Holocaust Victims Call On Nigel Farage to Apologise Over Claimed Anti-Jewish Comments.

A coalition of Holocaust survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage tell the truth and apologise for alleged anti-Jewish comments he reportedly directed toward Jewish students during his youth.

The Reform UK leader has claimed he never targeted anyone with deliberate cruelty, proposing it may have been mere "playground banter".

"Being Shoah survivors, we understand the deadly peril of bigoted language – for we have seen where such words can lead," declared the survivors in a letter.

"We must be unambiguous: expressing admiration for Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not banter. Not in a playground. Not under any circumstances."

A Pointed Inquiry

The correspondence asks blunt questions to the party leader: "Are the claims accurate that you stated ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ and mimicked gas chambers? Did you target your fellow pupils to anti-Jewish taunts?"

Those Who Signed

The collective of 11 survivors contains individuals with devastating personal stories from the Holocaust.

• Hedi Argent, who was bereaved of 27 members of her family.
• Simon Winston, who was held in a ghetto before breaking out in 1942 and living through the rest of the war in hiding.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later moved to Bergen-Belsen, where she was rescued.

Additional names on the letter include Janine Webber, Edith Jayne, Helen Aronson, Ruth Barnett, John Fieldsend, Susan Pollack, Hanneke Dye and Agnes Kaposi.

Mounting Testimony

This action follows the characterisation of corroborating allegations by more than several dozen alumni and teachers as "fabricated nonsense" by a deputy leader.

After the story broke, more contemporaries have come forward. 28 people connected to the school now claim they observed racist or antisemitic behaviour by him.

One prominent account comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who has stated that a teenage Farage would sidle up to him and utter the phrases "Hitler had the correct idea" and "gas them", at times including a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas chambers.

Further Allegations

Additional alumni from minority ethnic backgrounds have likewise shared experiences with allegations of direct abuse.

• Cyrus Oshidar said he was branded a "Paki" and has labelled as rubbish the claim that such actions were not meant to hurt.
• Another individual with Asian roots described him as an "blatant racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was correct" as a form of "ethnic harassment".

The Ultimate Question

The final appeal puts forth an ultimate dilemma to Farage: "Should you continue to deny saying those words, do you mean that dozens of individuals are not telling the truth? If the words were spoken, now is the moment to take responsibility and say sorry."

"People who seek to govern our country should not ever divide people by background or belief. Hatred of Jews must never be normalised. This moment is about ethical duty. The decision is yours, Mr Farage."