'INEXCUSABLE'
Jewish Labour MP Luciana Berger slams Jeremy Corbyn for claiming UK ‘Zionists’ have ‘no sense of English irony’
She described the leftie leader's comments - made in a 2013 speech - as 'inexcusable'
A JEWISH Labour MP has slammed Jeremy Corbyn after a video emerged showing him accusing British Zionists of having "no sense of English irony".
Luciana Berger said the Labour leader's comments, made in 2013, were "inexcusable".
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In the clip the leftie leader said: "[British Zionists] clearly have two problems. One is they don't want to study history, and secondly, having lived in this country for a very long time, probably all their lives, they don't understand English irony either."
He added: "They needed two lessons, which we could perhaps help them with."
Former shadow minister for public health Ms Berger tweeted: "The video released today of the leader of @UKLabour making inexcusable comments - defended by a party spokesman - makes me as a proud British Jew feel unwelcome in my own party. I've lived in Britain all my life and I don't need any lessons in history/irony."
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn told the : "He was referring to a group of pro-Israel activists misunderstanding -and then criticising - the Palestinian ambassador for a speech at a separate event about the occupation of the West Bank."
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Corbyn has already been forced to apologise for hosting a event in 2010 where a Holocaust survivor compared Israel to Nazism.
He said he had "on occasion appeared on platforms with people whose views I completely reject" and was sorry for the "concerns and anxiety that this has caused".
Corbyn was also criticised for his presence at a ceremony in Tunisia in 2014, which is said to have honoured the perpetrators of the 1972 Munich terror attack.
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