Thread by @TimesCorbyn

In Feb 2011, Corbyn (& his researcher) went on an unregistered trip to Lebanon, paid for by groups (PRC & CEPR) with alleged links to Hamas.

Apparently nobody noticed that he met with Hezbollah and admitted to meeting Hamas & Fatah as well. 1/8

Corbyn appears to have met with Ali Ammar of Hezbollah. Who castigated the delegation: "Its high time the West liberated itself from double standards & stopped supporting satellite regimes that do not respect Palestinian rights." 2/8

The last time that Ali Ammar met a European 'socialist' leadership hopeful he went into 'a 20 minute tirade... that Israeli "Nazism" was no better than Hitler's Third Reich.' [Times 4 Dec 2006, p.39] 3/8

The last time that Corbyn met someone from Hezbollah, El Hajj Hassan, he also went into a tirade: "The Israelis is like the Nazis, like the Nazi politics, like the Nazi behaviour in the second [world] war."

Anyone see a theme? 4/8

Coincidentally of course, one of the IHRA examples which Corbyn attempted to omit (& apparently succeed in) is “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” 5/8

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Corbyn himself had nothing to say about Hezbollah, but he was 'encouraged by the ability of Palestinian factions, including Hamas & the PLO to sit down together & find common ground... US & Israeli pressure... classic colonial divide & rule tactic.'

So he evidently met them. 6/8

It's unclear if he met Hamas Foreign Minister Osama Hamdan, but if he did, he wasn't paying any attention as he [rightly] called Fatah (part of the PLO) 'terrorists' & said they should be 'dismantled'.

Not quite common ground between the deadly rivals. 7/8

Finaly, Corbyn & others wrongly call Israel an apartheid state. As usual Corbyn is confused, he surely means Lebanon which denies 'Palestinians' born there: passports & property rights; prohibits them from certain jobs & denies them the vote. 8/8