Ex-mayor of London suspended from party
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BRITAIN’S opposition Labor Party yesterday suspended former London mayor Ken Livingstone after he said Adolf Hitler supported Zionism, in a furious row over anti-Semitism that is dividing the party.
“Ken Livingstone has been suspended ... pending an investigation, for bringing the party into disrepute,” said a Labor spokesman.
Livingstone told BBC radio: “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 six million Jews.”
“I have been in the Labor Party for 40 years and I have never heard anyone say anything anti-Semitic.
“I’ve heard a lot of criticism for the state of Israel and its abuse of Palestinians, but I have never heard someone be anti-Semitic,” he said.
He was defending Labor lawmaker Naz Shah, who was suspended on Wednesday for sharing allegedly anti-Semitic posts on social media amid growing claims that the party under veteran socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn has a problem in which criticism of Israel has strayed into anti-Semitism.
Shah told parliament’s lower House of Commons that she “profoundly” regretted the posts made in 2014, before she became a lawmaker.
She shared a graphic of Israel superimposed onto the US under the words “Solution for Israel-Palestine Conflict — Relocate Israel into United States,” adding the comment: “Problem solved.”
She also used the hashtag #IsraelApartheid above a quote saying “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
More than 20 Labor MPs had earlier called on Corbyn to suspend Livingstone following his BBC interview.
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