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.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
