Ken
Livingstone has denied being antisemitic, as one of the leading members of
Britain’s Jewish community said he should be a “political pariah”
because of his claims that Hitler supported Zionism.
Giving
evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism, the former London mayor
said he stood by the comments, and blamed “embittered Blairites” for
forcing his suspension from the Labour Party as part of a bid to undermine
leader Jeremy Corbyn.
He
said he expected the review set up under Shami Chakrabarti to investigate
allegations of antisemitism within the party to find that it involved only a
“handful” of recent recruits and was not a problem
“inherent” to Labour.
