satriales wrote:Hexx wrote:Saying "[Before he went mad Hitler... supported Zionism" is pretty offensive.
Yes, but that is one line in a longer interview. Even it's completely ignorant and untrue, it doesn't suddenly make him anti-Semitic.
Not suddenly no. He’s actually been at it since the 1980s.
This, he suggested, was because "there is a distortion running right the way through British politics", as "a majority of Jews in this country supported the Labour Party and elected a number of Jewish Labour MPs".
Speaking to "Davar", the newspaper published by the Israel's organization of trade unions, Mr Livingstone tried to explain why Jews in Britain were not so keen to vote Labour. They had always supported his party, he insisted, until Menachem Begin came onto the political stage and then "suddenly the Jews became reactionaries, turned Right, nearly to be fascists".
Speaking again to "Davar", Mr Livingstone claimed that "extremist Jews" were organising "paramilitary groups, which resemble fascist organisations", in London and elsewhere. "It is obvious that those Jews will try to hurt me and my reputation," he added.
“As the Jewish community got richer, it moved over to voting for Mrs Thatcher as they did in Finchley.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/0 ... ws-hitler/Some of the things in that list are stretching things a bit, but Livingstone has a very long history of talking about Jews.