6 Links Jeremy Corbyn Doesn’t Want You to Know About

6 Links Jeremy Corbyn Doesn’t Want You to Know About.

4 reasons the “anti-Semitism” attacks on Jeremy Corbyn are dishonest(Dishonest is anunderstatement!)

JeremyCorbyn leading a July 2014 demonstration against the Israeli war on Gaza. Corbyn’s long record of support for Palestinian human rights has led the Israel lobby to slander him as an anti-Semite. RonFFlickr

From the start of his campaign, Jeremy Corbyn, the left-wing candidate for the leadership of the UK’s Labour Party, emphasized that he doesn’t “do personal” and has focused all along on policies.

And these policies are proving so popular that he has surprised everyone by emerging as the front-runner in the election. Voting began this week and the results will be known on 12 September.

As the right-wing of the Labour Party, exemplified by Tony Blair, comes to terms with the reality that they may have lost control of the party, the attacks against Corbyn have become ever more shrill.

Establishment media have piled on. The right-wing Telegraph and the liberal Guardianhave been relentless in campaigning against Corbyn in negative editorials and attack pieces.

Some accusers are trying to paint Corbyn as anti-Semitic. But these dishonest attacks are not driven by any legitimate concern for rooting out anti-Jewish bigotry, but are due to Corbyn’s strong record of Palestine solidarity work.

It’s not hard to understand why: a key feature of the party under Blair was nearly unconditional support for Israel. As my colleague David Cronin put it, Blair “is still spoken of in reverential tones” at Labour Friends of Israel events, and Corbyn coming to power is “something of a nightmarish scenario.”

1. Paul Eisen is an obscure figure

The most shocking accusation, originating with The Daily Mail is that Corbyn has “long standing links” with Paul Eisen, a “notorious” Holocaust denier involved in the group Deir Yassin Remembered.

Eisen certainly expresses disgusting views, denying the Nazi Holocaust took place and frequently expressing other anti-Semitic opinions on his blog.

However, his only real notoriety is for his attempts to infiltrate the Palestine solidarity movement.

Once it became clear what his views were, he was widely condemned and shunned by a movement which is fundamentally anti-racist in its basic principles. Indeed, even in theblog post which the Mail relied on as the source for its smear, Eisen admits that the movement has long “despised me.”

The only real link between the two men (as the Mail conveniently omitted) is that Eisen happens to live in Corbyn’s Islington parliamentary constituency in North London.

Eisen claims to have met him in that capacity – as Corbyn is his member of parliament. It is nonetheless odd that the Mail would be so keen to take the word of a Holocaust denier when it comes to his relationship with Corbyn.

JeremyCorbyn at the 2012 PSC conference where a Holocaust denier was expelled from the membership. Tony Greenstein

A photograph has been produced of a memorial event which the Mail claims was run by Eisen. However, as this 2013 email sent out by the Palestinian Authority’s UK Mission shows, there was nothing in the advertising about the Holocaust and nothing naming Eisen. There were certainly no links to his blog.

Indeed, even on the Deir Yassin Remembered website, Eisen is not named on the contact page, the About page or the Board of Advisors page.

The page misleadingly includes several people as advisors who resigned after some of the the group’s troubling associations became clear.

This includes the Palestinian-American novelist Susan Abulhawa, who stepped down after Eisen wrote an anti-Semiticpost on his blog.

The site of an infamous historical massacre of Palestinian civilians, Deir Yassin was a Palestinian village invaded and destroyed by Zionist militias before the establishment of Israel.

Corbyn was therefore not the only person misled by Deir Yassin Remembered, as detailed in recent blog posts by long standing Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) activists Diane Langford and Tony Greenstein.

The Jewish Socialist journalist Charlie Pottins recounts on his blog the real story of Paul Eisen’s transformation. As he puts it: “if Jeremy Corbyn attended annual events commemorating the Deir Yassin massacre, where is the evidence that he or anybody else at these events thought they were there to support Holocaust denial?”

Finally, it’s worth noting that, as Greenstein recounts, Corbyn was present, as PSC patron, at the 2012 PSC conference where a Holocaust denier was expelled by a massive majority.

2. Raed Salah is a legitimate Palestinian leader

Another line of attack has been Corbyn’s support for Palestinian political and religious leader Raed Salah, who came to Britain in 2011 for a speaking tour.

