In an op-Ed published in The British Guardian newspaper, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, called Israeli Prime Minister General Ariel Sharon a “war criminal” and accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing,” saying Sharon should be imprisoned for the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Beirut. He also accused Israel of demonizing Muslims. In the Guardian piece, Livingstone rejected accusations of anti-Semitism arising from his confrontation two weeks ago with a Jewish newspaper reporter he likened to a German concentration camp guard. He accused Israel of spreading misinformation about the scale of anti-Semitism in Europe, and seeking to silence critics by calling them anti-Semitic. Livingstone wrote, “The reality is that the great bulk of racist attacks in Europe today are on black people, Asians and Muslims. They are the primary targets of the extreme right.”