jewish-privilege:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

redmensch:

argyrocratie:

berniesrevolution:

Full thread here by @JackSmithIV 

also after the war

i love how he says “older jews” were against it but “british antifa” went against them, as if old jews were particularly against antifascism & as if the majority of british antifa fighting the BUF weren’t london jews ??? what the fuck

Seriously, way to gloss over the fact that the march was meant to terrorise the large Jewish population living in the East End and that the Battle of Cable Street was mostly orchestrated by a leftist Jewish collective known as the Jewish People’s Council. You can read more about them here.

I also think that you can’t paint Jewish resistance to fascism without also acknowledging that they were literally putting their and their families lives on the line. For Jews it’s always a question of whether to fight or to keep our heads down because history (yes before the Holocaust) has shown us time and time again that it can always get worse.

The original thread on twitter, doesn’t gloss over that by the way. I don’t know why the OP decided to include “older Jews” but none of the following (link to the full thread):