Both Hamas and Hezbollah are listed as terrorist entities by the European Union, the United States, Israel and in the case of Hezbollah, even its Muslim colleagues in the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev, pointed out in a somewhat sagacious interview with The Sunday Times this week, “You’ve had too many people on the progressive side of politics who have embraced Hamas and Hezbollah. Both of them are anti-Semitic organizations; you just have to read Hamas’ charter, and it’s like chapters straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
“I’d ask the following question: If you’re progressive, you’re embracing an organization which is homophobic, which is misogynistic, which is openly anti-Semitic – what’s progressive about that?”
Regev underlined that “elements of the Left” are in “denial” about the scale of the anti-Semitism among them. Former London mayor Ken Livingstone is one Labour Party member who is also in denial about his own anti-Semitism as well as his immersion into actual Holocaust history revisionism.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Corbyn said he has visited Israel in the past and in response to an invitation Sunday by Israeli Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog, he would be happy to visit the country again. Herzog invited Corbyn to visit Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in the Jewish State, as a way to “put things right.” The Opposition leader said he was “sickened” by the anti-Semitic comments posted on Facebook by MP Shah.