EXCLUSIVE: ‘Biggest terror chiefs in Hamas’ who said Jews were ‘headed to annihilation’, named in delegation attending Jeremy Corbyn ‘peace conference’ in Tunisia
- Delegate list included Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar, who said killing Jewish children was ‘legitimate’
- Also invited was Hamas second-in-command Mousa Marzook, found guilty of terror offences in the United States
- The ‘Peace conference’ was titled the ‘International Conference on Monitoring the Palestinian Political and Legal Situation in the Light of Israeli Aggression’
- It included speech by top Hamas leader who called violence ‘magnificent’
- A former Tunisian foreign minister took the stage to compare Israel to ISIS
- Other speakers included Sabagh al-Mukhtar, who appeared as a witness in the trial of Abu Hamza before he was deported from Britain
- The wreath was laid with delegates from the conference the next day
- When asked about laying the wreath to the Munich terrorists, Corbyn said: ‘I was present when it was laid, I don’t think I was actually involved in it’
The ‘biggest terror chiefs in Hamas’ were named as part of a delegation to the ‘peace conference’ in Tunisia where Jeremy Corbyn went before the wreath-laying ceremony for the Munich killers, MailOnline can reveal.
They included Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar, who said killing Jewish children was ‘legitimate’. In a TV interview, he added that Jews were ‘hungry dogs and wild beasts’, who had ‘no future among the nations of the world’ and were ‘headed to annihilation’.
Also named was Mousa Marzook, the Hamas second-in-command who is designated as a terrorist by the United States and was found guilty of financing terror by an American court.
The pair appeared on a list of delegates due to appear at the conference in 2014, where another top Hamas member, Oussama Hamdan, praised violence as ‘magnificent’ and a Tunisian politician said that ISIS and Israel were ‘the same thing’.
The conference took place at the five-star Le Palais hotel in Gammarth on the Tunisian coast, where delegates sunned themselves and sipped soft drinks in the luxury bar while discussing their views on the Jewish State.
Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar addresses the funeral of Mahmoud al-Kishawi a member of the armed wing of Hamas. He appears on a list of delegates to the conference
Mousa Marzook, the Hamas second-in-command who is designated as a terrorist by the United States and was found guilty of financing terror by an American court, also was on the list
Jeremy Corbyn, circled right, at what he described as a ‘conference searching for peace’ in Tunisia. The event was titled the ‘International Conference on Monitoring the Palestinian Political and Legal Situation in the Light of Israeli Aggression’
The five-star Le Palace hotel in Gammarth, Tunisia, where the conference in 2014 was held
Located on the Tunisian coast, Le Palace Hotel is where delegates sunned themselves and enjoyed luxury facilities while discussing their views on the Jewish State
Le Palace hotel is one of the most expensive hotels in Tunisia and features luxury furnishings
Ramsey Clark, right, an American lawyer and activist who defended Saddam Hussain at his trial, and Swiss socialist politician Carlo Sommaruga, right, who met with Julian Assange
The Labour leader has tried to present the conference as an attempt to ‘try and promote peace in the Middle East’.
He said: ‘The only way we achieve peace is by bringing people together and talking to them. That was the whole point of the conference and, frankly, the whole point of my life.’
But the list of delegates, unearthed by MailOnline, is littered with extremists, far-Left agitators, terror sympathisers and Islamists. In addition to the Hamas leaders, Sinn Feinn MP Francie Molloy, who taunted Britons as being ‘best’ at murder, was there.
Graeme Morris MP, a Labour representative close to Momentum, is also understood to have attended.
Also listed was Ramsey Clark, an American lawyer and activist who defended Saddam Hussain at his trial and said ‘history will prove [Slobodan] Milošević was right’.
There was a significant contingent of Swiss Left-wing figures, including the radical socialist politician Carlo Sommaruga, who met with Julian Assange in 2013.
Yesterday, MailOnline revealed Hamas leader Oussama Hamda, who spoke at the conference, had just given an interview to Lebanese media in which he said that the anti-Semitic myth that Jews drank Christian blood was ‘not a figment of imagination or something taken from a film. It is a fact.’
