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Watch: Starmer denies using Holocaust memorial for political purposes after criticism

"Labour’s Kier Starmer and David Lammy using the Holocaust memorial as a backdrop for their party political video. This is a massive faux pas in Germany."

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2022-07-18 14:52
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Sir Keir Starmer has rejected accusations that he used a visit to Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial for political campaigning purposes.

The Labour leader said the tour was part of his duty as a political leader to prevent such atrocities from happening again, after he was criticised for using the memorial as a backdrop for a promotional video that does not mention the Holocaust.

He said: “I think going to a memorial like that is very important for senior politicians.

“We have a duty not just to look back and remember and learn – of course we’ve got that duty.

“But we have the duty now to make sure that we never get into a situation where that could possibly happen again.

Massive faux pas

“So I think it’s very, very important that I went to that memorial.

“I’m very glad I did and I found it very, very moving.”

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James Jackson tweeted: “Labour’s Kier Starmer and David Lammy using the Holocaust memorial as a backdrop for their party political video This is a massive faux pas in Germany.”

Labour’s Kier Starmer and David Lammy using the Holocaust memorial as a backdrop for their party political video

This is a massive faux pas in Germany pic.twitter.com/8nNZlR00OL

— James Jackson (@derJamesJackson) July 17, 2022

“It is a matter of decency and long-established convention in Germany that you never stoop to using the Berlin Holocaust Memorial as some kind of a prop. But to incorporate the Memorial as the backdrop for a political clip that does not even mention the Holocaust is an insult.” https://t.co/qbJM2TNOlo pic.twitter.com/YCn294ftWs

— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) July 17, 2022

There has now been criticism of Keir Starmer and UK Labour by a German institute dedicated to fighting antisemitism https://t.co/aEITWQysdS

— James Jackson (@derJamesJackson) July 17, 2022

Had Corbyn done what Starmer did at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, the precise people defending Starmer today would be the exact same people who would be attacking Corbyn.

Ends.

— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) July 18, 2022

Lammy

During a two-day trip to the German capital, Sir Keir and shadow foreign secretary David Lammy took a guided tour of the Memorial To The Murdered Jews Of Europe.

They are seen walking between the structure’s concrete slabs in the video, which focuses on Labour’s hopes to draw inspiration from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrat Party.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism accused Sir Keir of “exploiting” a visit to the memorial for campaigning purposes, calling the move as “manipulative and repulsive”.

Joe Glasman, the organisation’s head of political and government investigations, said: “It is a matter of decency and long-established convention in Germany that you never stoop to using the Berlin Holocaust Memorial as some kind of a prop”.

“But to incorporate the Memorial as the backdrop for a political clip that does not even mention the Holocaust is an insult”.

Unfair

Jewish former Labour MP Ruth Smeeth defended Sir Keir, tweeting: “Keir Starmer has a proud record in fighting antisemitism.

He visited the Holocaust memorial and spoke about it at the time.

“This attack is not only wrong, but completely disingenuous and deeply unfair.

“And attempts to politicise something that simply shouldn’t be”.

Speaking to reporters at a central London bank on Monday, the Labour leader described it as an “extraordinary” memorial that “forces you to think and think again about all the murdered Jews in Europe”, as well as the “shared determination that we have as leaders now to make sure that that should never ever be repeated”.

It came after he met young entrepreneurs and business leaders taking part in a NatWest accelerator programme to discuss their challenges and required support from Government.

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I came to Germany with a clear message: Labour will fight and win the next general election on the economy. pic.twitter.com/k1MXwAQkxc

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) July 17, 2022

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