PHIL Riley, Secretary of Blackburn Labour Party (Letters, February 24) avoided any mention of the main point of my previous remarks - which was the hypocrisy of the Labour leaders talking of peace by way of establishing a Holocaust Day, when only a short time ago Britain, as a member of NATO, carried out six weeks of bombing raids against the Serbs.

Instead, Mr Riley chose to bring up the issue of the Nazis and Jews in the last war, although there wasn't any mention of them in my letter.

His motive seems to have been to obscure my views on Labour's hypocrisy and to try and label me as anti-semitic, by saying that I had a problem with the Holocaust Day and teaching of Holocaust history.

This is not so. I haven't a problem with either as long as the true facts are adhered to, and not wartime propaganda.

I say again, Mr Riley, it is war that leads to holocausts, and there have been several.

J PILKINGTON, Elm Street, Blackburn.

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