Jeremy Corbyn today admitted being at the wreath-laying ceremony after initially insisting he was there for a tribute to different Palestinians
Hamas leader Oussama Hamdan, left, spoke at the conference praising Hamas’ military success, as did Sabagh al-Mukhtar, right, who acted as expert witness for Abu Hamza
The bar at Le Palace hotel where delegates at the conference sipped soft drinks in the breaks
The swimming pool at Le Palace hotel in Tunisia, located just a stone’s throw from the sea
Jeremy Corbyn has come under fire for allegedly failing to declare the trip to Parliament
Other delegates included activist Zaher Al-Birawi, who is close to the leadership of Hamas; and lawyer Sabagh al-Mukhtar, who appeared as an expert witness to support extremist cleric Abu Hamza before he was deported from Britain.
The title of the event, held on September 30 2014, was the ‘International Conference on Monitoring the Palestinian Political and Legal Situation in the Light of Israeli Aggression’.
The revelations will add to the pressure on the Labour leader as he faces an increasing number of calls to resign.
Corbyn, right, on stage at the conference, which included various extremists as speakers
The ballroom at Le Palace hotel in Tunisia where the anti-Israel conference took place
Sabagh al-Mukhtar, who spoke at the conference, appeared as an expert witness in support of Abu Hamza, pictured, before he was deported from Britain
Activist Zaher Al-Birawi, left, who is close to Hamas, also attended the conference. He is pictured sitting beside Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, right
Corbyn admitted being present at the wreath-laying ceremony in Tunisia but said he did not ‘think’ that he directly took part.
The Daily Mail published photographs of him attending the tribute near the graves of terrorists linked to the murder of 11 Israelis at the 1972 massacre.
Labour MP Luciana Berger, who is Jewish and has suffered an onslaught of anti-Semitic abuse, demanded an apology from her party leader.
She said on Twitter: ‘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?’
The Labour leader (pictured on Sky News today on a visit to the Midlands) said he attended the ceremony in Tunis in 2014 because he wanted to commemorate all those killed in atrocities
Labour has insisted Jeremy Corbyn (pictured, holding his hands aloft in what appears to be him observing a Muslim prayer with the delegation at the cemetary in 2014) was there to pay his respects to the victims of an Israeli bombing raid in 1985, and not extremists linked to the massacre. But his critics say the controversy shows that he is not fit to be party leader
Labour MP Luciana Berger – who is Jewish and has spoken out about the onslaught of anti-Semitic abuse she has received from some of Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters – demanded that Mr Corbyn apologise for attending the ceremony
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What happened in the 1972 Munich massacre?
Eleven Israelis – including nine members of the country’s athletics team – were killed in the 1972 Munich massacre by Palestinian terrorists.
Extremists in Black September took the Israelis hostages in their apartment in the Olympic village.
Photographs of the terrorists in balaclavas were beamed across the world as the authorities engaged in tense negotiations to try to free the hostages.
But the standoff ended in a gun battle which saw all 11 of the Israeli hostages and a German policeman killed.
Mr Corbyn told Sky News: ‘A wreath was indeed laid by some of those who attended the conference to some who were killed in Paris in 1992.
‘I was present when it was laid, I don’t think I was actually involved in it.
‘I was there because I wanted to see a fitting memorial to everyone who has died in every terrorist incident because we have to end it.
‘You cannot pursue peace by a cycle of violence.
‘The only way you can pursue peace is by a cycle of dialogue.’
But his remarks were met with a scathing response from anti-Semitism campaigners, who said he is still dodging questions.
Euan Philipps, spokesman for Labour Against Antisemitism, told MailOnline that Mr Corbyn must be honest and admit the damage the latest scandal has done to his party.
He said: ‘Jeremy Corbyn’s claim that he wasn’t involved in the wreath-laying ceremony, when pictures exist showing him laying the wreath himself, stretches credulity.
‘Mr Corbyn must first address the distress he has caused the widows of the Munich victims by being honest about what happened.
‘He must then publicly admit to the damage his leadership is doing to the Labour Party, accept responsibility for its ongoing antisemitism crisis, and resign.
We hope that all Labour MPs, members and those in the media will show the integrity that this case demands and continue to hold Mr Corbyn to account over this appalling incident.’
The ‘Martyrs Cemetary’ (pictured, on the hillside where the Labour leader was pictured 2014) It emerged yesterday that the airstrike memorial at the cemetery is inscribed with the names of some of Palestine’s old terror chiefs
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