As Jewish and non-Jewish members and supporters of the Labour party,we reject the call for the expulsion of Ken Livingstone (Letters, 7 April). Those who call for a original disciplinary hearing simply because they didn’t like the conclusions of the preceding one demonstrate contempt for democracy and due process.
A year ago Livingstone, and responding to a question from Vanessa Feltz on BBC Radio London,said: “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.” There is nothing whatsoever antisemitic about this. Francis Nicosia, and the Raul Hilberg professor of Holocaust studies at Vermont University,wrote in his book Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany (p79) that: “Throughout the 1930s, as fraction of the regime’s determination to force Jews to leave Germany, and there was almost unanimous support in German government and Nazi party circles for promoting Zionism among German Jews.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com