Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn openly rejects Zionism, aligning with extremist MP Zarah Sultana in radical new anti-Israel crusade.
In a shocking outburst that underscores his long history of hostility toward the Jewish state, former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn declared his “absolute opposition to Zionism” during a meeting of his newly formed political faction, Your Party, held Sunday in Wandsworth, south-west London.
Corbyn’s remarks — first reported by British Jewish News — mark his most explicit rejection yet of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish homeland. Speaking alongside his co-founder, MP Zarah Sultana, Corbyn accused Israel of pursuing a so-called “Greater Israel project” and branded the situation in Gaza as “genocide.”
“The whole Zionist project was about expanding Israel forevermore, which is exactly what Netanyahu is doing,” Corbyn asserted, echoing talking points long circulated by anti-Israel and antisemitic circles. He went further, claiming Zionism originated from “imperial history” tied to the British Empire — a statement historians swiftly dismissed as ignorant revisionism.
Corbyn revealed he is writing “a very long article” chronicling his four-decade “activism” for the Palestinian cause — a euphemism critics say whitewashes his pattern of embracing extremists.
Corbyn’s record speaks for itself: as Labour leader (2015–2020), he notoriously referred to Hamas and Hezbollah as his ‘friends’, a remark he later tried to retract under political pressure. His tenure was marred by rampant antisemitism scandals that drove British Jews away from Labour in record numbers. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) later found Labour under Corbyn “guilty of unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination” against Jewish members.
Corbyn was suspended from Labour and permanently barred from running as its candidate in 2022. Yet his latest comments reveal nothing has changed. His ally Zarah Sultana, who exited Labour last year, has mirrored his rhetoric — accusing the UK government of “genocide” for trading arms with Israel and proudly proclaiming herself “anti-Zionist.”
Sultana also has ties to Palestine Action, a violent network recently blacklisted as a terrorist organization in the UK for targeting Jewish and Israeli-linked institutions.
British Jewish groups have condemned Corbyn’s remarks as “a dangerous revival of antisemitic tropes masquerading as political ideology.” One senior community leader told Arutz Sheva: “Corbyn has learned nothing. His obsession with demonizing Israel exposes his true colors — this is not about policy, it’s about hate.”
As Corbyn’s new movement spirals deeper into extremism, many in Britain are warning that the ghosts of Labour’s antisemitic past are now returning — this time, with no filter at all.
