Members of Britain’s Jewish community condemned a Jewish woman’s decision to represent a far-right party in a local London election. Pat Richardson, who will contest the seat in June for the British National Party, or BNP, denied that the party was anti-Semitic and promoted Holocaust denial. “I think that is way, way back in the past,” Richardson told the London-based Jewish News.
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