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MSM: Four council staff sacked over email which compared Holocaust to Israeli occupation of Palestine
Posted by sakerfa on July 8, 2009
(DailyMail) – Four council workers have been sacked for sending a racist email to colleagues comparing Nazi death camps to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
It is believed those involved brought memory sticks containing the anti-Semitic material in to work to bypass the Lancashire County Council’s security system.
Authority bosses deemed the ‘highly inappropriate’ content to be a sacking offence after a three-month investigation, which saw a total of 14 staff suspended.
Five others received formal written warnings and a further five have since returned to work.
The offensive email was only discovered after one of those involved was off work and a colleague accessed his computer.
Titled ‘Holocaust Survivors’, it contained pictures of 1930s and 1940s Germany and compared them to modern-day images of the Gaza conflict.
The introduction to the email reads: ‘The grandchildren of Holocaust survivors from World War II are doing to the Palestinians exactly what was done to them by Nazi Germany.’
Blackburn with Darwen councillor Salim Mulla also forwarded the email to colleagues, but no disciplinary action was taken against himGraphic photographs of people dying in Germany were alongside pictures of people killed in Palestine.
The email is said to urge the reader to forward the message on to ’show the world the face of this murderous state’.
The sacked staff worked in the adult and community services and children and young people departments at Lancashire County Council.
Council chief executive Ged Fitzgerald said: ‘After a full investigation, we have taken disciplinary action against a number of staff found to have sent and received highly inappropriate emails.
‘Four people have been dismissed with a further five staff receiving formal written warnings.’
He added: ‘For some less serious cases, the staff involved have returned to work and any necessary action will be handled by their managers.
‘This has been an unfortunate incident, but an isolated one. By far the majority of our staff use email appropriately and are working hard to deliver a good service to everyone in Lancashire.’
Blackburn with Darwen councillor Salim Mulla also sent out the email to 63 colleagues, but no disciplinary action was taken against him.
He sent it in January, not believing it was offensive.
Councillor Mulla, the senior vice chairman of Lancashire Council of Mosques, said: ‘I shared it with my colleagues. I send a lot of emails.
‘A lot of people didn’t fully understand what was going on. I felt at the time, when the war was taking place, that it was important there were discussions within the council.
‘It’s something I feel very strongly about and I wanted to share it with the elected members. I speak my mind – some people like it, some people do not.
‘I have supported Holocaust Memorial Day every single year and I will continue to do that.
‘But if there are other similar atrocities going on, not just in Gaza, I will say they are not acceptable.’
Source: Daily Mail Co UK
Duncan said
THE SOONER ISRAEL IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE THE BETTER, THEY ARE GUILTY OF GENOCIDE AND IT SHOULD BE SCREAMED FROM EVERY ROOFTOP, THE ADL AND AIPAC SHOULD BE BANNED AND PALESTINE GIVEN BACK TO THE INDEGENOUS PEOPLES, MAKES ME SICK TO MY STOMACH AND BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES.
ann said
The concept of war is asinine!
We do not need to fight each other for anything, we are all one !
until there is unity on a global scale the drack’s will continue to be in control of this planet.
wake up!
Bruce Eggum said
Israel is violating International Law repeatedly. Human rights and humans are dismissed. Israel is committing Holocaustic practices denying even necessary health, water and food.
laudyms said
Why is Israel not held to account for violations of International Law and war crimes? Their continuing violence against civilians and their depraved indifference to the plight of Palestinians makes a mockery of any claims to victimhood they assert. The behavior of Israel in Gaza is very similar to what the Nazi’s did in Poland- ghettoizing a whole people, preventing the provision of humanitarian supplies, fresh water and medical care. Will we wait until full-scale genocide takes place?
thenonconformer said
1.Jews are not perfect
http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/taiwanization-or-borking/