Have Hamas declared their support for Jeremy Corbyn?

It’s less than 48 hours until the polls open for the local elections and following last week’s anti-Semitism media-storm, Corbyn needs all the friends he can get if he hopes to keep voters onside. Alas, some friends are more helpful than others.

As Labour try and show that they do not condone anti-Semitism, Corbyn has reportedly received a declaration of support from… Hamas. Yes, following Corbyn’s decision to reject calls to denounce the Islamist group — whose armed wing is banned as a terrorist organisation in the UK —  Breitbart Jerusalem report that Taher A-Nunu, a senior Hamas official, has said that Corbyn’s willingness to engage with the Gaza-based group as a ‘painful hit that the Zionist enemy received’. Here is the statement in full:

‘We welcome the declaration of the Labour Chairman and see his engagement as a very important statement that is also a painful hit that the Zionist enemy received. It comes as part of the international boycott campaign that the enemy (Israel) is suffering from.