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Jeremy Corbyn posed for picture with far-left activist who said Holocaust denial is free speech

Miko Peled stopped the Labour leader outside the party conference and asked for a photograph

JEREMY Corbyn posed for a picture with a far-left activist who claimed Holocaust denial is free speech, it has emerged.

Controversial campaigner Miko Peled stopped the Labour boss outside the party’s annual conference this week and got a photo taken.

 Far-left campaigner Miko Peled was pictured with Jeremy Corbyn in Liverpool
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Far-left campaigner Miko Peled was pictured with Jeremy Corbyn in Liverpool

He said Mr Corbyn had been “accessible, gracious and generous” during their encounter.

But the Labour boss insists he didn’t mean to pose for the picture and does not endorse Mr Peled’s views.

The activist caused fury last year when he listed Holocaust denial as an issue that should be allowed to be discussed under free-speech principles.

At the previous Labour conference, he said: “This is about free speech, the freedom to criticise and to discuss every issue, whether it's the Holocaust - yes or no, Palestine, the liberation, the whole spectrum. There should be no limits on the discussion.”

 Mr Corbyn said he didn't deliberately pose for a picture with the activist
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Mr Corbyn said he didn't deliberately pose for a picture with the activistCredit: PA:Press Association

Mr Peled is not attending this year’s event, but is hosting his own meeting to spread his extreme views.

His picture with Mr Corbyn was apparently taken on Sunday evening near the perimeter of the party conference.

Corbyn ally speaks at event alongside activist who claims comparing Israel to Hitler is not anti-Semitic

By Natasha Clark

A CLOSE ally of Jeremy Corbyn spoke tonight at the same event as an activist who claims that comparing Israel to the Nazis is not anti-Semitic.

Shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon addressed a Labour & Palestine event at the party's conference in Liverpool.

He gave a speech to activists where he demanded the Palestines have the "right to live free of blockades, check points, and attack from on of the most advanced armies in the world".

But at the same event, Leah Levane, Vice Chair of Jewish Voice for Labour, spoke too - claiming the summer's anti-Semitism row has been “a phenomenal distraction".

She later made a gaffe where she said: “Our motto is: never with the oppressed,” before quickly correcting herself to say “always”.

Last night she was present at a JVL launch where hard-left supporters of Jeremy Corbyn lashed out at the “British Israel lobby” and claimed the anti-Semitism scandal was just a “witch hunt” to topple the Labour leader.

They vowed to fight for suspended members to be brought back into the party, activists at a Jewish Voice for Labour meeting applauded members who were kicked out for bringing the party into disrepute.

And the group handed out leaflets and argued that to compare Hitler to Israel was NOT anti-Semitic.

Literature read: “such comparisons are only Semitic if they show prejudice, hostility or hatred against Jews” and that the comments were “key points in political debate”.

Also present at last night's event was fellow Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle, and General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, Mark Serwotka, who suggested anti-Semitism in Labour was a story “created” by Israel.

Labour's John Prescott was sat in the audience too.

A spokesman for the Labour leader said: “'Miko Peled is not attending Labour party conference.

“He does not have a pass and has not been inside conference. This event is not being advertised by the Labour party and is not taking place on the conference site.

“Jeremy has been stopped by hundreds of people in Liverpool over the last few days.”


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