Sadiq Khan Attends Holocaust Memorial as First Official Mayoral Act

Sadiq Khan Attends Holocaust Memorial as First Official Mayoral Act

London's newly elected Muslim mayor paid respect Sunday to the millions of Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first official act in office.

Sadiq Khan made Sunday's appearance at a north London ceremony following a racially charged election campaign during which Conservative Party opponents sought to portray him as an apologist for Islamic extremism and to highlight cases of alleged anti-Semitism within the ranks of Khan's Labour Party.

The annual Yom HaShoah event inside a rugby stadium brought together thousands from London's Jewish community, including more than 150 Holocaust survivors and a combined choir from five Jewish elementary schools. Khan attended alongside Lord Levy, one of Labour's most senior Jewish supporters and the party's former lead fundraiser.

Khan said he was honored to "meet and hear from Jewish survivors and refugees who went through the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust."

London's previous Labour mayor, Ken Livingstone, was suspended last month from the party after he claimed that Adolf Hitler had supported the Zionist aim of establishing Israel. Livingstone, who served as mayor from 2000 to 2008, has defended his comments and has vowed to fight potential expulsion from Britain's main opposition party.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has established an independent inquiry into the extent of anti-Semitic views within party ranks. The left-wing party traditionally has sympathized with Palestinian demands for nationhood and adopted a critical line on Israel.

"Labour is an anti-racist party to its core and has a long and proud history of standing against racism, including anti-Semitism," Corbyn said when establishing the fact-finding probe April 29. It is supposed to recommend party reforms including sanctions against members who adopt bigoted positions.

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Sadiq Khan pledges 'zero tolerance to antisemitism' as he attends Yom HaShoah event

New Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has told the JC that he wants to be a Mayor for all its citizens, pledging "zero tolerance towards antisemitism".

Mr Khan's first public engagement since his election was this afternoon's national Yom HaShoah ceremony, where the announcement of his presence prompted thunderous applause among the 3,000-plus crowd at the Barnet Copthall Stadium in north London.

Speaking afterwards, he said he had felt "privileged" to be there, adding: "I want to be Mayor for all Londoners and there are Londoners who are Holocaust survivors. They want a Mayor who understands the horrors of the Holocaust. And it's important for me as the Mayor to reflect on that, and to be educated on it as well."

And in the light of the suspension of more than a dozen Labour MPs, councillors and activists over allegations of antisemitism, he stressed "the need to understand, not just as the Labour Party but as a civilised society, that racism is racism, and there can't be any hierarchy when it comes to racism. It's really important that message is sent loud and clear from City Hall."

Having met survivors and their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, he reflected: "My fear is that each year there are fewer and fewer survivors and you can't beat first-person testimony. So I'm very pleased that it's been recorded so that successive generations can understand the horrors of the Holocaust."

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev and 200 survivors, veterans and refugees were also at the ceremony. In an emotional address, Rabbi Mirvis called for community members to be "a new generation of heroes", taking up the educational baton from survivors.

"Throughout our schools, our cheders, our synagogues, there are shadows," he said. "There were more than one million children among the dead who never lived to raise families. We are the ones who must come forward and spread the message so the Shoah may never be forgotten.

"We owe it to the six million, to our brave survivors and to the children who perished in the Shoah - the shadows who will never leave us."

Echoing the sentiments, Mr Regev said that "preserving the memory of the Holocaust is more important today than ever before.

"Jews are still being vilifed and targeted just for being Jews, in the Middle East and in the heart of the West.

"Israel is being targeted with the same slurs that have been thrown at Jews for time immemorial.

"Friends, this crazy obsession with the Jewish people and their state has a name - it's called antisemitism. But we are no longer a stateless people searching for a safe haven, no longer powerless. We are sovereign."

Survivor Ben Helfgott told the crowd that the day "evoked painful memories" for him. But the Holocaust must continue to be spoken about, because "evil is ever-present. We must learn how love and friendship and tolerance can counterbalance evil and keep it at bay.

"Our generation of survivors cannot last forever. But the lessons will, because you will remember and keep teaching them."

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I hate jews so fucking much.

TOTAL COINCIDENCE

Are the Pakis calling him a sellout already?

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How long until every leader of a country has to make a pilgrimage to the local Holocaust memorial to reaffirm their allegiance to Zion?
Jews are really going into a higher gear in the recent years.

who drew that?
is he in the gulag?

it happened in london
it was a muzzie

t. Sadiq Khan

Are there fucking holocaust memorials EVERY SINGLE DAY or something?

Kikes always keep in memory that the holocaust, which happebed only in their head, is a good way to profit from white guilt.

If any of you had any doubts that Muslims were anything but willing accomplices to the Jews in seeking to annihilate Christendom and plunder the West, you can shelve them now. ALL SEMITES MUST BE REMOVED.

Pure coincidence.

Six million of them. One memorial per per victim :^)

The victims of holocaust are INNUMERABLE YOU FILTHY GOY ANTI SEMITE.
FOLLOW YOUR LEADER.

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Don't you know that every descendants of those poor ashtray fillers are also victims, that the holocaust is hereditary yet affects all jews and only jews?

That's why we need to finish the job. Eradicate the disease's hosts so the pain stops once and for all.

Weird how they're everywhere in such great numbers yet most army vets are dead.

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They can't let it go. It's almost tragic. I'd cry for them if their meddling wasn't fucking my civilization to dead.

Veterians fought in the war as adults, while most victims of the holocaust were children, since the Nazis were trying to wipe out Jews as an ethnicity.
Also, there were only a few millions people drafted into the military back then, while Europe had about 12 to 16 million Jews, of which 7 to 10 million were murdered by the Nazis.
The numbers have a large range because of the chaos of war, and the fact that many weren't killed in the many death camps which had good documentation, but by einsatzgruppen who killed by firing squad executions (often leaving children locked in houses that were burned or just to starve to death) and did not keep careful records.
So this means you have several million people who survived and, being mostly children, are only in their 70s or 80s, while veterans who fought are in their 90s or greater.

How fucked up is the world that the only person left that makes any sense in Charles Manson.

Somewhat offtopic. In an earlier thread today (don't remember which one) a 4 hour long youtube vid was linked titled "one third of the holocaust" pretty much going through and systematically debunking the Reinhardt camps stories.
It was only a mirror though, and the original channel (denierbud) doesn't exist nor does his website.
I really enjoyed his method though, and assume he had more vids.
Is there a playlist/channel of mirrors of his videos? Have searched but have only found one more (The Surprising Forbidden Truth Auschwitz).

oh wow, well done Britain

britkikes have truly outdone themselves

Someone had to imagine it.

All of his videos except "Auschwitz the Comedy"
(embed) are on the Holocaust Handbooks page

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Sadiq Khan invited to Israel by Tel Aviv mayor

Ron Huldai, Mayor of Tel Aviv has written to the new Mayor of London Sadiq Khan congratulating him on his election success and inviting him to visit Israel.

Mr Huldia said he was “most pleased” with the new mayor’s commitment to being an “uncompromising voice against antisemitism” during his campaign.

In a letter to Mr Khan he said: “Over the past few years, our two cities developed strong ties in the field of start up, economic development, culture, art, and urban practices.

“The deep relationship between my administration and London’s municipality is highly appreciated, and I am sure that this relationship will deepen even further during your term.”

Mr Huldia said he would be “honoured” to host London’s first Muslim mayor in Tel Aviv.

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Nazi retard BTFO