A campaign against Jewish ritual slaughter (Shechita) will be revived soon in Britain, it was predicted today by Sir Robert Gower, chairman, and Arthur Moss, secretary, of the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. They said that the introduction of casting pens in all slaughter houses on January 1 had not “calmed down the Shechita opponents.”
Earlier, the Society rejected a demand of the Council of Christians and Jews to withdraw a leaflet depicting Jewish ritual slaughter methods which denounces Shechita as a “Barbarous method.” Sir Robert declared that although the Society refuses to withdraw the leaflet, “we are prepared to meet our critics and substantiate the leaflet.”
The National Council for Civil Liberties this week-end adopted at its annual meeting a resolution introduced by the Workmen’s Circle voicing concern at the increase of Fascist and anti-Semitic activities in northeast London. The resolution calls on the British Government to make the “dissemination of anti-Semitism and the preaching of racial hatred illegal” and to afford “adequate police protection to citizens in areas concerned as well as at public meetings.”
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