Prejudice is ‘real danger’ warns Holocaust envoy

Sir Andrew Burns spoke on Holocaust Memorial Day, warning that a failure to speak out could lead to problems that were “damaging and difficult to resist”.

“Our press and media constantly remind us that discrimination and prejudice is still a depressingly frequent feature of our contemporary society,” he said.

“History tells us that if we do not stand firm against prejudice in small ways, in everyday life, then there is a real danger that it will grow into something much more damaging and difficult to resist.

“We must pray that we never again face the horrors of the treatment meted out persecuted groups during the Holocaust.”