TIMES OF ISRAEL
Herzog to UK Labour leaders: Visit Yad Vashem, remember what happened to the Jews
by Staff
April 30, 2016

Israel’s opposition leader Isaac Herzog responded furiously Saturday to the ongoing row over anti-Semitism in Britain’s Labour Party, inviting its senior officials to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem for a reminder of the results of anti-Semitism. In a lengthy Facebook post in Hebrew, Herzog, who heads the Zionist Union as well as its senior partner Labor, slammed the “repulsive” comments made Thursday by former London mayor Ken Livingstone, who said that Hitler supported Zionism “before he went mad.” Herzog also castigated Livingstone’s “anti-Semitic colleague” MP Naz Shah. The latter was this week revealed to have posted a message on Facebook in 2014 calling for the dismantling of the State of Israel, and to have post pro-Hamas tweets and compared Israelis to Hitler. Both have been suspended by the party. READ MORE