A spate of anti-Semitic incidents escalated in British politics this week — and forced the country’s center-left Labour Party to do some serious soul-searching about its members and values.Here’s what you need to know:A Prominent British Politician Made Some Incendiary Anti-Semitic RemarksKen Livingstone, the former mayor of London, was suspended from the United Kingdom’s main opposition party Thursday for claiming that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler supported Zionism — the movement to create a Jewish state — “before he went mad.””When Hitler won his election in 1932, his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel,” Livingstone said.He defended …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
