“No living Jews” in the East End
Senior Jewish figures today united in condemning recent claims that some Jews were still happily living in the East End of London, and pledged to slap gagging orders on those East Enders claiming Jewish heritage.
At a £50-per-head launch party for a series of events commemorating 350 years since the readmittance of Jews to Britain , held at the palatial London Jewish Cultural Centre in Golders Green, a senior Jewish historian claimed “Unfortunately, all Jews are now too wealthy to require affordable housing in inner city areas. This, combined with the deaths of all those Jews that resisted forced resettlement to Hendon in recent years, means that we now estimate the population of Jews in the boroughs of Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham to be zero”
The need for removal of Jews from the East End after the Second World War was a result of the threat posed by the building of illegal Muslim settlements on Brick Lane, E1. Acknowledging the inability of Jewish people to live surrounded by other ethnic groups, especially those in lower income bands, the flight to the Northern suburbs began. As The Board of Deputies said at the time, “There is a serious risk that pressure would be put upon us to contribute to charitable organisations that do not solely benefit Jews. That tzedakah 10% is not easy to part with, and it would compromise our Jewishness to have to give it to mixed-faith communities.”
A Jewish presence will be maintained in a series of heritage walks through Whitechapel, during which points of notable Jewish death will be toured. Assurances have been made that those non-Jews responsible for the upkeep of Jewish cemeteries and shuls in the area will be harangued and insulted at various points on the journey. Former MP for the area Oona King has also promised to deliver all mournful platitudes necessary on key dates.
Although a large presence of Ultra-Orthodox Jews has been spotted in Stoke Newington, a spokesman for United Synagogues assured the community in a Shabbat handout that they were “Too Frum”, “Scary” and “are self-obsessed and refuse to acknowledge other communities”. The editor of the US bulletin was challenged with a reported sighting of young Jewish artists gathered in a bar on Commercial Street, to which he admitted exclusively to us “We might briefly mention them in the JC if they do something that gets in the Daily Mail and is about a Jewish topic.”
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