ABSTRACT
The emotive and intensely descriptive media coverage fuelled the public outrage that had been growing since the beginning of the Palestinian crisis. A wooden synagogue was burnt to the ground in Glasgow, and the Manchester Guardian reported that in Liverpool, ‘over a hundred windows belonging to Jewish owners were shattered’. It is clear that at least some of the rioters were active members of fascist organisations such as the Independent Nationalists. The British People’s Party, another prewar fascist party seeking revival in the immediate postwar period, also attempted to make hay out of the Palestinian crisis. The most fanatical fascists of the immediate postwar period gathered around the notorious prewar fascist Arnold Leese. Unsurprisingly, the rebirth of public fascism and open antisemitism was opposed vociferously by anti-fascists.
