Fighting Fascists and Oswald Mosley // A Very British History // The Jews of Leeds // Part 4

[@amandawhiteley6737]

Fascinating film.

[@grannythebuilder395]

My grandmother was one of the antifascists in Leeds that day. She told us about it years later. We remain very proud of her.

[@denecroxford2475]

Although Mosley and the Black Shirts were active in the 30s, it has to be remembered that Britain overwhelming welcomed refugees fleeing persecution in continental Europe. Even before WW2, Jews came to Britain to escape European antisemitism. The pre-war refugees from Germany were drawn largely from the Jewish middle classes and were well educated, cultured and often with professional qualifications or experience. They largely preserved their German-language culture and their ‘continental’ identity, while integrating broadly successfully into British society. The skills, enterprise and education that they brought with them ensured that they contributed significantly to British life. After the war most took British nationality and settled down to build new lives for themselves and their families.

[@Psalm91-BelieveIt]

Ancient Pharaoh's have come and gone, Hitler's and Mosley's have come and gone, dictators in the middle-east have come and gone, but the Jewish nation survives! God Bless all His people in Leeds today, and wherever else they are today in the UK and beyond! 🙏

[@JohnCox-ut3cv]

The greatest threat to Jewish people around the world today is the fascist and apartheid state of Israel. Jewish people need to come together to condemn Zionism and the carnage in the Middle East.

[@paulneedham9885]

God is the problem

[@robertjsmith]

Jews ,you gotta love the sense of humour

[@mikefraser4513]

In Jerusalem, a journalist hears about a very old Jewish man who has been going to the Wailing Wall twice a day to pray for a long, long time. So she goes to see him. She goes to the Wailing Wall and there he is! She watches him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turns around, she asks him for an interview. ‘Sir, how long have you been coming to the Wall and praying?’ ‘I've been coming since 1967’ ‘57 years! That's amazing! And what do you pray for?’ ‘I pray for peace. I pray for all the hate to stop, and I pray for all our children to grow up in safety and friendship’ ‘How do you feel after doing this for more than 50 years?’ ‘Like I'm talking to a wall"

[@robertjsmith]

@@mikefraser4513 tragic but funny,I get the feeling from the humour,they don’t take themselves to seriously.

[@jimpearson399]

Moseley was a hero, and a patriot. Above all, he was objectively correct.

[@zukosmom3780]

Still so much hate for Jews in the comments. I don't get it

[@Elpulgon-kw5pl]

As usual on our human condition, ahead of the times, the pursued turns up on the persecutor

[@Elpulgon-kw5pl]

As usual in our human condition, ahead of the times, the pursued turns up in an irrational and without compassion persecutor as happens now from the Israeli government that with the local population support in more than 90%, is in the process of exterminating the Palestinian people. This shows the old and lost Jewish people who disappeared with the wrong EEUU empowerment.

[@johnfinbarr1160]

No Pasaran

[@eyup121]

So Mosley had no quarrel with Jews until Jews came looking for a fight- got it.

[@Johnny-sj9sj]

@@eyup121 WTF are you on about? Would you, for example, welcome in those with Jack boots who are set on the destruction of a demographic just because of their religion?

[@davidpollard1139]

Absolutely correct, he visited Mussolini and saw how well he got on with the Jews and thought he could get on with British Jews if he formed a fascist party but they turned against him because many supported communism, however he did have some Jewish supporters.

[@andrewrobinson2565]

Most of Mosley's supporters were looking for a fight (Mosley having little control) but they got beaten in Cable Street 😊.

[@davidpollard1139]

@@andrewrobinson2565 yes thousands of marches all over the UK and the communists managed to stop one ! The irony is that the battle of Cable Street in 1936 gave him free publicity and increased the votes for him in the LCC elections the following year.

[@andrewrobinson2565]

@@davidpollard1139 Thousands? Count them. A sad shell of a man after internment. Good riddance to his delusions of grandeur and the yobs of then and today. 😁

[@EnglandVersus]

*PROPAGANDA AGAINST THE ENGLISH ALERT*

[@hadror13]

How so

[@EnglandVersus]

@hadror13 Because they make it sound like native English people that want to defend their native English culture are wrong and Jews are innocent victims.

[@EileenHall-j9f]

What’s with the capital letters? Do you realise how moronic you appear. Where and when were you educated?

[@Johnny-sj9sj]

I am culturally Christian English/British and proud of it, but WTF are you on about? You're giving us 🇬🇧 a bad name.

[@Johnny-sj9sj]

@@EnglandVersus 'Eh? Personally, I very much do want to preserve our British cultural identity, but yes, I do consider Jews to be innocent victims. 🇬🇧

[@catzkeet4860]

Oh grow up

[@satiricgames2129]

😂😂😂😂😂oink oink pig