Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell handed out anti-Semitic flyers in the name of ‘peace’ in 2014

‘Don’t sell Israeli goods’: Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell handed out boycott flyers in the name of ‘peace’ at 2014 constituency protest

• McDonnell helped organise a protest in his Hayes and Harlington constituency
• The 2014 protest was to get shops not to stock products from Israel
• Protest came during bitter fighting between Israel and Hamas forces in Gaza

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell faced claims he was as ‘hard core’ as Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitism last night after it emerged he took part in a boycott of Israeli goods.

Mr McDonnell helped organise a protest in his Hayes and Harlington constituency in 2014 to get shops not to stock fruit and other products from Israel.

The protest came during bitter fighting between Israel and Hamas forces in Gaza.

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell giving out anti-Israel leaflets to ‘secure peace’ 

McDonnell helped organise a protest in his Hayes and Harlington constituency

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But Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard condemned the protest as ‘vile’. He claimed it showed that, far from trying to defuse the row over anti-Semitism, Mr McDonnell was ‘as hard core as Jeremy Corbyn and the rest of them’.

Mr McDonnell defended taking part, saying it came from people ‘appalled by the bombing of Gaza’. He said he had also previously supported a boycott of Saudi Arabia over arms sales.

One of the flyers, like that handed out by McDonnell, boycotting Isreali goods hangs in Lycamobile

 

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