A British commission will investigate comments by the mayor of London in which he compared a Jewish journalist to a Nazi concentration camp guard. The country’s Commission for Racial Equality said Thursday it would ask the Standards Board of England to see whether Ken Livingstone’s comments violated the country’s race relations laws.
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