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Controversial rabbi Yosef Mizrachi may be blocked from entering Britain ahead of speaking tour

Minister said autism and Down’s syndrome are punishments for the sins of a past life, and that Jews helped to bring about the Holocaust by 'assimilating'

March 13, 2019 12:48
Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi is expected to land in the UK on Wednesday
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A controversial rabbi who said autism and Down’s Syndrome are punishments for the sins of a past life may be blocked from entering the UK on Wednesday.

Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, from New York, will travel to Britain for a series of scheduled appearances and lectures.

Media attention on his speaking tour in recent weeks has exposed Rabbi Mizrachi’s controversial decrees – including that Ashkenazi Jews helped to bring about the Holocaust by “assimilating”.

In December 2015, he also suggested the possibility that only a million Jews perished in the Holocaust, because “80 percent of the Jewish people were assimilated and intermarried with non-Jews”.