He was promptly detained by police at his hotel and subjected to deportation proceedings, which he challenged in court.

The Daily Mail claims Salah is a “Muslim hate preacher.” In fact, Salah is one of the most popular leaders among Palestinian citizens of Israel

On Channel 4 News Monday night, Cathy Newman aggressively grilled Corbyn on Eisen and Salah. (Newman was caught out in a lie in February after security camera footage proved she had not been “ushered out” of a London mosque as she had claimed. Newman apparently concocted the story in an attempt to portray South London Islamic Centre as misogynistic – the center received death threats as a result.)

As I reported in 2011 and 2012, when Raed Salah arrived in Britain he was subjected to a vicious Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian media campaign.

It was instigated by pro-Israel lobby groups, which worked in concert with the UK and Israeli governments.

As Haneen Zoabi a leftist Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament noted at the time, Salah was “three times elected mayor of the Palestinian town of Umm al-Fahm.”

“He and I represent different political organizations and traditions,” Zoabi said. “The British authorities have fallen into an Israeli trap. Instead of supporting our leaders and their campaign for freedom and democracy, they are supporting Israeli persecution of the Palestinian citizens of Israel.”

Salah was ultimately vindicated. In April 2012 a judge ruled in his favor “on all grounds.”

Home Secretary Theresa May’s decision to deport Salah was “entirely unnecessary” and she had been “misled” on the facts, the judge said.

One of the accusations leveled at Salah was that he had invoked the anti-Semitic blood libel in a 2007 speech during a Palestinian demonstration against Israeli occupation in Jerusalem.

But the version of the speech reported in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (and relied on during the UK Home Office’s court case against Salah) inserted the word “Jewish” into its version of the speech.

Salah argued that the mention of “holy bread” was actually a reference to the the Spanish inquisition spilling the blood of children and using religion as a cover for its crimes.

Raed Salah in 2014 leading Palestinian protests against suspected Jewish settler attacks on holy places for Muslims and Christians in present day Israel and the West Bank. Omar SameerActiveStills

In a Guardian article published after he was vindicated, Salah clarified that “I don’t believe in the ‘blood libel’ against Jews and I reject it in its entirety” (but a Guardianeditor admitted in the comments section that she had removed this key paragraph from the published opinion piece).

The following year an Israeli court found Salah had not used the blood libel andacquitted him of incitement to racism. But the court jailed him for “incitement” over the protest, which the Israeli government – typically – characterized as a “riot.”

Last year, another Israeli court overturned the acquittal – siding again with the state. On Tuesday, Salah’s lawyer told Middle East Eye that he had appealed the case in the Israeli high court and a ruling is expected in the coming months.

Israel’s long campaign against Salah may even have gone as far as assassination attempts. In 2010, secret video footage showed that the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret police,had attempted to persuade Chaim Pearlman, a known extremist Jewish settler, to assassinate Salah.

At the vanguard of the 2011-12 media campaign against Salah was the Community Security Trust, a registered UK charity which is supposedly an apolitical organization to monitor and combat anti-Semitism. May’s home office relied in large part on the CST for its information.

While CST may do some work combating anti-Jewish hatred, it also systemically conflates valid criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism.

In 2013, for instance, I revealed that the CST secretly played a leading role in establishing a campaign group to tackle the Palestinian movement to boycott Israel.

3. The Israel lobby habitually smears all critics as “anti-Semites”

In the smear campaign against Corbyn, the media are taking their lead from Israel lobby groups, which routinely slander all critics of Israel as anti-Jewish.

Alan Johnson, a Labour Party member, and leading figure in the Israel lobby groupBICOM, blogged at Left Foot Forward in June that “Raed Salah is a deal-breaker” and he could therefore not support Corbyn (Labour blog Left Futures called Johnson’s article “reactionary and dishonest”).

From there, The Jewish Chronicle ramped up a years-long campaign against Corbyn. The Chronicle also played a leading role in the 2011-12 attacks against Salah.

Tellingly, the paper’s Marcus Dysch engages in some disgraceful denial of history of his own when he writes that Deir Yassin was only an “alleged killing.”

Deir Yassin is probably the most well known and well attested historical massacre of Palestinian civilians. More than 100 Palestinians (including babies) were killed by Zionist militias on 9 April 1948.

