The Board of Deputies of British Jews, in a public statement, has expressed its "abhorrence" of the recent race riots between white gangs and Negro residents in London and other British cities. The statement underlined the relationship between these events and the propaganda of extremist groups.
"We are profoundly disturbed by the excesses as the result of racial antagonism, and we share the feeling of abhorrence at this manifestation of prejudice and intolerance fomented only too often by the propaganda of extremist groups anxious to exploit such tensions for political and ulterior ends," the Board statement declared.
It added that "the long and bitter experience of racial and religious hostility suffered by the Jews as a minority group is convincing proof of the truth that no minority is safe where the spirit of hatred prevails. "
LINK ANTI-NEGRO RIOTS IN BRITAIN WITH ANTI-JEWISH PROPAGANDA
In a forthright statement condemning the recent race rioters in London and other British cities, R.N. Carvalho, president of the Angle-Jewish Association, linked the anti-Negro demonstrations with anti-Jewish and anti-foreign propaganda of the Fascist Union Movement.
Addressing the AJC Council tonight, Mr. Carvalho voiced "horror" at the actions of white mobs and extended his concern and sympathy to the colored people who were targets of the recent riots. He noted that the Jews were "members of a religious minority who throughout its long history has known what it is to be attacked by hooligans and fanatics. "
In his analysis of the role of the fascist movement, Mr. Carvalho pointed out that the fascists are "campaigning to free England from alien groups, and lumps together Negroes, Cypriots, Jews and Americans. It would be the utmost foolishness, " he cautioned, "not to realize that anti-racial feeling is indivisible."
Meanwhile, it was reported today that the police are sifting evidence that the race riots were fomented by Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement and the League of Empire Loyalists, which in the past have demonstrated hostility to Jews.
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