Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in London, Britain, April 2, 2018.. (photo credit: REUTERS / HANNAH MCKAY)
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UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn may have visited the Knesset to campaign for the early release of nuclear secret leaker Mordechai Vanunu in 1998.
Earlier this week, Corbyn came under fire when photos of him laying a wreath at the graves of the perpetrators of the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics, together with a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was behind many deadly terrorist attacks on Israelis. Then, despite the photographic evidence, his spokespeople said that Corbyn did not participate in the wreath-laying.
Asked by the UK’s Channel 4 News on Tuesday if he ever layed a wreath at a memorial for Israeli victims of terror or shared a platform with members of the Israeli government, Corbyn responded: “I’ve met many people from the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, over the years, I’ve visited the Knesset, I’ve met visiting Israeli delegations when they’ve been to Britain.”
The Jerusalem Post‘s archive has one mention of a meeting between Corbyn and a member of Knesset in Israel, on April 19, 1998.
At that time, Corbyn was deeply involved in efforts to secure the early release of Mordechai Vanunu, who was sent to prison in 1987 for selling Israeli nuclear secrets to the Sunday Times of London.
Corbyn, who was a joint vice-chairman of the Human Rights Groups of the British Parliament, met with then-Knesset State Control Committee chairman and Labor MK Yossi Katz.
Katz had recently arranged for Vanunu to be removed from solitary confinement.
While the article did not specify where the meeting took place, it is may have happened in the Knesset.
Katz told the Post on Thursday that he did not remember the location of the meeting, and said it also could have taken place in Tel Aviv.
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“I didn’t realize it was Corbyn,” Katz said. “It was a member of the opposition – I won’t say he’s eccentric – but someone who was fighting for Vanunu. It was an okay conversation.”
Corbyn and his co-chairman Lord Avebury, along with actress Susannah York, requested to visit Vanunu and attempted to deliver a petition to then-president Ezer Weizmann calling to pardon him. Weizmann did not meet with the group.
In 2004, Corbyn, York and others greeted Vanunu upon his release from Ashkelon’s Shikma prison.
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