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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
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投稿者 木村愛二 日時 2005 年 2 月 19 日 13:24:47
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=616702
Livingstone risks Jewish anger with Sharon attack
By Danielle Demetriou
04 March 2005
The dispute between Ken Livingstone and Britain's Jewish leaders was
reignited last night when the London mayor branded Ariel Sharon a war
criminal.
Mr Livingstone launched a provocative critique of Israel with
accusations of "ethnic cleansing" and demonising Muslims before
calling for the imprisonment of its Prime Minister.
The comments were made two weeks after the London mayor
controversially likened a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp
guard.
Mr Livingstone has refused to apologise for his comments, repeatedly
emphasising his anti-racist stance and denying that his words were
anti-Semitic.
His comments on Israel came to light in a written response to
criticism levelled at him by the Board of Deputies of British Jews
which was published in today's Guardian.
"Israel's expansion includes ethnic cleansing," he said. "Palestinians
who had lived in that land for centuries were driven out by systematic
violence and terror aimed at ethnically cleansing what became a large
part of the Israeli state."
He added: "Today the Israeli government continues seizures of
Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding
countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror
to return.
"Ariel Sharon, Israel's Prime Minister, is a war criminal who should
be in prison not in office."
His comments are unlikely to ease already fraught relations between
the mayor and the Jewish community in Britain.
Tensions came to light last year when Mr Livingstone invited the
Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi to speak at a conference in London.
However, at the crux of the current conflict are comments made by the
mayor to Mr Finegold, a reporter at the Evening Standard, last
month. His refusal to apologise for his remarks led to a media storm
that culminated in the diplomatically embarrassing demand by Zvi
Heifetz, Israel's ambassador to Britain, for an apology for "abusing"
the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
"By using such flippant language, Livingstone not only seriously
abused the memories of all those Jews who survived the concentration
camps, but also the British troops who died fighting the Nazis and
their families," he said.
Mr Livingstone has stood by his decision that he was not going to
apologise for his words. At one stage, he said that his words were
"not intended to cause offence" and had no intention of trivialising
the Holocaust. But he added: "The form of words I have used are
right. I have nothing to apologise for."
Yesterday, there was again no sign of apology in Mr Livingstone's
comments. He also claimed in his article that the Israeli government
presented a "wholly distorted picture of racism and religious
discrimination in Europe in order to convey the impression that Jews
suffer most discrimination.
"The reality is that the great bulk of racist attacks in Europe today
are on black people, Asians and Muslims - and they are the primary
targets of the extreme right."
A spokesman for the Board of Deputies told The Guardian: "Once again
the mayor has shown an inability to understand and show consideration
for the Jewish community."
[The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/]
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