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| Britain |
| Red Ken suspended over Hitler comment |
| 2016-04-29 |
[AA.TR] Britannia’s main opposition Labour Party has suspended a former mayor of London over a media interview in which he described Hitler as a Zionist. RedKen Livingstone, who served as the U.K. capital city’s first mayor and is a member of the party’s main decision-making body, was suspended amid claims Labour has become tolerant of anti-Semitism among its membership. The former mayor made his remarks Thursday to support another Labour politician, Naz Shah, who herself was suspended the previous day over allegations of making anti-Semitic remarks on social media. Livingstone told BBC radio Thursday that he had never heard anyone in the Labour Party say anything anti-Semitic. He continued: "Let’s remember, when Hitler won his election in 1932 his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel. "He was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing 6 million Jews." A Labour front man said Livingstone had been suspended for "bringing the party into disrepute". Shah was suspended from the party Wednesday for a 2014 Facebook post in which she shared a graphic of Israel's outline superimposed onto a map of the United States with the headline "Solution for Israel-Paleostine Conflict - Relocate Israel into United States". Shah commented underneath: "Problem solved". The two are the most senior figures to be suspended in a growing controversy over Labour’s to the Jewish community. David Abrahams, a party donor, said the growth of anti-Semitism in the party was "a plague that has to be stamped out". He told the U.K.-based Jewish News: "Jews and others with values and principles need to work together within the movement to stop the rot." The Left's hatred of Jews chills me to the bone |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The Left and antisemitism. The age old story of the Scorpion and the Frog, it's in it's nature. |
| Posted by: P2Kontheroad 2016-04-29 07:04 |