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LONDON, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- A British judge ruled Thursday that London Mayor Ken Livingstone did not bring his office into disrepute when he compared a Jewish reporter to a Nazi guard.
Justice Andrew Collins reversed the findings of the Adjudication Panel for England, The Guardian reported. Two weeks ago, Collins lifted Livingstone's two-week suspension.
After the judge gave his decision, Livingstone said his remarks to Oliver Finegold, a reporter for the London Evening Standard, were intentionally offensive but not anti-Semitic.
"The judge described as 'entirely appropriate' my remark that the journalist's behavior disfigures journalism in pursuing me down the street, after a reception for a gay politician, barking questions when I had said I did not wish to be interviewed," Livingstone said.
Livingstone said the Daily Mail Group, which owns the Evening Standard, had been harassing him and his family for years.
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