LONDON—Britain’s Interior Minister Sajid Javid said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn should resign after pictures emerged of him visiting the graves of terrorists responsible for the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
The Daily Mail published photos of Corbyn taking part in a memorial ceremony for the Palestinian terrorists.
At the ceremony, Corbyn laid a wreath at the grave of one of the terrorists involved in the attack and later wrote about the ceremony in a column for the British communist newspaper Morning Star. Titled “Palestine United,” the column called the service “poignant.”
The Interior Minister said that the leader of any other mainstream political party would have to go if they had paid tribute to terrorists in this way.
The Labour Party said that Corbyn was paying his respects to victims of a 1985 Israeli airstrike on Palestinian Liberation Organisation offices in Tunis. His own account in 2014 claimed that wreaths had been laid not only at the memorial, but also “on the graves of others killed by Mossad agents in Paris in 1991”.
The Daily Mail sent a reporter to the cemetery to prove that in the original photos Corbyn is not standing with the wreath at the memorial, but is paying his respects at the graves of the men who organised the Munich attack.
Israel’s Labour Party Secretary General MK Hilik Bar said: “The Israeli Labour Party has made it clear that until it sees Labour take real action to fight antisemitism and an absolute retraction by Mr. Corbyn of all the severe statements he has made thus far, proper relations will not be restored and the Labour Party will continue to fight against Mr. Corbyn’s beliefs and the antisemitism that has spread in his party without an adequate response.”
HEJP-ome Secretary says Corbyn should resign after laying wreath for Munich terrorists 
Israeli Labour Party Chairman Avi Gabbay sent a letter to Corbyn in April cutting links with the Labour leader’s office. He said it was his responsibility “to acknowledge the hostility that you [Corbyn] have shown to the Jewish community and the antisemitic statements and actions you have allowed as Leader of the UK Labour Party. We cannot retain relations with you while you fail to adequately address the antisemitism within the UK Labour Party.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted: “The laying of a wreath by Jeremy Corbyn on the graves of the terrorist who perpetrated the Munich massacre and his comparison of Israel to the Nazis deserves unequivocal condemnation from everyone – left, right and everything in between.”
The murder of the Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists in Munich is engraved in Israel’s national memory. The attack began early on Sept. 5, 1972, when eight Black September terrorists entered the Olympic Village and broke into the apartments where the Israeli athletes were sleeping. Two of the Israelis were killed during the hostage-taking, and nine others were taken hostage and killed 20 hours later during a failed rescue attempt.