HERZOG TO UK LABOR LEADERS: ‘VISIT YAD VASHEM, REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO THE JEWS’:

 Israel’s Opposition leader Isaac Herzog responded furiously Saturday 31 April 2016, to the ongoing row over anti-Semitism in Britain’s Labor Party. In a lengthy Facebook post Herzog, who heads the Zionist Union slammed the "repulsive” comments made Thursday 28 April 2016, by former London mayor Ken Livingstone, who said that Hitler supported Zionism "before he went mad.”

"Hitler was a Zionist?!” Herzog wrote. "This is what a senior official in the British Labor Party says. A miserable and contemptible anti-Semitic statement,”Herzog continued. "This morning I sent a sharp letter to the head of the Labor Party and the party leadership, in which I warn against the disease of anti-Semitism and its consequences. There are no words to express how repulsive are this statement and others voiced in his party in recent day. I decided to invite the heads of Labor, precisely on the week of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, to visit Yad Vashem, (Israel’s Holocaust Museum) to understand how shocking Livingstone’s statements are. "When they arrive, I myself will give them a tour, to remind them of the painful realities they have forgotten, but we remember every day. "To Livingstone, who said that Hitler supported Zionism and his anti-Semitic colleague Shah who suggested that we relocate to the United States, I offer this reminder: The last time someone drove Jews from place to place it was by train to concentration camps, but this will not happen again. It will not happen because we have learned the lesson from such anti-Semites, and we will deal with them before they try to harm us. When we utter on Holocaust memorial days the sentence: Never again! It is these anti-Semites that we are referring to!” (Times of Israel)