The terror generated by this massacre and other attacks helped precipate the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their villages in the months before Israel was established, fearing their fate would be the same.

Poet Michael Rosen was one of a group of Jewish left wingers who this week attacked The Jewish Chonicle for its “dishonest” attacks on JeremyCorbyn.RNIBFlickr

The attacks by Cathy Newman and (to a lesser extent) The Daily Mail picked up on theChronicle’s dishonest smears against Corbyn. Corbyn hit back that the attacks were “ludicrous and wrong.”

The CST too, has led attacks on Corbyn.

But fewer people seem to be buying the line that Israel is an embattled democracy that yearns only for peace and that all its critics are just bigots.

On Tuesday, a long list of prominent Jewish left-wing activists (including the beloved children’s poet Michael Rosen) slammed the Chronicle for its “dishonest” and anti-Palestinian attacks on Corbyn: “We do not accept that you speak on behalf of progressive Jews in this country. You speak only for Jews who support Israel, right or wrong.”

4. Not even the Israel lobby directly claims Corbyn is an anti-Semite

The Telegraph splashed on its front page Saturday the headline claim that a Labour lawmaker had accused Corbyn of “anti-Semitic rhetoric.”

Problem: this was a straight-up lie; there was no such claim.

The original statement by Ivan Lewis criticizes Corbyn for allegedly “failing to speak out against [other] people who have engaged … in anti-Semitic rhetoric.”

This is carefully worded to associate Corbyn with anti-Semitism, while falling short of actually libeling him as an anti-Semite.

But even this narrow claim by Lewis, a former vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel, does not stand up to scrutiny.

In 2009, when Lewis was named foreign office minister for the Middle East, The Independent noted that his appointment “raised eyebrows in the Foreign Office” as he had been “one of the most outspoken political supporters of Israel’s [2008-2009] military assault on Gaza. Critics can’t help but wonder how objective Lewis is likely to be in his new post.”

“Friend of Israel” Ivan Lewis meeting with Israeli officials in 2009, when he was foreign office minister for the Middle East. Israel MFAFlickr

Lewis was later tasked by Labour leaders with attempting to get trade unions to reverse their decision to campaign for the boycott of Israel. He failed.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews too, seems sensitive to libeling Corbyn and wouldonly say in its statement to the Daily Mail that “Paul Eisen is a notorious Holocaust denier and if Jeremy Corbyn does have links with him this would be very alarming” (emphasis added).

Ultimately the only thing these attacks prove is that organized supporters of Israel will stop at nothing in their attempt to throw enough mud at a politician who has promised toend the UK’s military support for Israel.

This Is What Happens When Someone Has An Out Of Body Experience.I KNOW I HAVE HAD ONE .

It can happen in a multitude of ways yet always occurs seamlessly and painlessly. It’s probably the most profound, confusing, and utterly mind-blowing experience we can have while on this planet. As a professor and clinician in the field of psychology, I’ve had the pleasure of hearing hundreds of ways this has happened to people and each time, I’m thrilled and exhilarated to hear it again. I’m thrilled because it allows me to relive my own personal experiences, which have occurred in several different ways. Each time, it has left me with a certainty that one can only know through direct experience. This experience is that of leaving one’s own body and feeling the true essence of who we really are, separate from the physical body. The great mystery of life is set free.

Upon leaving the body, we become pure consciousness in an unbridled and uninhibited way. We feel as though there is no weight or substance to that which we are, yet we know we exist in this new form. I am still me. I am completely aware, and certainly more aware than ever. I still exist but with more alertness and clarity than can ever be imagined. I can see far beyond what is in front of me, yet seeing is also a multi-sensory sensation. I also hear with clarity, sounds so beautiful I feel them through my entire being. In fact, every sensation is beyond comprehension and certainly too much for a physical brain and body to absorb. It’s only upon release from the body that the full harmony of multisensory capabilities can truly be felt.

Communication is telepathic and instantaneous. The minute I ask a question in my mind, the answer is superimposed onto the question. I know the answer, the instant I ask it. I can ask anything I wish to know; all knowledge is there about the past and the future I have yet to experience. Asking questions is not so much my concern because the sensation of being out of the physical body is so incredible I just want to be there. In that very moment, I want to be there and nowhere else.

