Britain – The Mayor of London Will Be Suspended from Office for a Month Because of Antisemitic Remarks

The Mayor of London, Ken Livingston, will be suspended from office for one month for comparing a Jewish newspaper reporter to a guard in a Nazi concentration camp. The Disciplinary Court of the Civil Service in Britain claimed that Linvingston had brought shame upon his office and that he will be suspended from office from 1^st March 2005 for a period of four weeks. The matter goes back to February 2005, when Livingston confronted the journalist Oliver Feingold regarding a series of uncomplimentary articles that had appeared in the Evening Standard, the newspaper for which Feingold works. Livingston asked Feingold: “What did you do before this? Were you a Nazi war criminal”? Feingold answered: “No, I’m a Jew. I was not a German war criminal, and to tell the truth this is rather insulting”. Livingston replied: “Actually, you are exactly like a guard in a concentration camp. You do it because you are paid, don’t you”?