right on Beano - Red Ken has a habit of trying to intentionally deeply upset people of the Hebrew faith by consistently comparing the Oriental Jews to Nazies, its blatantly malice driven and provocitive , and in my opinion , racist.
Remeber the wee Jewish reporter he compared to a concentration camp guard ? - (if I were a Jew and copped one like that off that rat , well, i think the young reporter was remarkably restrained - or maybe when he heard the words he thought , 'got him!' - imagine the surprise when ken was not only not sacked, but that no one was really even that bothered he'd said it, anti Semitism on the rise I think being the main factor , if he got on like that 20 years ago he'd have been bounced quicker than you can say "revolutionary workers party")
Old Ken is a nastier peice of work than he gets credit for
(and someone who is prepared to exaserbate (not aid the resolution of) conflicts he fails to understand or have any credible reason to get involved in....)
the mans a weasel who finds (anti- establishment) violence stimulating.

Livingstone has previous form in this area.

He had a run in with a Jewish journalist from the Evening Standard a couple of months ago and made some pretty horrible anti-semitic remarks.

Yeah I remember he compared the journo to a concentration camp guard or something. It's disturbing that someone with so much political influce must so frequently revert to Hitler to make his points.

In that respect I'd encourage everyone to become familiar with a fundamental theory of Godwin's Law (that whoever first resorts to comparisons with the Nazis has automatically lost the argument) and Recucito ad Hitlerum.

that’s what I mean, he's not criticising an individual or state on a rational grievance, he's making a broad insult based on a highly traumatic incident in Jewish history, if you try to insult someone on the grounds of their ethnicity, i.e. try to provoke pain or distress in any individual by espousing insults tailored specifically to their ethnic origin, what else is this but a textbook example of racial abuse?
does it not also show institutional complacency on the part of the London Authority, mayors office etc that a man who publicly purports anti-Semitic insults and refuses to recant or apologise for the distress he caused (to every Jew on the planet who heard it, not just the people he expressed his vindication towards personally) was not dismissed and disgraced ,
Does left wing Arabiphilia equal de-facto anti-Semitism?
Or does ken just glance round the world, pick the ethnic groups he likes and decides who is good and who is bad on the grounds of their ethnic aesthetics...
Why else would he insult creed and history, instead of rationally criticising the Israeli state, if he opposes it so strongly....?