Posted on 04/04/2017 10:02:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A furious row erupted inside and outside the Labour party last night after former London mayor Ken Livingstone was “given a slap on the wrist” over anti-Semitic comments.
Mr. Livingstone — who had been suspended from the party last April over remarks saying Hitler had supported Zionism — was handed a further 12-month ban from representing Labour. He will remain a full member of the party and will still be allowed to take part in Labour votes and attend meetings. But MPs, including some from his own party’s shadow cabinet, described the move as “shameful” and said the party leadership had “bottled it” and should have expelled the controversial politician.
And Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said Labour had failed the Jewish community in Britain. Mr. Mirvis said: “This was a chance for the Labour Party to show that it would not tolerate willful and unapologetic baiting of the Jewish community, by shamefully using the Holocaust as a tool with which to inflict the maximum amount of offense. Worryingly, the party has yet again failed to show that it is sufficiently serious about tackling the scourge of anti-Semitism. The Labour Party has failed the Jewish community, it has failed its members and it has failed all those who believe in zero tolerance of anti-Semitism.”
The former Mayor of London was suspended from the party in April last year after claiming that Hitler supported Zionism in the 1930s “before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews”. …
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Well, never mind Red Ken; they haven’t given Jeremy Corbyn and others the boot either. What does that tell you?
Some Nazis did support Zionism for a while, in the 20s-30s, as a way to get the Jews out of Germany. I dont know that Hitler himself did.
As Voltaire stated, “You can tell who rules us by those who you can never criticize.” (Well, something like that....) Censorship of ideas is evil. You only get closer to the truth with debate of ideas, like our Founders.
Everyone has a right to their opinion (FREEDOM OF THOUGHT) and if they disagree with Livingstone, Fine, be vocal, but no censoring and punishing Livingstone because of his beliefs.
I found nothing wrong with Livingstones REAL statement, which is now twisted and they are claiming he said something different than what is the truth. It is something that could be easily debated and proven true or not. Why not set up a debate like a FREE, just country would do? DEBATE the issue.......it should be debated, never censored. Only truth will set us free.
That quote is actually Kevin Strom. I’d stay away from it on that basis.
Much like here they won’t listen
There are things they hate more
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