‘IT’S A CORB-SPIRACY!’
KEN Livingstone has claimed Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis is “absolutely” a conspiracy against Jeremy Corbyn as he ranted once again abut Hitler and Zionism.
He was asked on Good Morning Britain to discuss his longstanding friend and the Labour party’s NEC finally adopting the full definition of hatred towards Jews.
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But instead the former Mayor of London spent the whole time debating Nazi history and refused to back down over the comments which saw him leave from the party.
Presenters Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid were left speechless by the 73-year-old’s comments, who doubled down on his controversial claims.
Mr Livingstone, who resigned from Labour in May having been suspended for the previous two years over the comments, said: “I said that in the 1930s Hitler supported Zionism.
“Not because he liked German Jews, but because he did a deal with the German Zionists.”
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He added: “There’s a complete difference. He did a deal.”
And he once again tried to claim he never even said that Hitler was a Zionist, saying that no journalist had ever rung him to check the quotes.
But he came under fire from Mr Morgan, who hit back: “When you say Hitler supported Zionism, if I’m a British Jew listening to a senior Labour politician as you were at the time saying that.
"I’m going ‘hang on a second, what do you mean he supported Zionism’. He exterminated six million Jews.
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"When you try and say ‘when I say he supported Zionism, I don’t mean he’s a Zionist’, it’s a bit like saying to me ‘Piers I know you support Arsenal, but I’m not saying you’re an Arsenal fan’."
But he refused to relent, and asked if he thinks “accusations of anti-Semitism against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party are part of a conspiracy” he replied with an emphatic: “Absolutely.”
Mr Livingstone added: “Because the establishment, the great corporations, the super-rich, they launder their money overseas they don’t pay tax.
“They’re terrified that a Jeremy Corbyn government will make them pay their fair share of tax. And we’ll move on from anti-Semitism to other smears.”
Ken Livingstone tells Piers Morgan that 'of course' he still believes Hitler supported Zionism in debate about anti-Semitism in Labour
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He said: “Literally anything will be done by the establishment to stop Jeremy winning the election.”
Pushed again about whether he believed Hitler really did support Zionism, he continued to repeat himself as an angry Piers kept cutting him off, leading to testy exchanges.
Mr Livingstone told him he “mustn’t have got a very good education”, with the presenter hitting back: “I was educated well enough not to bang on about Hitler being a supporter of Zionism.”
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