Should Hamas stay in power following the 7 October atrocity on Israel? Should the group’s fighters be called terrorists? Two questions that are simple to answer but not, it seems, for Jeremy Corbyn.
The former Labour leader refused 15 times to label Hamas a ‘terror group’ in a testy interview last night with Piers Morgan. While Corbyn said of Hamas ‘everyone knows what they are’, he refused repeatedly to use the ‘t’ word to describe the group that murdered 1,400 Israelis:
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