{"id":68080,"date":"2019-02-25T17:05:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=68080"},"modified":"2019-02-25T07:16:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T05:16:25","slug":"05-05-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=68080","title":{"rendered":"Links Between Top Corbyn Aide and Anti-Israel Terror Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>UK Newspaper Investigation Uncovers Links Between Top Corbyn Aide and Anti-Israel Terror Groups<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Benjamin Kerstein<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Britain\u2019s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (R) and Seumas Milne, the Labour Party\u2019s Executive Director of Strategy and Communications (L), arrive at the annual Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, Britain, September 23, 2018. Photo: REUTERS\/Hannah McKay<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A top aide to controversial UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has long-standing ties to anti-Israel terrorist groups and would likely be denied a security clearance as a result, a new report has revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seumas Milne, Labour\u2019s head of strategy and communications, is considered so influential that he has been referred to as \u201cCorbyn\u2019s brain,\u201d and Corbyn, who is considered antisemitic by the vast majority of British Jews, reportedly relies upon him completely.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a weekend expos\u00e9 by\u00a0The Mail on Sunday<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span>, Milne\u2019s links with terrorist groups dedicated to destroying the Jewish state are decades old. A party staff member, speaking anonymously, said, \u201cSeumas has been supporting groups that deny Israel\u2019s right to exist for many years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While he was at Oxford University in 1977, Milne traveled to Lebanon and met with PLO terrorists. According to a\u00a0New Statesman<\/em>\u00a0profile, Milne \u201clearned Arabic, heard shots fired in anger, escaped from a blown-up building, and was briefly captured by militiamen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Palestinian activist Hussein Agha who has known Milne for years related that the political adviser \u201cwent to Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank\u00a0\u2014 a young boy on a Leftist grand tour. He adopted a Palestinian accent. He used to speak English with Arabs the way they spoke to him.\u201d He added\u00a0that Milne met with Fatah members while the group still openly called for Israel\u2019s destruction and the ethnic cleansing of its Jewish population. \u201cI met him when he came back,\u201d he told\u00a0The Mail<\/em>. \u201cHe was not antisemitic, but he was very, very anti-Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Returning to Oxford, Milne co-founded the Oxford Palestine Campaign, an extremist anti-Israel group. The organization disseminated PLO propaganda and aggressively denounced the 1978 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, saying, \u201cWe must now expect the Palestinians to react in the only way that is left to them: to escalate their armed resistance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Agha, who has since been involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, remarked that Milne \u201cthinks I have sold out, become too soft. He is a purist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0Mail<\/em>\u00a0report, Milne eventually developed links with Hamas and took Corbyn to the Middle East to meet with leaders of the Islamist terror group, which still openly states that its goal is Israel\u2019s destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2009, Milne stated, \u201cThe idea that Israel is a racist state is largely uncontroversial\u201d and charged that Israel was \u201cbuilt on ethnic cleansing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In response to the\u00a0Mail<\/em>\u00a0report, a\u00a0Labour source said: \u201cSeumas Milne does not endorse the Hamas charter. He has criticised it.\u201d The source added, \u201cSeumas has never advocated violence. The right to resist illegal occupation is enshrined in international law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On the overlap between Milne\u2019s and Corbyn\u2019s views, one Member of Parliament noted anonymously, \u201cWithout a shadow of a doubt, Corbyn trusts Milne more than anyone. I actually think Corbyn is a little bit thick. It\u2019s no exaggeration to say that Milne is Corbyn\u2019s brain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Milne has apparently been heavily involved in Labour efforts to deal with accusations of antisemitism against Corbyn and the party. \u201cAgain and again, MPs have asked to see Corbyn to talk about antisemitism, and when they got to his room, they found themselves talking to Milne,\u201d the MP said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to Israel-related issues,\u00a0The Mail<\/em>\u00a0said Milne had defended Russia\u2019s invasions of Afghanistan and Ukraine, and said an IRA attempt in 1984 to assassinate then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher was a \u201cvery daring attack.\u201d After 9\/11, he wrote that Americans do not understand that they are \u201chated with such bitterness\u201d because of their \u201cunabashed national egotism and arrogance.\u201d He has also defended the theocratic Iranian regime, which calls for the destruction of Israel, and called protesters against it \u201cTehran\u2019s gilded youth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of British intelligence agency MI6, said that as a result of Milne\u2019s history, it would be impossible for him to pass the required security checks to see classified information if Corbyn becomes prime minister.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone with his sort of background could not be let anywhere near classified information. It would be out of the question,\u201d said Dearlove.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am alarmed enough by Corbyn\u2019s past associations, but Milne\u2019s put him beyond the pale. That means Corbyn could not make the judgments and decisions a PM has to make unless he stopped consulting him,\u201d he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere would be a recommendation made by the head of MI5, who would have to see the PM and say, \u2018This man cannot be allowed to see any classified information.\u2019 Either Corbyn would have to cut contact with him \u2014 or the head of MI5 would have to threaten to resign, and do it if he still refused. It would blow up into a major constitutional issue, and it would be huge,\u201d Dearlove added.<\/span><\/p>\n

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