Andrew Neil brands left-wing antisemitism a 'dangerous trend' in Holocaust Educational speech.

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BBC presenter Andrew Neil has said that antisemitism on the far-left is now a "more dangerous" trend in the UK than the extremism of the "knuckle dragging" far-right.

Delivering the keynote speech at the annual Holocaust Educational Trust dinner in central London, the Daily Politics show host also launched a scathing attack on Ken Livingstone for "intentionally" attempting to link Zionism with Nazi Germany.

The former Sunday Times editor told the audience, which included Home Secretary Amber Rudd, Culture Secretary Sajid Javid and former Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls, that there had always been "a strain of antisemitism" which ran through "parts of the British intellectual left."

But turning his attention to the Mr Livingstone he said: "We have the former Labour Mayor of this city intentionally linking Zionism and Germany in the 1930s based on the ramblings of an obscure Trotskyite historian.

"There can be no bigger insult to link Zionism with Nazi Germany. We know what he was doing, it is clear as night follows day. But he is still regarded a respectable politician in this country."

Mr Neil cited the recent Labour Party conference in Brighton as example of where antisemitism was allowed to enter mainstream politics.

He said: "One person demanded the right to debate -" Holocaust, yes or no?"

"Why ask "yes or no" at a mainstream political party on the Holocaust?"

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/andrew-neil-throws-spotlight-on-labour-antisemitism-in-holocaust-educational-trust-speech-1.446066

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1. There is always been antisemitism among the far left.

It is one of the causes that unite the far left and the far right.


And I think Corbyn has made people more comfortable about expressing antisemitism in the open.