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4 July 2016

Momentum, anti-Semitism and the problem with Labour’s grassroots activists

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn condemned anti-Semitism, but MPs still had plenty of questions. 

By Julia Rampen

“I said Islamic states lower case,” Jeremy Corbyn told the Home Affairs select committee, in regard to accusations he compared Israel to the Islamic State. “It would have been better with hindsight to say Islamic countries.”

“If I’d used the word Islamic countries there would have been no doubt whatsoever. I’m disappointed some people said I made an equation. I do not make an equation in that way.”

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