Left-wing activists are "jealous" of the Holocaust and want to replace it with slavery, a leading historian has said. In a speech to the National Conservatism conference in London, David Starkey claimed that groups such as Black Lives Matter were attempting to destroy "white culture" and "do exactly what was done to German culture because of Nazism and the Holocaust".
He said: "The determination is to replace the Holocaust with slavery. In other words, this is why Jews are under such attack from the left, there's jealousy, fundamentally. There is jealousy of the moral primacy of the Holocaust and a determination to replace it with slavery."
The historian's comments brought swift condemnation, with Daniel Sugarman, public affairs director at the Board of Deputies of British Jews, tweeting that they were "pathetic attempts to drive a wedge between communities" that "will not work".
