London library found hosting bishop who claimed only 200,000 Jews died during Holocaust

A London library has been found hosting a bishop who previously claimed that only 200,000 Jews died during Holocaust. 

Bishop Richard Williamson has a reported history of Holocaust denial which has seen him convicted of Holocaust denial in Germany.

Among various claims surrounding Jewish people and the Holocaust, he has previously said that he believes that “the historical evidence is hugely against six million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers,” and that “there were no gas chambers.”

It has now been reported that Bishop Williamson has been delivering sermons about Jewish people in South London’s Earlsfield Library, during which he allegedly accused Jewish people of killing Jesus and conspiring to undermine the Catholic Church.

The accusation of “Deicide” – the belief that the Jews are collectively responsible for the death of Jesus Christ – is part of the classic repertoire of antisemitism, and has led to innumerable acts of violence against and mendacious claims about Jews for centuries. 

It was also reported that he blamed Jewish people for the orchestration of the COVID-19 pandemic and that after one of the services, attendants discussed the far-right group Patriotic Alternative.

Upon being informed of the bishop’s reported sentiments by the JC, the Library labelled them “disgraceful and unacceptable” and said: “We have terminated all the group’s bookings with immediate effect.”