LONDON'S MAYOR IS IN TROUBLE AGAIN FOR REMARKS ABOUT JEWS

Mayor's 'Latest Anti-Semitic Remark' (NY Sun)

Fresh off his suspension for making anti-Semitic remarks to a reporter, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, told "two Jewish property developers should go back to where they came from," the Jerusalem Post reports.

Currently fighting a four-week suspension handed down by a civil service panel for likening a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard, the mayor's newest comments arose during a March 21 press conference over a discussion of the 4 billion pound 'Olympic City' building project in London's East End. The mayor blamed developers David and Simon Rueben for having created a "poisonous state of relations" within the syndicate building the project and stated if the Ruebens were "not happy here perhaps they could go back to Iran and try it under the Ayatollahs." Asked by reporters to clarify his remark, the mayor affirmed his sentiments, saying the Reuben brothers, born in Bombay to Iraqi Jewish parents and British residents for the past 40 years, should "try their luck with the ayatollahs" ... The mayor's "latest anti-Semitic remark" was "shocking, outrageous and grossly offensive to the entire Jewish community" the London Assembly's Conservative Group said in a press statement.