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Benjamin Netanyahu condemns Jeremy Corbyn over Black September wreath-laying scandal

The Labour leader's crisis over laying a wreath for the terror group shows no sign of lifting

August 13, 2018 17:27
Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Jeremy Corbyn, saying his actions 'deserves unequivocal condemnation'
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken the unprecedented step of condemning Jeremy Corbyn for laying a wreath at a service in memory of the Black September terrorists behind the Munich massacre.

In a rare instance of a foreign head of government condemning a British political leader, Mr Netanyahu tweeted Mr Corbyn's laying of a wreath during the ceremony in Tunis in 2014 "deserves unequivocal condemnation from everyone - left, right and everything in between".

Mr Netanyahu's tweet follows days of claims and counter-claims, as Mr Corbyn's team sought to deny he was at the ceremony to lay a wreath for the Black September but people who were killed in a 1985 Israeli airstrike who are buried in the same cemetery.

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