Ken livingstone hitler comments about jews

Ken Livingstone has insisted Adolf Hitler DID support Zionism and refused to apologise for saying it in a heated grilling by MPs.

The ex-mayor dug in his heels at an anti-Semitism hearing in Parliament despite his views leading Labour to suspend him.

Using 'Hitler' as his fifth word at the Home Affairs Select Committee, he said: "He was supporting Zionism.

He wanted all the half million German Jews out".

In defiant mood the 70-year-old left-winger said he'd go back in time and unsay his Hitler remarks if he could.

But that would only be because it "allowed all the anti-Jeremy people in the party to whip it up into a bigger issue", he told MPs.

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