London’s mayor was cleared of anti-Semitic charges over comments he made regarding two British Jewish businessmen. A London governmental investigator decided that Ken Livingstone was not guilty of anti-Semitism when he said David and Simon Reuben should “go back to Iran and try their luck with the ayatollahs” because he did not know at the time that the two brothers are Jewish.
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