Jewish organizations and the Jewish community generally welcomed the introduced of the new Race Relations Bill in Parliament last night as a matter of principle although the proposed legislation hardly affects the Jewish community or affords it protection against race hatred. The bill, which is assured of passage, supplements the 1965 Race Relations Act which dealt with racial discrimination in public places.
Such anti-Jewish discrimination as exists in England is of a social nature and it would not be likely that a British Jew would invoke the provisions of the proposed new legislation to sue a golf club or country club which blackballed his membership application.
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