Despite official and semi-official statements asserting that last week’s wave of anti-Semitic attacks were spontaneous demonstrations against the action of extremists in Palestine, evidence continue to come to the fore that the riots were backed by organized pro-fascists.
The newspaper Reynolds News today cites among other evidence an article in the provincial Lancashire newspaper “Morcambe Visitor” which called for violence as the “only way to bring them (the Jews) to a sense of responsibility to the country in which they live.” A number of members of parliament have indicated that they will demand an investigation of the Morcambe paper’s statement which, they insist, is an incitement to violence.
Police here are investigating an attack on an 80-year-old Jew, Lowis Jacobs, warden of a synagogue in the Stepney district, who suffered head injuries when he was beaten with a club by an unidentified man who was hiding in the temple.
In a north London suburb a synagogue escaped destruction when a fire set inside it burned out without causing damage. Police tonight broke up a meeting of the anti-Semitic British League of Ex-Servicemen when the audience became angry.
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