'Why Livingstone get my vote'
"In the week after the July 7 bombings, Johnson wrote a piece which described the Koran and Islam itself, not merely Islamic radicalism, as 'viciously sectarian' and 'medieval', accusing it of 'disgusting arrogance', and adding that Islamophobia was a 'natural reaction' to Muslim holy texts. Now ask yourself, as a Jew, how you would feel if someone who wrote that way about Jews and Judaism was leading in the polls for the London mayoralty. Then ask yourself, as a Londoner, whether that was the message we needed to hear in the immediate aftermath of 7/7 when every other public figure, including our own Chief Rabbi, was urging people to come together and not to turn on a religious minority because of the wicked actions of four murderous individuals."
Jonathan Freedland explains why the Jewish community should back Ken Livingstone against Boris Johnson in the London mayoral election.
Martin Sullivan