Former London mayor Ken Livingstone has described his comments about Nazi leader Adolf Hitler supporting Zionism as "factual", saying it's the equivalent of "1+1=2".
Speaking at the Oxford Union on Wednesday evening, Mr Livingstone refused to apologise and instead blamed "embittered MPs" for the furore.
"I think this has been largely manufactured by people trying to undermine (Labour leader) Jeremy Corbyn," he said.
"If someone says something anti-Semitic they will be expelled but you can't expel someone for telling the truth."
Mr Livingstone has been suspended from the Labour party and branded a "Nazi apologist" by some MPs within the party after he gave a radio interview in which he said Hitler, who sent millions of Jews to their deaths during the Second World War, had previously supported establishing a Jewish homeland.
When asked by the union's president Robert Harris if he could understand why the comments provoked such outrage, Mr Livingstone replied: "I put all of this in my autobiography five years ago and no one said anything then.
"Embittered MPs (think) here we can start screaming at Ken Livingstone, 'Nazi apologist' and so on, and create all this stuff about anti-Semitism.
"When I have gone through lots of people saying I should apologise to this reporter or apologise for saying Hitler was a supporter of Zionism... I have never apologised."
Labour has been plagued by allegations of anti-Semitism in recent months, prompting officials to suspend several party members pending further investigations.
Mr Corbyn described the suspensions as a "very small number of cases" and denied the party was anti-Semitic.
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