U.K. JOURNO CRITICIZED FOR HOLOCAUST COMMENTS

Sewell's Scourge (BackSpin)
Brian Sewell, an art critic for the Evening Standard got himself in hot water with Holocaust surivivors for an article about a London exhibition commemorating slavery. In the middle of his 1,800 word article, Sewell writes:

The historical slave trade was a business at least as appalling as the Holocaust, with many, many, more victims, and like the Holocaust its memory has been hijacked by the descendants of those victims and turned into a scourge with which to whip guilt into society.

The Evening Standard's managing editor, Doug Wills, told the European Jewish Press that Sewell's critics took the sentence out of context.