The Board of Deputies of British Jews said today that ##o anti-Jewish outhreaks occurred yesterday in England, but it added that it is study##ng the situation carefully. Meanwhile, in Manchester a 17-year-old youth was sen##tenced to prison for six months for breaking a shop window and assaulting a police##en in Monday’s anti-Jewish outbreaks.In a Liverpool slaughter house workers decided today not to handle kosher ##at, as a protest against the hanging of the two British sergeants in Palestine by ##he Irgun. Several anti-Jewish demonstrators in Liverpool, including two women, were ##ined for participating in the anti-Semitic outrages, as were three men in Manchester. ##e Liverpool man received a month’s prison sentence.
The National Council of Christians and Jews today issued a statement approved ##y the Arhcbishops of Canterbury and Westminster and the Moderator of the Free Church ##deral Council condemning terrorism in Palestine and appealing to Englishmen not to ## their anger against the Jews in Britain who, the statement said, shared their ellow countrymen’s opposition to the extremists.
ANTI-JEWISH DEMONSTRATIONS FLOUT DEMOCRACY, ZIONIST ORGAN WARNS
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