Jeremy Corbyn ‘sponsored conference that denounced Zionism as racist’

Jeremy Corbyn sponsored a conference which called on the Labour Party to disaffiliate from its Jewish arm and denounced “the Zionist state as racist”, it has been claimed.

The Labour leader is listed as a sponsor on documents for the Labour Movement Conference on Palestine in 1984, which also asked the party to “recognise the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.”

The documents were posted online by Tony Greenstein, the Jewish founder of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who was suspended by the Labour Party in March.

Organised by the Labour Movement Campaign for Palestine, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the London branch of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, the conference called “on Labour Movement bodies to press for the disaffiliation of Poale Zion from the Labour Party.”