Implausible Denials of Festering Anti-Semitism

"I was in Tunisia at a Palestinian conference. I laid a wreath to all those that had died in the air attack that took place on Tunis, on the headquarters of the Palestinian organizations there. And I was accompanied by very many other people who were at a conference searching for peace."
"A wreath [in memory of Atef Bseiso, planner of the PLO Black September assassins of eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympics] was indeed laid by some of those who were at the conference for those who were killed in Paris in 1992. I was present when it was laid."
"I don't think I was involved in it."
"I do acknowledge there is a real problem that Labour is working to overcome."
Anthony Corbyn, leader, Labour Party, Britain

Jeremy Corbyn was pictured at a wreath-laying ceremony in 2014  
Palestinian embassy in Tunis/Facebook

"Being present is the same as being involved."
"When I attend a memorial, my presence alone, whether I lay a wreath or not, demonstrates my association and support."
"There can also never be a 'fitting memorial' for terrorists. Where is the apology?"
Luciana Berger, Jewish Labour MP

"The laying of a wreath by Jeremy Corbyn on the graves of the terrorists who carried out the Munich massacre and the comparison he made between Israel and Nazis deserves unequivocal condemnation from everyone – from the left, the right and across the entire political spectrum."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

In responding to Israel's Prime Minister's condemnation of the Labour leader's blatant anti-Semitism and his links with Palestinian terrorist groups whom he has referred to as 'friends', Corbyn lashed back with a condemnation of his own: "What deserves unequivocal condemnation is the killing of over 160 Palestinian protesters in Gaza by Israeli forces since March, including dozens of children", a typical interpretation by Israel-bashers and Jew-haters, taking Israel's efforts at defence against a Hamas-driven martyrdom program referred to as a 'protest' to accuse Israel, as usual, of killing innocent Palestinian Arabs.

A year ago, it became known to the public that Corbyn had attended a ceremony to honour the leaders of the Black September terrorist group responsible for the abduction, torture, mutilation and murder of eleven Israeli athletes and coaches participating in the 1972 Olympics held that year in Munich, Germany. Corbyn has steadfastly denied any conceivable involvement in such an event, perish the very thought. And then, incriminating photographs of the event came to light, clearly illustrating not only his presence but his active participation in memorial wreath-laying in memory of the murderers.

Jeremy Corbyn making the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Symbol ‘Rab’aa’.

Yet, in the political interests of presenting himself as a champion of peace, dedicated to justice for all, completely neutral and objective in his outlook, favouring none and presenting himself as a moderate, balanced leader of the British Labour Party, he is now in no position to deny the obvious. It was, indeed, obvious for quite a long time that Corbyn's toleration for anti-Semitism and his own state of comfort with it, has enabled other members of the leading British political party to release their own symptoms of the pathology with ease, knowing their leader would never seek to still their views.

He still equivocates, and cavils at the wording, hoping to elude the severity of the accusations against him, by commenting he didn't "think" he was "involved", photographs notwithstanding in their damning reality. There is Corbyn, with a large wreath in his hands standing beside the grave of Munich mastermind Aalah Khalaf and another photo standing beside that grave and and that of three others, all considered the massacre's ringleaders.

Many members of the Israeli Munich Olympic team had directly suffered from Nazi atrocities. They visited Dachau concentration camp as a symbol of their everlasting mourning.

Labour went on overdrive in support of their leader, denying everything; simply a matter of distorted perception, a tempest in a teapot soon to be forgotten, totally irrelevant and misunderstood. The public has been "misled" to believe that Corbyn would lend himself to such an alliance with murderous terrorists since in fact he "did not honour those responsible for the Munich killings". He had simply attended a "peace conference" that took place in Tunisia.

Where he was indeed present, according to his aides, was a ceremony commemorating the deaths of 47 people when an Israeli air force strike hit a PLO base in 1985 in Tunisia. Not all in British politics have remained on the sidelines over these revelations. British Home Secretary Sajid Javid spoke of the need for Corbyn to resign for having led a proud old British party to become a fount of anti-Semitic sentiment. The "leader of any other major political party" pointed out Javid, would have been sacked for responsibility of any similar disgrace.

A line of thought with respect to honour in politics that might have been appropriate back in 2010 when a panel he hosted compared Israelis to Nazis, all the while denying a scintilla of anti-Semitism resides in his heart of hearts.