Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Another day and yet another person/organisation calling for Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone's head. As you probably know he faces accusations of racism and anti-Semitism for likening a sleazy (Jewish) journalist to a German war criminal.

Now while the tabloid hack was obviously offended and its early in the morning, I haven't had any coffee and so may not be thinking straight, please can someone explain to me just HOW Ken's comments were racist, let alone anti-Semitic.
If anything Ken's analogy was used as a negative (not pro-Nazi as the papers and extremist Jewish groups would have you believe) in the sense that the journalist worked for the Evening Standard (Who have ran a long hate campaign against Ken and Transport for London for many years now) and Ken has publicly called out that newspaper for its bigotry (hence the German war criminal comment).
This is like explaining the alphabet to a pre-schooler, such is the ridiculousness of hysteria this issue has provoked!

If anything Germans should be offended by Ken's comments - not Jews!

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