Thread by @TimesCorbyn

Corbyn took it as a compliment that he had an unfortunate habit of talking to people ['who have unpleasant views about Israel and Jews'] and no other leader has this sort of history.

This thread takes a look at some of Corbyn's friends & people who he's defended. 1/13

Corbyn's known Ken Livingstone since 1971 and neither of them ever experienced any antisemitism in the Labour Party!

Corbyn thinks he's an anti-racist. Most people think he's an antisemite.

Ken quit Labour before he was expelled. 2

Corbyn's is also friends with Marc Wadsworth, and claims that he's a an anti-racist campaigner as well. Wadsworth is the man who abused Ruth Smeeth at the Chakrabarti report launch

Wadsworth was expelled from Labour over that incident. 3

Corbyn is of course friends with Jackie Walker, who said that Jews were the chief financiers of the Atlantic Slave Trade, he thinks she's an anti-racist campaigner. She's the partner of one of Corbyn's best friends Graham Bash

Walker quit before she was expelled. 4

Corbyn's also helped fund raise for the holocaust denier Paul Eisen. Although Corbyn says he has distanced himself from him, they have been seen together several times since Eisen's comment. 5

Corbyn also defended Stephen Sizer, a CoE vicar, who was disciplined for his antisemitism, Corbyn said he was "under attack by a pro-Israeli smear campaign".

Just listen to Corbyn's answer to this. 6

In 2013 Corbyn and Sizer were at a conference together. Sizer was complaining about 'the lobby' meaning Jewish organisations.

Also at the event were two other friends of Corbyn: Ismail Patel & Daud Abdullah. They both like Corbyn supported blood libelling sheikh Raed Salah. 7

Here's Patel at a rally:

"Hamas is not a terrorist organisation... we salute Hamas for standing up to Israel."

Patel bunged Corbyn £10,000 in 2015.

Here he is with Corbyn claiming Zionism made Jew "immoral". 8

https://twitter.com/TheRedRoar/status/1196441102821314561

Another comrade, Daud Abdullah who was 'accused of advocating attacks on the Royal Navy if it tries to stop arms for Hamas being smuggled.'

theguardian.com/world/2009/mar…

Here is sitting next to Corbyn at the Salah press conference. 9

https://twitter.com/TimesCorbyn/status/1160630396817727488

Here's Corbyn, Abdullah and another friend Azzamm Tamimi.

Tamimi, like Corbyn, Patel and Abdullah also knows the hate sheikh Raed Salah. Here they are laughing about daubing a swastika on a Jewish teacher's blackboard. 10

https://twitter.com/TimesCorbyn/status/1152869184122097664

Here's Tamimi at a rally:
"Because of the great jihad of Hezbollah ... because of the great johad of Hamas and Islamic Jihad"

& at another: "Jihad, jihad, jihad." 11

https://twitter.com/TimesCorbyn/status/1152866306422693893

One final friend, and a very good friend of Corbyn's, Ibrahim Hewitt.

Take a look at what he writes about gay people. 12

https://twitter.com/TimesCorbyn/status/1157584958875152385

Here's a short clip of @MaajidNawaz expertly taking Hewitt to task on @BBCNewsnight.

Corbyn is friends with and has defended all of these people.

No wonder he won't apologise to British Jews, racists never do. #LabourRacists #LabourLies #GE19 13/13

@MaajidNawaz @BBCNewsnight For context, this was the video proceeding the first one in the thread.

He first tried to blame it all on the media.