Martin Gilbert

Churchill was ‘too fond of the Jews’

It’s a nonsense to allege that the war leader was anti-Semitic

issue 17 March 2007

In a press release announcing a book by Richard Toye on Churchill and Lloyd George, Cambridge University Press put its main emphasis on the discovery of a previously unknown article written by Winston Churchill in 1937, containing considerable anti-Semitic imagery.

In fact, not one word of this article was written by Churchill.

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