While the question always at the back of my mind is "would they hide you from the Nazis?" Richard Desmond's question is "are you looking forward to being owned by Nazis?" although racism is racism, whatever its hue.
But check this in the Guardian piece on the same subject (it's in the media guardian. so you have to sign in, sorry):
"Mr Howard, the son of Romanian immigrants and whose grandmother died in a Nazi concentration camp, needs no reminding of the sensitivity of mockery involving the Third Reich."
Putting aside the issue of Howard constantly being referred to as a Jew (albeit in a sideswipeish way, as above), I think there's a one sentence summary of everyone, out there. "Ali G, Cambridge graduate Sasha Baron Cohen, whose parents live in a prosperous North London suburb". There are non-Jewish ones as well, of course, but I'm wired-sensitive to notice these first.
Has Richard Desmond lost his marbles? Very probably. Does the Guardian constantly need to refer to Michael Howard's Jewish/immigrant past? Probably not. Michael Portillo's the son of Spanish immigrants, I think, and you hardly ever see him described thus.
OK, me and my anti-semite-dar are going to work now.
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