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CALM DOWN CAVEY! If he’s apologised, it’s because a lot of people (not only Jewish) found his comparison of a Jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard totally over the top and not worthy of someone in high office in one of the world’s leading cities. We know what he was trying to say: that a Jewish journalist working for a paper with xenophobic and historically anti-semitic views couldn’t claim that those views were irrelevant to him because he was just doing his job as a journalist (the “I was only following orders” defence). It was the way he said this that was wrong. He hasn’t said anything anti-semitic so doesn’t need to apologise for that, only for using an inappropriate historical comparison. He’s going to offend lots of other people as well, but that’s the way he is, and I hope he’ll apologise to them if it goes too far.
The danger is that by not apologising, he’s giving ammunition to his enemies. What I hope might happen is that the spotlight is now turned on the reporter who works for such a vile newspaper and on his employers who have such an unpleasant history. The real story is someone at the Mail saying “I’m going to throw a little party – a Nazi party”!
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