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Ex-ambassador responds to Corbyn's claim he 'wrote' pro-Israel speech for British MPs

Ron Prosor, Israeli ambassador to the UK from 2007 to 2011, says the Labour leader used 'antisemitic images and narratives'

August 29, 2018 11:00
Ron Prosor
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Israel's former ambassador to the UK has accused Jeremy Corbyn of using "the most ancient antisemitic images and narratives" when he said he wrote the speeches of British MPs defending the country.

Ron Prosor, who served as the Israeli ambassador from 2007 to 2011, called for a “bipartisan coalition to save the UK from this very dangerous person” after seeing footage of Mr Corbyn speaking at a meeting of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in 2010.

As revealed by MailOnline, Mr Corbyn, then a backbench MP, was talking about the Gaza flotilla raid, in which ten anti-Israel activists were killed and ten IDF soldiers wounded.

He said that MPs attending a debate on the subject in the House of Commons “all turned up with a pre-prepared script. I’m sure our friend Ron Prosor wrote it".