'Deeply offensive': Jewish leaders have criticised John Prescott for comparing Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with the Holocaust John Prescott was last night accused of being ‘deeply offensive’ to Jewish people by comparing the Gaza Strip to a concentration camp. The leaders of Britain’s Jews criticised the comments by the former deputy prime minister, saying they ‘trivialised’ the Holocaust and called on Labour officials to investigate his ‘misconduct’. Lord Prescott wrote in the Sunday Mirror that Israel’s ‘indiscriminate’ bombardment of the Palestinian territory was a war crime and that Gaza was a ‘ghetto’. Some six million Jews were killed by the Nazis during the Second World War, many in concentration camps, while many more were confined to ghettos in major cities such as Warsaw.
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Lord Prescott calls Gaza a 'ghetto' and said Israeli attacks are a war crime
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Board of Deputies of British Jews writes to the Labour party to complain
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'The systematic slaughter of the Holocaust cannot be compared to Gaza'
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