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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-11493124
Anti-Israel Activist Acquittal Judge Reprimanded
(BBC News) Judge George Bathurst-Norman, who compared Israel to the Nazi regime in the Hove Crown Court trial of seven activists who were cleared of plotting to damage a Brighton weapons factory, has been formally reprimanded. Jewish groups said his comments were offensive, one-sided and unbalanced. An investigation by the Office for Judicial Complaints found that "a number of these observations did not arise directly from the evidence at trial and could be seen as an expression of the judge's personal views on a political question. This was an error." The judge was formally reprimanded.