On Piers Morgan’s show on Talk TV, former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said that he “utterly condemned” the massacre on October 7, but refused to answer the question of whether Hamas is a terrorist group or whether it should stay in power.

The MP for Islington North dodged the question multiple times, repeatedly calling for a cease-fire instead:

Of course, we already have a good idea of Corbyn’s views on Hamas. As I wrote in 2018:

In 2009, [Corbyn] invited Islamist “friends from Hamas” to the House of Commons and said that the idea that the group “should be labelled as a terrorist organisation by the British government is really a big, big historical mistake.” In 2010, he hosted an event (also at the House of Commons) on Holocaust Memorial Day in which a Jewish Auschwitz survivor compared the Israeli government to the Nazi regime. In 2014, he attended a ceremony in Tunisia and reportedly laid a wreath on the grave of one the Black September terrorists who murdered eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Before the Iranian state broadcaster, Press TV, was banned in January 2012, he reportedly accepted up to £20,000 for his appearances on the channel.

And to think that Corbyn would have become prime minister of the United Kingdom in 2019 had he not lost to Boris Johnson.