The seven-week-old Yellow Star movement opposing anti-Semitism, fascism and other racist movements, decided at a rally here today to launch a nationwide campaign for signatures to petition Parliament to enact legislation making public incitement to race hatred and discrimination an offense.
The resolution, which will be submitted to Home Secretary Henry Brooke, declares that incitement to hatred between racial groups “leads to humiliation and violence, loss of liberty and even life.”
The Yellow Star organization, whose name is derived from the emblem which Jews were required to wear under the Nazis, was established in East London this summer by the Rev. William Sargent who witnessed from a nearby church a meeting in Trafalgar Square sponsored by Colin Jordan’s National Socialist movement.
As part of the campaign for anti-racist legislation, the Yellow Star movement is seeking permission to hold a meeting in Trafalgar Square September 1 under the slogan: “Racial Hate–No; Human Brotherhood–Yes.”
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