So how does this incredible experience come about to reveal the secret to life within the human body? One way is through Near-Death-Experiences, because when the body dies for some period of time, the release of the life-force is allowed to occur. This can happen in accidents, through surgery, profound illness, or in any other way life as we know it ceases to function. One woman was struck by lightning twice within an hour, and was released from her body on both occasions. A man finds himself standing behind the surgeon performing surgery on his body during by-pass. In another instance, a woman watches her body from the ceiling as a result of an anaphylactic reaction. There are many ways by which the life-force within the body can easily release and be free.

In other instances the body does not die but rather, is under conditions that allow a similar experience. Extreme pain or profound illness can cause the life-force to release. One woman reports being in hospital with extreme pain when suddenly the pain ceases as she watches her body from above the bed. She describes her experience as blissful and her body is not part of the experience at all. Emotional pain through traumatic events can also result in the separation of the body and its life-force. The life-force releases to a place of complete peace and utter joy; it’s free from the sensation of pain of any kind.

Many others report having a similar sensation induced by drugs. One young man finds himself floating over his body at the ceiling watching his drug-induced body below him. Others report having journeys through realms that teach them the purpose of life, with instructions for how to change in order to live more fulfilling lives. Similarly, deep meditation and lucid dreaming can also leave the body in one place while the essence of life is in another. These states have been used by people all over the planet to discover new realms and learn about life itself.

So it doesn’t really matter how it happens or when. For some people it’s a one-time, life changing experience. For others, they have multiple occurrences with multiple lessons learned. It does, however, seem there are several important factors when it occurs. Firstly, it’s more real than anything the physical body can experience. Being released from the body allows for sensations to be experienced beyond what the five senses can possibly allow. Secondly, it’s unforgettable. Even if we try to forget the experience and go back to the physical world as we see it, the secret has been let out and can never be completely erased from memory. Thirdly, this is not an intellectual pursuit which can be known with the brain/mind. It’s a voyage, an experience beyond anything we can know or understand until it happens directly to us. When it happens to you, you’re forever changed. Lastly (but not exhaustively), when in communication or in the presence of others who have also had the experience, we feel at home. We feel a kindred tie, familiarity, and a bond because once again, we feel the true essence of the life we really are.

Why Israel is so concerned about Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader of the Labour party

A FUTURE Labour government under Corbyn would almost certainly reinstate the law of universal jurisdiction on alleged war crimes.

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Andrew Murray, Jeremy Corbyn and the late Tony Benn protesting on 24 Jan 2009 against the BBC’s coverage of Israel’s assault on Gaza.


DISINFORMATIONand propaganda can take the form of omission just as much as straight forward lies and deception.

There is no doubt that that all political parties, one way or another, in the past have been staunch supporters of Israel’s illegal actions over Palestine and its people, more particularly, in the offensive of Gaza starting July 2014.

British government complicity that enables impunity of Israeli war criminals also profits from the death, destruction and apartheid regime imposed.

A future Labour government under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn would almost certainly reinstate the law on Universal Jurisdiction that was quietly amended by the previous Cameron government in order to facilitate the entry into Britain of Israeli politicians and military personnel without fear of arrest for alleged war crimes.

That contentious action was taken by the then Conservative Foreign Minister, William Hague, in order to accede to the demands of Binyamin Netanyahu and the government of Israel, and against the opposition of UK human rights groups.

The then Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke said at the time:

‘We are clear about our international obligations and these new changes to existing law will ensure the balance is struck between ensuring those who are accused of such heinous crimes do not escape justice and that universal jurisdiction cases are only proceeded with on the basis of solid evidence that is likely to lead to a successful prosecution. These changes are essential to ensure we do not risk damaging our ability to help in conflict resolution or to pursue a coherent foreign policy.’

In other words, it means the current government can choose what is and what is not a ‘heinous crime’ and what is and what is not ‘solid evidence’. This would likely be changed under Jeremy Corbyn which is why Israel has been vocal in its criticism of the labour leadership frontrunner.

A legal update in 2014 included the following;

“Any person, whatever his nationality, who, whether in or outside the United Kingdom, commits, or aids, abets or procures the commission by any other person of a grave breach of any of the scheduled conventions or the first protocol shall be guilty of an offence”

The “scheduled conventions” cover:

  1. the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and sick in armed forces in the field
  2. wounded sick & shipwrecked members of armed forces at sea
  3. the treatment of the prisoners of war
  4. the protection of civilian persons in time of war. (The “first protocol” relates to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts).

