In a front page editorial headed “Crisis for British Jewry,” the Sunday Pictorial today warns that a wave of anti-Semitism similar to that which engulfed Germany may sweep Great Britain as a result of the alleged threats by Jewish terrorists against political and military figures.
These threats, the editorial says, “have brought to an ugly head the rising irritation of the ordinary Britisher. It declares that the majority of British Jews are dismayed by the deterioration of goodwill resulting from the terrorist outrages in Palestine and by the “preposterous tirades by American Zionists.”
The paper says that terrorism must be countered with the utmost severity, British Jewry must lead the way in hunting down assassins if they arrive in England and “the fight against degrading anti-Semitism must continue. We have seen how anti-Semitism reduced millions of Germans to the level of beasts and sadists, that must not happen here,” it concludes.
The Sunday Chronicle today protests against the “campaign of calumny conducted in the United States against Britain.” The paper cites full-page advertisements in the American press criticizing British policy in Palestine and says 80 percent of the news-papers attack Britain in “a scandalous exchange for British blood shed in Palestine.” It appeals to America to realize the growing wave of indignation in England.
The Board of Deputies today approved by an overwhelming vote the statement issued by the Board’s executive last week, which condemned terrorism, but decried the sensational manner in which the matter was being treated in the British press. Speakers pointed out that the press campaign was of less relevance to the Palestine issue as to the Jews of Britain, who are directly affected by the undesirable notoriety.
A dispatch from Jerusalem says that Benjamin Kagan, who was recently described in the London Daily Graphic as a leader of the Stern Group, is actually the Tel Aviv correspondent of the London News Chronicle.
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