Original sentence: The statement was condemned as antisemitic by Holocaust survivors and intellectuals.While visiting the West Bank city of Ramallah in 2002 he compared the city, which was being blockaded at the time by Israel, to the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald
Edited sentence: While visiting the Palestinian city of Ramallah in 2002 he expressed views that the Israeli blockade reminded him of Nazi death camps, comments which were seen as controversial and deemed antisemitic by Holocaust survivors and intellectuals