Board of Deputies of British Jews President Marie van der Zyl warned MPs not to make “extremely inappropriate” comparisons with Nazism, and pointed out that Hitler wrote of “exterminating” Jews eight years before he came to power.
A Scottish Nationalist has apologised after claiming the Holocaust was not part of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s “manifesto” in an ill-judged jibe at modern politicians.
Scottish National Party (SNP) MP Peter Grant made the “abhorrent” comparison in an angry response to a tweet by former Times editor and broadcaster Andrew Neil, a fellow Scotsman.
Neil re-tweeted a post from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland on Thursday, adding that allegations of “fascism” are nowadays “bandied about today like confetti by the ignorant, ludicrously devaluing the word of any meaning”.
“Not until they’d been in power several years & stoked up fear & hatred against innocent citizens. Then, and only then, did they show their true colours”, he added.
But Board of Deputies of British Jews President Marie van der Zyl warned Grant and other MPs not to make “extremely inappropriate” comparisons with Nazism, and pointed out that Hitler wrote of “exterminating” Jews eight years before he came to power.
Mein Kampf (My Struggle) was Hitler’s autobiography and manifesto written while he was in prison for leading the failed Munich Beer Hall Putsch against the German Weimar Republic in 1923.
The nationalist MP did indeed delete the post later on Friday, tweeting an apology, which Neil accepted.
”This tweet was absolutely abhorrent and beyond the pale”, Conservative MSP Stephen Kerr said. “For an elected SNP MP to post this was hugely offensive as well as being completely inaccurate”.
The SNP was founded in 1934 with the aim of splitting Scotland off from the UK. The separatist party lost the 2014 referendum on the issue by a margin of more than 10 percent, but has used the UK’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union as a pretext to demand a repeat of the vote, claiming most Scots want to re-join the bloc, dominated by Germany and France.
SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson last month of leaving “hundreds of thousands of EU nationals” living in Britain who have failed to apply for the settled immigration status offered to them in “limbo” by not extending a deadline for applications that expired on 30 June. This week, Blackford tried to blame the government for online racist abuse directed at black England football player.
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