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Your support makes all the difference.Owen Smith has attacked Jeremy Corbyn for agreeing to speak at an event at the Labour Party conference alongside a speaker who has previously called for a Jewish journalist’s throat to be cut.
RIchard Seymour, the far-left blogger behind the Lenin’s Tomb blog wrote on Facebook last year with regard to a Jewish journalist who had been reporting on Israel-Palestine: “Jewish journalist reporting on Israel-Palestine,“F*ck him, they should cut his throat”.
Katie Green, chair of Owen Smith’s leadership campaign said: “These kind of violent and deeply offensive remarks make a mockery of Jeremy's 'kinder, gentler politics.' Jeremy should be condemning his comments.”
Mr Corbyn has said he intends to speak at the ‘World Transformed’ event, which is being organised by Momentum, the campaign group that is co-ordinating his leadership bid. “I’m going to be there, because I want to see a world transformed,” he said.
On Wednesday, Smith sparked controversy by saying he would be prepared to engage in peace talks with Isis.
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