Labour Friends of Israel chair Joan Ryan has used to her speech at the group’s annual dinner to attack Jeremy Corbyn for attending a wreath-laying ceremony in honour of the Black September Palestinian terrorists.
In a hard-hitting speech, the Enfield North MP told Tuesday's gathering at Westminster Central Hall that it was neither “morally right nor at all acceptable to lay a wreath at the grave of those who order the torture and murder of people simply because they are Israelis.”
Attacking Mr Corbyn and his supporters' anti-Israel activism, Ms Ryan said: “It is neither principled nor brave to campaign for the right of people to call Israel a 'racist endeavour' or to spin absurd antisemitic conspiracy theories blaming it for terror attacks.
“And, no, it does not advance the cause of peace to snub our party’s comrades in Israel while calling Hamas terrorists friends and brothers.”
