WJC News Update – ‘Appalling decision’: British Jews outraged after Labour Party fails to expel Ken Livingstone

2017. április 5 20:49

WJC News Update – ‘Appalling decision’: British Jews outraged after Labour Party fails to expel Ken Livingstone

 

 

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 05 April 2017
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Small blog livingstone ‘Appalling decision’: Outrage in British Jewish community about Livingstone rulingJewish groups in Britain have decried a panel’s decision not to expel Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London, from the Labour Party after he had claimed that during the 1930s Zionists collaborated with Nazi Germany.

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