Jeremy Corbyn laid wreath at terror grave with leader of group who murdered British rabbi in Synagogue attack a month later
The Labour leader was pictured next to Maher al-Taher, leader-in-exile of the PFLP, at the ceremony in October 2014 – in November they killed four rabbis in Jerusalem
JEREMY Corbyn laid a wreath at the grave of terrorist masterminds alongside the leader of a group who murdered a British rabbi a month later.
The Labour leader was pictured next to Maher al-Taher, leader-in-exile of proscribed Palestinian terror organisation the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, at the ceremony in Tunis in October 2014.
In November of that year two of their men killed four rabbis in a Synagogue during morning prayers in Jerusalem.
One of those was Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, a 68-year-old father-of-six originally from Liverpool, who had retired to Israel.
Last night his widow hit out at the Labour boss, telling : “Jeremy Corbyn should absolutely not be associating with men like that.
“They kill to satisfy their political needs. He needs to come to Israel to see how things really are.”
Mr Corbyn and Mr al-Taher were both invited by the official Palestinian Authority delegation to the cemetery in the Tunisian capital.
After attending a “peace conference” in a five-star hotel, they laid wreaths to the men buried there – including those who masterminded the 1972 Olympics massacre.
Weeks later Mr al-Taher’s PFLP group claimed responsibility for the murder of Mr Goldberg and three American-born rabbis, saying it was “a natural response to the ongoing racist policies and crimes of the occupation”.
Two men had rushed into the synagogue with knives and a gun, with an Israeli policeman also getting killed in the attack, which was condemned around the world.
Mr Goldberg’s cousin, Michelle Hirschfield, said Mr Corbyn should not have been “condoning terrorists” and that he was unfit to be Prime Minister.
It was the latest in a string of killings by the PFLP targeting Israeli civilians, which had seen it be officially designated as a terrorist organisation for two years by the EU before Mr Corbyn met Mr al-Taher.
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn said: “Jeremy attended the conference convened by the president of Tunisia to support Palestinian rights and to bring together Palestinian factions to unite for a peaceful and just settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
“He is, of course, completely opposed to attacks on civilians.”
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And former Prime Minister Brown told Mr Corbyn he “has got to change” to urgently end Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis.
One of his own MPs said he could be gone within a month due to his refusal to apologise for laying the wreath – and failed six times when asked to say if he was fit to become PM.
