This video shows Labour Director of Strategy and Communications Seumas Milne praising Hamas’ “spirit of resistance” and saying “they will not be broken“, to huge cheers. Hamas is a proscribed terror group…

The Hamas Charter talks about killing Jews:

“The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say, ‘O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'”

It says the banner of jihad must be raised against Jews:

“The day that enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem. In face of the Jews’ usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised.”

Amnesty International says Hamas is guilty of a “brutal campaign of abductions, torture and unlawful killings against Palestinians”. And Amnesty also says Hamas is guilty of war crimes. PoliticsHome have asked a Labour spokesman to comment on this Labour spokesman’s views, but they don’t comment on staffing matters…