"Corybn famously referred to Hamas and Hezbollah [as] "friends", but more damningly, in the same speech, he judged those Jew-hating organisations to be dedicated to peace, to the good of the Palestinian people, and to political and social justice. If somebody claimed that the KKK was dedicated to the good of the US South, we would have no problem in reading that as a statement of political support for the Klan."

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See The Guardian (2 June 2017) for the 2009 speech in which Corbyn made his "friends" comment. Corbyn said while Labour leader: "No. It was inclusive language I used which with hindsight I would rather not have used. I regret using those words, of course", as cited in a report of comments at the Home Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons in The Guardian (4 July 2016).