And under each convention (Geneva Convention Act, Criminal Justice Act and International Criminal Court Act) is an Article (50, 51, 130 & 147 respectively) which sets out the “grave breaches” – acts including:

  • wilful killing,
  • torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;
  • wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health;
  • unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a protected person;
  • compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power;
  • wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in the present Convention;
  • taking of hostages;
  • extensive destruction and appropriation of property.

Interestingly almost all of the ‘grave breaches’ stated above have been carried out by Israel either before, during or after the 2014 Gaza offensive

The re-instatement of this important piece of human rights legislation would bring Britain back into line with most of Europe where those alleged guilty of war crimes can be arrested pending trial.

The current suspension of this law in Britain has since enabled various members of the previous and/or present Israel government to visit the UK and to travel freely within the country to raise funds and/or disseminate propaganda to support the policies of Likud Prime Minister, Netanyahu, without fear of apprehension by the authorities.

There is certainly a strong feeling that a reversal of that erroneous policy is now well overdue in order to maintain Britain’s obligations to respect human rights and the International Court.

Sources of information of listed ‘grave breaches’  of the conventions constituting war crimes:

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A DEA officer stopped at a ranch in Texas, and talked with an old rancher. He told the rancher, “I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs.” The rancher said, “Okay , but don’t go in that field over there…..”, as he pointed o
ut the location.
The DEA officer verbally exploded saying, ” Mister, I have the authority of the Federal Government with me!” Reaching into his rear pants pocket, the arrogant officer removed his badge and proudly displayed it to the rancher. “See this fucking badge?! This badge means I am allowed to go wherever I wish…. On any land !! No questions asked or answers given!! Have I made myself clear?…. do you understand?!!”
The rancher nodded politely, apologized, and went about his chores. A short time later, the old rancher heard loud screams, looked up, and saw the DEA officer running for his life, being chased by the rancher’s big Santa Gertrudis bull…… With every step the bull was gaining ground on the officer, and it seemed likely that he’d sure enough get gored before he reached safety. The officer was clearly terrified. The rancher threw down his tools, ran to the fence and yelled at the top of his lungs…..

“Your badge, show him your fucking BADGE!!”

“Kill Anything”: Israeli Soldiers Say Gaza Atrocities Came from Orders for Indiscriminate Fire – YouTube

“Kill Anything”: Israeli Soldiers Say Gaza Atrocities Came from Orders for Indiscriminate Fire – YouTube.

A new report based on testimonies of Israeli soldiers concludes the massive civilian death toll from last summer’s Israeli assault on Gaza resulted from a policy of indiscriminate fire. The Israeli veterans group Breaking the Silence released testimonies of more than 60 Israeli officers and soldiers which it says illustrate a “broad ethical failure” that “comes from the top of the chain of command.” More than 2,200 Palestinians were killed in the assault, the vast majority civilians. On Israel’s side, 73 people were killed, all but six of them soldiers. During the 50-day operation, more than 20,000 Palestinian homes were destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced. We hear candid video testimonies from the soldiers and speak to former Israeli paratrooper Avner Gvaryahu, director of public outreach at Breaking the Silence.

Barbara Streisand mega star , Israel Jewish Zionist , supporter ,and friend of notorious,1960s gangster and murderer ronnie kray of THE KRAY TWINS ,RONNIE AND REGGIE.

Described as the most dangerous men in Britain, the Krays were never shy about posing for the cameras. And as these unseen images show, they revelled in their reputations right from the start. Whether it was the glamorous clubs of the West End or the local lido in the East End, the pair always wore their famous swagger with pride. These photographs, which feature in a new book on the brothers, were drawn from the private collections of friends of the Krays. They feature scores of Kray associates such as Dickie Morgan, who the twins met while being held at the Tower of London and glamorous friends like actress Barbara Windsor. The book: The Krays From the Cradle to the Grave has been released in what would have been the twin's 80th year.
A signed picture to Ronnie Kray from Barbara Streisand
one should be careful of one,s bedfellows so to speak as their ghosts can come back and bite you in the rear ,
Described as the most dangerous men in Britain, the Krays were never shy about posing for the cameras. And as these unseen images show, they revelled in their reputations right from the start. Whether it was the glamorous clubs of the West End or the local lido in the East End, the pair always wore their famous swagger with pride. These photographs, which feature in a new book on the brothers, were drawn from the private collections of friends of the Krays. They feature scores of Kray associates such as Dickie Morgan, who the twins met while being held at the Tower of London and glamorous friends like actress Barbara Windsor. The book: The Krays From the Cradle to the Grave has been released in what would have been the twin's 80th year.
 In 1968 the glamour came to an end when the twins were arrested and jailed for murder. The Kray twins (left and right) with Dickie Morgan (centre right) and another associate in Bethnal Green.Ronnie had shot rival gang member George Cornell in the face as he drank in the Blind Beggar pub and Reggie had stabbed gang member Jack ‘The Hat’ McVitie in the face and neck.

