Former London mayor Ken Livingstone tells an Arabic language TV station that the creation of Israel was “fundamentally wrong,” and “a great catastrophe.”
The Labour official, who has been suspended by his party for saying that Hitler supported Zionism “before he went mad,” tells the UK-based Al-Ghad Al-Arabi: “The creation of the State of Israel was a great catastrophe. We should have absorbed the post-WWII Jewish refugees in Britain and America. They could all have been resettled, whereas 70 years later, the situation is still very tense, and there is potential for many more wars, potential for nuclear war.”
Livingstone also advocates for an international boycott on Israeli products, telling his interviewer that “I never buy anything” that comes from Israel. “I like dates, but I don’t buy dates that come from Israel,” he says, according to the watchdog MEMRI group.
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