Jeremy Corbyn speaking as patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign 2009: "It will be my pleasure and honor to host an event in Parliament where our friends from Hezbollah will be speaking. I've also invited our friends from Hamas to come and speak as well"

Of course, in addition to their antisemitism, both groups, as Professor Alan Johnson has noted, oppose "everything the labour movement has ever stood for: trade union rights, freedom of speech and organisation, women's equality, gay and lesbian rights, anti-racism, the enlightenment, and reason".