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ロンドン市長がユダヤ人記者を戦犯でナチ看守と呼び紛糾中
この市長、ケン・リヴィングストンは、これまでにも何度かユダヤ人批判をしており、確信犯である。
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/14/britain.livingstone.reut/
London mayor in Nazi insult storm
Monday, February 14, 2005 Posted: 1646 GMT (0046 HKT)
Livingstone: No stranger to controversy
Were you a German war criminal?
Actually you are just like a concentration camp guard.
-- Ken Livingstone
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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Britain's Jewish leaders called on Monday for the mayor of London to face an official probe after he refused to apologize for Nazi jibes leveled at a Jewish newspaper reporter.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews said it had lodged a complaint against mayor Ken Livingstone for calling the Jewish journalist "a war criminal" and "a concentration camp guard" during a heated exchange.
"A week has passed since the remarks were made. If at this stage the mayor still does not feel that an apology would be a starting point or required, the matter needs further investigation," a spokesman for the Board of Deputies said.
The Standards Board of England will now consider the complaint against him. It has the power to suspend or ban Livingstone from holding public office.
Despite the growing calls for an apology from Jewish groups, backed by Holocaust survivors and a government minister, the flamboyant mayor again insisted he had no need to say sorry.
"I could apologize but why should I say words I do not believe in my heart? Therefore I cannot," he said on Monday.
In his defense, Livingstone said he had been the victim of a hate campaign lasting almost 25 years at the hands of the Evening Standard and its sister paper, the Daily Mail.
He said to apologize would make him a liar.
"I have spent my entire life fighting against racism -- whether against Jewish people, black people, Asians or anyone else," he added.
The row erupted last week when London Evening Standard reporter Oliver Finegold approached Livingstone after a party.
"Were you a German war criminal," Livingstone is heard on a tape recording saying to Finegold. When the reporter replied he was Jewish, Livingstone said: "Actually you are just like a concentration camp guard."
A colorful and outspoken character, Livingstone is no stranger to controversy. He was thrown out of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party for five years before being readmitted last year despite being an ardent opponent of the war in Iraq.
His refusal to back down on the issue has already led London's major political parties to support a motion demanding he apologise and withdraw the remarks.
"People in public life, like everyone, can make mistakes and should apologize accordingly," said Brian Coleman, chairman of the Greater London Authority, after the motion was passed on Monday.
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