Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ugliest Aspect. At Eccles, in Lancashire, one Jack Piggott drew six months' imprisonment for smashing a Jewish-owned shop window and leading a crowd of 700, some of whom shouted what few Britons had ever been expected to shout: "Hitler was right." At Holyhead, a laborer was fined for smashing the windows of two Jewish shops. In London, two women arrested for pitching bricks through Oxford Street windows said: "We did it because the owner is a Jew." In Wales, signs appeared on a school wall reading: "Jewish murderers" and "Hitler was right." At Kingstanding, near Birmingham, hooligans stole...
...race concentrations did not aplly. London, with two-thirds of all Britain's 385,000 Jews, had a relatively mild anti-Semitic seizure. Leeds, with the highest proportionate concentration of Jews among British cities, heard some muttering but saw no violence. Liverpool, with a small, old, well-integrated Jewish group, had four nights of window smashing, synagogue burning and looting to a refrain of anti-Jewish slogans. There, at least 100 shop windows were broken, mostly by adolescents; sometimes crowds as large as 2,000 looked on, did nothing except to give an occasional cheer. This passive approval...
Three days before, a quiet group of men had quietly laid a wreath at Whitehall's Cenotaph, Britain's monument to valorous Britons. It was inscribed:' "In memory of Sergeant Martin and Sergeant Paice, who died doing their duty in Palestine, July 30, 1947. From their Jewish ex-service comrades of the British forces." And it was signed with many names. Among them: Major Sir Jack Benn Brunei Cohen, who lost both legs in World War I; Wing Commander Lionel Cohen, who won the D.F.C. at the age of 68 in 1944, after 45 R.A.F. operational flights...
...incite violence against Jews and Negroes. One need not call up Holmes' now hackneyed, but still valid warning against granting free speech to him who would shout fire in a crowded theatre. The last time Smith spoke in Boston, his visit was followed by the beatings of young Jewish boys in Dorchester and several attacks on Negroes. To quote from the leaflet circulated by the Boston Youth Council: "We believe in free speech, but we will not permit the lecture platform to be used as a center for pogroms and lynchings." We tried long and hard to stop Smith through...
...found. And there, in a clearing heavy with the stench of death, the searchers found them. Their bloodied, blackened bodies swung to & fro from eucalyptus trees. Their shirts were wrapped around their heads. Through their clothes and flesh were pinned Irgun "communiqués" accusing the sergeants of "anti-Jewish crimes." They had died slowly, by clumsy strangulation...