Iran nuclear deal: Obama and Netanyahu make competing appeals to US Jews 05/08 11:07 CET

President Barack Obama has reportedly told Jewish leaders in the US that it is likely rockets will fall on Tel Aviv, if a nuclear deal with Iran is blocked and military action follows.

America’s administration says the accord is the only way to avoid eventual war with Tehran.

Greg Rosenbaum, one of 20 Jewish leaders who met Obama at the White House on Tuesday, said on Israel Radio that the president spelled out what exercising a US military option to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities would mean if the deal between world powers and Tehran was scrapped.

“He said military action by the United States against Iran’s nuclear facilities is not going to result in Iran deciding to have a full-fledged war with the United States,” Rosenbaum, of the National Jewish Democratic Council, quoted Obama as telling the forum.

“‘You’ll see more support for terrorism. You’ll see Hezbollah rockets falling on Tel Aviv.’ This is what he said would happen if the US had a military strike on Iran,” Rosenbaum said, referring to the Iranian-backed Lebanese group and its long-range missile arsenal.

In a separate appeal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has said the nuclear deal “paves Iran’s path to the bomb” – and could spark a catastrophic Middle East conflict.

“I don’t oppose this deal because I want war. I oppose this deal because I want to prevent war. And this deal will bring war. It’ll spark a nuclear arms race in the region and it will feed Iran’s terrorism and aggression,” he said in a webcast.

The nuclear deal struck last month will see international sanctions lifted.

A steady stream of European officials have visited Tehran since, including Italy’s foreign minister.

The Republican-led US House of Representatives will vote on whether to reject the agreement when lawmakers return to Washington in September, party leaders said on Tuesday, setting up a showdown with the president.

Cilla Black Dead: TV Presenter, Singer And Showbiz Legend Dies, Aged 72,friend of CLIFF RICHARD AND AT ONE TIME ROLF HARRIS,-

TV personality, singer and all-round showbiz legend Cilla Black has sadly died, at the age of 72.

A spokesperson for the Spanish police has confirmed that Cilla died overnight, while on holidayat her house in the Spanish Costa del Sol.cilla black

Cilla Black

She said: “I can confirm the death of British national Priscilla White, aged 72.

“We are still awaiting autopsy results but everything at this stage is pointing towards her death being the result of natural causes.”

Cilla’s career began in the 1960s, after rising to prominence as a singer, with a string of hit singles to her name, including ‘Alfie’, ‘Step Inside Love’ and ‘Anyone Who Had A Heart’, which came to be known as one of her signature songs.

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Cilla in 1965

Over the years, she later made the break from the world of music to TV, fronting hit shows like ‘Surprise, Surprise’ and ‘Blind Date’, among others.

Cilla was married to her manager, Bobby Willis, for over 30 years, until he passed away in 1999, after suffering from lung cancer.

Together, she and Bobby had three sons, Robert, Ben and Jack.

More recently, a three-part TV biopic about the early days of Cilla’s career aired on ITV, with Sheridan Smith in the leading role, which eventually earned her a National Television Award for Best Drama Performance, as well as a TV Bafta nomination.

The entertainer had been suffering from arthritis and deafness and told the Daily Mail last December she was “falling apart”.

Black said she no longer felt able to work despite getting a series of offers following the ITV drama Cilla, in which Sheridan Smith depicted the early stages of her career.

cilla,s secrets about jimmy savile , rolf harris and cliff richard are safe now;but are they ?Cilla kept diaries ,what will they reveal? we can but wait and see.