Labour MP risks fresh anti-Semitism storm by inviting top figure from Houthi movement to Parliament
A LABOUR MP has risked a fresh antisemitism storm by inviting to Parliament a leading figure from the Houthi movement who’s slogan includes “curse the Jews”.
Brighton MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle is hosting Ahmed Alshami at a Stop the War Coalition meeting in the Commons on Tuesday.
Mr Alshami plays a prominent role as an international spokesman and an economist for the Houthis, which is locked in a bitter civil with the Yemen government.
He is executive director of the Arabian Rights Watch Association, which critics claim is a PR front for the movement.
The Iran-backed Houthis’ slogan is, “God is great, death to the US, death to Israel, curse the Jews, and victory for Islam”.
British military advisors are part of an international coalition lead by Saudi Arabia battling the Houthis in Yemen’s bitter civil war.
Mr Russell-Moyle’s invitation comes despite a plea to him from the Yemeni Embassy in London not to host a “militia” member.
Time and again, Corbyn and his allies welcome in Jew haters and side with the extremist enemies of the UK
Independent MP John Woodcock, who resigned from Labour last year in protest at the party’s antisemitism troubles dubbed it “staggering that a Labour MP is welcoming this virulently antisemitic terror group into parliament”.
Mr Woodcock added: “Time and again, Corbyn and his allies welcome in Jew haters and side with the extremist enemies of the UK.
“The decent MPs left in the Labour Party need to stop this event from happening on Tuesday.”
Mr Woodcock also drew parallels over the event to hard left Labour leader Mr Corbyn’s notorious invitation to the Commons for Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams just days about the Brighton bomb.
Mr Alshami’s boss, the Houthi’s spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam, earlier this morning warned airports in the coalition against the group face revenge attacks for closing their airport.
Abdulsalam tweeted on June 9: “The states of aggression must be made to understand that their airports are in the crossfire, and that their closure or total paralysis is the closest way to break the siege of the airport Sana’a”.
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The Labour Party last night refused to condemn the meeting or Mr Russell-Moyle’s role in organising it.
Instead, Lloyd Russell-Moyle insisted the meeting would help the push for peace in Yemen.
The MP told The Sun: “Labour supports all efforts to bring about a peace settlement in Yemen, which means encouraging dialogue with people on all sides, however much we disagree with their views – a task made harder by the UK government supporting and arming the Saudi-led forces.”
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