the police after shouting at the Holocaust survivor speaking.”
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Yesterday a video also emerged of Corbyn comparing the wartime siege of Leningrad to the current situation in Gaza — a breach of the international anti-Semitism code.
The fury over the 2010 meeting is one of a series of anti-Semitism scandals to dog Corbyn.
In 2012 he appeared on Iranian TV and appeared to express his support for more than 1,000 convicted Hamas terrorists released by Israel as part of a prisoner swap.
Corbyn described them as “brothers” and questioned whether there was a “serious case” against them.
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JEREMY Corbyn breached anti- Semitism guidelines by comparing life in Gaza to Nazi sieges of World War Two, footage suggests.
In the video from a pro-Palestinian rally, the Labour leader talks of “a whole generation who’ve been imprisoned for as long as the siege of Leningrad and Stalingrad” and calls it a war crime.
His comments in a 2010 video, when he was a backbench MP, will fuel the row over his party’s refusal to adopt international guidelines on the issue.
Under the code, it is anti-Semitic to attack Israel in this way.
A Labour spokesman said: “Jeremy was not comparing the actions of Nazis and Israelis but the conditions of civilian populations in besieged cities in wartime.”
Unearthed speech by Jeremy Corbyn would have breached Labour party's own code on anti-Semitism
Labour said: “Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party are fully committed to the support, defence and celebration of the Jewish community and its organisations.
“We understand the strong concerns raised in the Jewish community and are seeking to engage with communal organisations to build trust and confidence in our party.”
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