Jewish lawyer sacked
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-10-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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BRITAIN'S second-largest sacked the chief of its legal property company, MEPC department because he is Jewish.
That was the finding of an industrial tribunal earlier this month. It seems the sacking of Anthony Simmons was linked to MEPC's negotiations for a loan from the oil-rich, reactionary Arab statelet of Kuwait.
The tribunal reported: "We could not speculate on whether Arab pressure induced MEPC to dismiss Mi' Simmons because he was a Jew, or whether this was a voluntary boycott - a way of getting rid of the only Jewish officer of the company before ... the transaction."
Socialists should be unreserved in our condemnation of this discrimination. That Anthony Simmons is a member of the wealthy classes is beside the point. The struggle against Zionism - against a state which makes racial discrmination its basic principle - must be combined with absolute. opposition to all anti-Jewish prejudice or discrimination.
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