HOSTILITY TO JEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22824, 7 March 1936, Page 14

HOSTILITY TO JEWS

INSTANCES IN 'EAST END

LABOUR MEMBER'S COMPLAINT

LONDON, Mark 5. (Received March 6, at 9 p.m.). Instances of persecution of Jews in the East End of London by Fascists were quoted by Mr Herbert Morrison (Lab.) in the House of Commons. He said that a Blackshirt who was a professional boxer struck a Jew. Fascists threatened a Jewish woman that her millinery shop would be burnt down and called her " a dirty Jewish cow." They pasted labels on houses and shops with the inscriptions "Get back to the Ghetto," and "Perish Judah." A leaflet issued by the Imperial Fascist League said there were 3,000,000 Jews in Britain, almost the same number as the British unemployed. This was incitement similar to that on which the Nazi Government based the revolution in 1933. Sir John Simon confessed he was not satisfied with the situation in the East End and it had been decided to detail extra police. It was not believed that there was any widespread hostility to Jews but a disquieting movement was developing in certain quarters in London.