London’s mayor stirred up another controversy over racist remarks to Jews. Ken Livingstone said Tuesday that Jewish property developers David and Simon Rueben had created a “poisonous state of relations” among the planners of the city’s Olympic Games complex, and that if they were “not happy here perhaps they could go back to Iran and try it under the ayatollahs.”
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