Acclaimed historian Professor Deborah Lipstadt has compared Jeremy Corbyn’s refusal to disown Holocaust deniers with those in America who refuse to reject people who use the ‘n’ word.
In an interview to promote her new book Anti-Semitism: Here And Now, the woman who successfully took on the Holocaust-denying British historian David Irving said: “No respectable politician would associate with anyone who used the 'n' word. The same should apply to Corbyn over antisemitism.”
Professor Lipstadt – who had her epic legal battle against Mr Irving turned into the 2016 film Denial – also attacked the Labour leader’s attempt to repeatedly present himself as a life-long anti-racist who cannot be tarnished with the allegation of antisemitism.
She highlighted his references to his mother Naomi's role in the anti-fascist Cable Street riots in 1936, when Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts marched through a district of London's East End which had a large Jewish community.
