Jeremy Corbyn has been slammed as xenophobic after a new video of him emerged in which he says Zionists “don't understand English irony” despite having lived in the country for a very long time.
He made the remark during a meeting of the Palestinian Return Centre in 2013 when talking about an earlier speech from Manuel Hassassian, the Palestinian envoy to the UK.
As revealed by the Daily Mail, in the video Mr Corbyn is heard describing Mr Hassassian's speech as “incredibly powerful, passionate and effective about the history of Palestine and the rights of the Palestinian people.”
The future Labour leader continues: “This was dutifully recorded by the thankfully silent Zionists who were in the audience on that occasion, and then came up and berated him afterwards for what he had said.
