British Jewish groups are criticizing London’s mayor for comparing a Jewish newspaper reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard. The president of the British Board of Deputies, Henry Grunwald, said Mayor Ken Livingstone’s “insensitivity seems to know no bounds.” Livingstone made the comments last week in a verbal clash with reporter Oliver Finegold of the London Evening Standard, a paper critical of Livingstone.
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