In an interview on Sunday with Sky News, U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn stated that convicted terrorists should “not necessarily” serve out the entirety of their prison terms. His statement comes on the heels of Friday’s terror attack on London Bridge, in which two Brits were stabbed to death by a convicted terrorist who had been released early from prison.
Corbyn’s softness towards terrorism should surprise no one, at least not those who have been paying attention to his unnervingly friendly attitude towards extremists over the past several decades (one Twitter user created a lengthy list). Corbyn is the quintessential terrorist sympathizer, harboring a particular, yet unsurprising, penchant for the antisemitic ones who usually find a safe haven within the anti-Zionist movement.
In the early 2000s, Corbyn led a campaign advocating for the release of two terrorists convicted for their roles in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish charity and the Israeli embassy in London. Jawad Botmeh and Samar Alami, each jailed for 20 years, were found guilty of “conspiring to cause explosions in the United Kingdom” in December of 1996.
While both admitted to possessing the five pounds of explosives and three handguns in a storage unit, the pair insisted that the materials were not intended for use in the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, during their trial, Botmeh and Alami, both engineers, admitted to testing homemade explosives in England’s Peak District in order to send information back to Palestinians living in the Palestinian territories.
In addition to advocating for lighter sentences for convicted terrorist conspirators, Corbyn has also used softened language when speaking of terrorist groups. In 2009, at a meeting held by the anti-war group Stop the War Coalition, Corbyn referred to members of Hamas and Hezbollah, two groups designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations by the U.S. State Department, as “friends.” He then proceeded to chastise the Israelis for not permitting members of Hamas to fly to the United Kingdom to meet with members of Parliament.
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