THREAD: To put @TheSun front page re Corbyn and the Commies in context, here's a list of things Corbyn has said, done or written re foreign policy (will update as suggestions come in).
1) Claimed that the reunification of Germany was a mistake because it happened on capitalist terms
2) Attended multiple events run by DYR, founded by anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers (quote from one: 'I don’t think there is evidence gas chambers were used to exterminate Jews. I don’t think there is evidence of a policy of extermination.')
3) Permitted a Holocaust denier to be readmitted to the Labour Party
4) Claimed that the main problem with the Soviet Union was its 'inadequate industrial base' and decision to get in an arms race with the US
5) Said that Venezuela's achievements 'in jobs, in housing, in health, in education, but above all its role in the whole world as a completely different place' were 'a cause for celebration'. In 2015.
6) Claimed that al-Qaeda was founded by US trainers
7) Said it was a 'tragedy' that bin Laden was killed by the US rather than put on trial
8) Praised the 'enormous respect and stature among the poorest people, particularly in Latin America' won by the Cuban dictatorship
9) Praised 'Islamic opposition' for denting the progress of free market capitalism (in 2006)
10) Sharing a pizza with a pro-Assad activist who's also a Srebrenica denier
11) Not only opposed the Kosovo campaign, but denied that Milosevic had committed war crimes
12) Congratulated John Pilger, via EDM, 'on his expose of the fraudulent justifications for intervening in a ‘genocide’ that never really existed in Kosovo'.
13) Opposed NATO action against Somali pirates (because it was NATO)
14) Chairing the Stop the War Coalition, which shortly after he stepped down to lead Labour condemned America for its 'criminal' embargo of North Korea
15) Claimed that feelings of national pride are due to 'a very nationalist form of history teaching, [from which] stems racism and perverted feelings of superiority'
16) Claimed that the free market's 'very imperative is of ever hastening exploitation of all resources including people, and it needs armies and weapons to secure those supplies'
17) Supported the bit of the anti-apartheid movement whose slogan was 'one settler, one bullet', not the bit with Nelson Mandela in it
18) Refusing five times in a BBC interview to condemn the IRA's murders
19) Inviting convicted IRA bombers to Parliament two weeks after the Brighton bombing that killed five people - while at least one victim was still dying in hospital
20) Helping to run a magazine which praised the same bombing for making the British sit up and take notice, and carried a reader's letter which mocked Norman Tebbit and included the line: 'What do you call four dead Tories? A start.'
21) Speaking annually at the Connolly/Sands commemoration in London to honour dead IRA terrorists and support imprisoned IRA 'prisoners of war'.
22) Taking money from Iran via appearances on Press TV - after it was banned by Ofcom for filming the detention and torture of an Iranian journalist
23) Wanting to open talks with Argentina over the Falklands, with no veto for the islanders
24) Claiming at the time that the Falklands War was 'a Tory plot to keep their money-making friends in business'
25) Blaming Ukraine on NATO's 'attempt to encircle Russia'
26) Repeatedly appearing on Kremlin-owned Russia Today, and tweeting: 'Try Russia Today. “Free of royal wedding and more objective on Libya than most.'
27) Complaining that Jihadi John hadn't been tried in a court of law
28) Speaking at the Christmas party of the Stop the War Coalition shortly after it claimed the Paris attacks were a case of the West 'reaping the whirlwind' from its intervention in the Middle East
29) Responding to the Paris attacks by saying he was unhappy with shoot-to-kill policies
30) Calling Hezbollah and Hamas his friends (at an event he was hosting for them in Parliament)
31) Speaking in front of Communist flags at a May Day rally.
32) Taking tea on the Commons terrace with 'a very honoured citizen', Raed Salah. A man imprisoned for anti-Jewish racism and violence and found by a British judge to have used the blood libel.
33) Defending Stephen Sizer, a vicar disciplined by the CofE for linking to an article called '9/11: Israel Did It'
34) Calling Hezbollah (at the 'friends' meeting) 'an organisation that is dedicated towards the good of the Palestinian people and bringing about long-term peace and social justice and political justice in the whole region', which shouldn't be labelled as terrorists
35) Going on, and speaking at, the al-Quds marches
36) Appointing Stalin and Putin apologist Seumas Milne
37) Appointing Stalin and North Korea apologist Andrew Murray
38) Appointing IRA apologist John McDonnell
39) Appointing the head of Sinn Féin’s London office as his director of stakeholder engagement
(To the people replying re Jihadi John and Bin Laden that this is a mainstream position. It may be, but it's not the first thing you think of...)
