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Labour’s Corbyn: Jews No More Responsible for Israel Than Muslims Are for Islamic Organizations
June 30, 2016

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn drew an odd parallel on Thursday between Israel and the Islamic State terror group at the launch of a report which cleared his party of accusations of being tainted by anti-Semitism, U.K. reports said. “Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel than our Muslim friends are for self-styled Islamic states or organizations,” Corbyn told party members. A Jewish Labour lawmaker, Ruth Smeeth, fled the news conference in tears after he spoke, the Jewish Chronicle said…Corbyn’s remarks were severely criticized by the leader of Israel’s Labor Party, MK Isaac Herzog, who blasted him for the “shocking comparison” between Israel and ISIS, which he termed a “betrayal of the values which the international labor movement represents.” READ MORE