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Jeremy Corbyn has been praised by the ex-leader of the BNP and a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after a video emerged in which he claimed that British Zionists “don’t understand English irony”.
Nick Griffin and David Duke rallied behind the Labour leader on Friday morning amid a backlash over the remarks, which were made during a speech in 2013.
Mr Corbyn faced widespread condemnation when footage emerged of him appearing to suggest that Zionist-supporting Jews were not fully accustomed to English culture.
Speaking alongside Manuel Hassassian, the Palestinian Authority representative in Britain, Mr Corbyn referred to one of the envoy’s recent speeches, which he said had been “dutifully recorded by the thankfully silent Zionists who were in the audience”.
He continued: “[They] berated him afterwards for what he’d said. So clearly two problems. One is that they don’t want to study history and secondly, having lived in this country for a very long time, probably all their lives, they don’t understand English irony either.
“Manuel does understand English irony and uses it very, very effectively so I think they need two lessons which we can help them with.”
Luciana Berger MP, a chairman of the Jewish Labour Movement, said that his remarks were “inexcusable” and made her “feel unwelcome in my own party”.
“I’ve lived in Britain all my life and I don’t need any lessons in history/irony.”
Jennifer Gerber, director of Labour Friends of Israel, described Mr Corbyn’s comments as “despicable”, while Wes Streeting, a Labour MP, and member of the parliamentary group on anti-Semitism, said “the language used here is inexcusable and abhorrent”.
Within hours of the row starting, Nick Griffin took to social media to declare his support for Mr Corbyn, who he claimed had been the victim of a “hysterical Zionist media campaign”.
“Go Jezza!” he added.
His comments were echoed by David Duke, an American white supremacist, anti-Semite and conspiracy theorist.
Responding to a tweet from Mr Corbyn, who pledged to “break the stranglehold of elite power” over the media, Duke said: “He’s right, you know.”
On Friday morning, John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, risked intensifying the row when he suggested that Mr Corbyn’s remarks had been taken “out of context” in an “unacceptable way”.
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn said: "Jeremy is totally opposed to all forms of antisemitism and is determined to drive it out from society.
“At this event, he was referring to a group of pro-Israel activists misunderstanding and then criticising the Palestinian Ambassador for a speech at a separate event about the occupation of the West Bank."