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Screenshot: BBC London Monday 26th January 2026
February 2, 2026, 5:06 pm
Jews omitted from BBC London report on historic Battle of Cable Street
Latest in slew of incidents from national broadcaster, with Holocaust Memorial Day and Kindertransport news stories also wiping Jews from the narrative
By Michelle Rosenberg
Tracy-Ann Oberman as Shylock Credit: Marc Brenner
January 14, 2025, 1:15 pm
OPINION: Alas, Merchant of Venice 1936 feels like 2025
Tracy-Ann Oberman’s revival offers a haunting reflection of today’s hatred, as the play’s warnings against prejudice resonate with unnerving urgency in the aftermath of 7 October
By Jonathan Baz
Adam Lenson. Photo: Guy J. Sanders
September 5, 2024, 3:35 pm
Cancer diagnosis gives Cable Street director Adam Lenson a focus
The second run of the award-nominated show opens this week
By Darren Richman
February 28, 2024, 4:08 pm
New show about The Battle of Cable Street deserves a much wider audience
Rap, rock and romance bring this story to life with a rousing score and star performances
By Louisa Walters
Alfred Huberman, picture: Michelle Huberman.
February 24, 2023, 11:44 am
Second World War RAF hero dies just short of 100th birthday
Alfred Huberman flew a remarkable 38 bomber missions for the RAF and was instrumental in securing the Bomber Command Association memorial in London's Green Park.
By Michelle Rosenberg
AJEX National Chairman Dan Fox
February 20, 2023, 5:50 pm
OPINION: A timely reminder of why we have a duty to care
This weekend offers a chance to remember and honour those who perished in conflict and to stand against antisemitism and hate, writes AJEX National Chairman, Dan Fox
By Dan Fox
Football pundit and former footballer Alex Scott, pictured at Sandys Row Synagogue - the oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in London - discovers her Jewish roots in the new series of Who Do You Think You Are?
October 26, 2021, 3:59 pm
Alex Scott ‘proud’ of her Cable Street relative in Who Do You Think You Are?
The 37-year-old presenter discovers how her Jewish great-grandfather Philip Gittleson was caught up in the events of 4 October 1936
By Francine Wolfisz
A demonstrator is taken away under arrest by police officers after a mounted baton charge, in East London, on Oct. 4, 1936, to stop fighting between anti-fascists and Sir Oswald Mosley's blackshirts.
October 21, 2021, 4:49 pm
OPINION: Protests that protected Jews at Cable Street are in danger. We must stand firm
Esther Raffell of human rights group René Cassin urges the community to speak out against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in advance of its Lords Committee Stage
By Esther Raffell
Police clash with anti-fascists at the Battle of Cable Stree
October 18, 2021, 11:32 am
After Cable Street, victory made way for violence
Just days after the historic stand against fascism came the Mile End Pogrom – the worst incidence of anti-Jewish violence witnessed during the interwar period. We revisit this event, 85 years on
Mural on the former St George's Town Hall in Tower Hamlets, London, which commemorates the Battle of Cable Street. ( © Historic England)
October 2, 2021, 7:31 pm
Jeremy Corbyn to speak at rally to mark 85th anniversary of Cable Street
Politicians and union leaders to join rally on Sunday to mark the day hundreds of thousands of people blocked a march by British fascists through the Jewish East End.
Colin Jordan (Rory Kinnear) and Vivien Epstein (Agnes O'Casey). Credit: Ben Blackall
September 30, 2021, 1:29 pm
Ridley Road star Eddie Marsan: ‘Young people need to know what antisemitism is’
BBC thriller written by Sarah Solemani and based on the book of the same name by British author Jo Bloom explores the rise of far right fascism in Britain in the 1960s
Football pundit and former footballer Alex Scott, pictured at Sandys Row Synagogue - the oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in London - discovers her Jewish roots in the new series of Who Do You Think You Are?
September 14, 2021, 5:05 pm
Alex Scott taps into Jewish roots for BBC One’s Who Do You Think You Are?
Football pundit and former England player discovers Jewish ancestry on her mother’s side and learns that her great-grandfather faced down fascism in London’s East End in 1936
By Francine Wolfisz
A demonstrator is taken away under arrest by police officers after a mounted baton charge, in East London, on Oct. 4, 1936, to stop fighting between anti-fascists and Sir Oswald Mosley's blackshirts.
October 4, 2019, 1:55 pm
Sadiq Khan among those paying tribute to Cable Street veterans
London mayor praises those who 'courageously stood up to Mosley's fascists' 83 years ago today
By Mathilde Frot
Labour's former shadow chancellor John McDonnell Danny Lawson/PA Wire
November 30, 2018, 1:54 pm
John McDonnell evokes Cable Street in call to oppose Tommy Robinson
Shadow Chancellor calls for opposition to the former leader of the English Defence League, amid speculation he'll join a pro-Brexit march
Mural on the former St George's Town Hall in Tower Hamlets, London, which commemorates the Battle of Cable Street. ( © Historic England)
August 8, 2018, 12:00 pm
Cable Street in list of top 10 sites marking England’s ‘history of protest’
East End landmark where Jews faced-off against fascist thugs, is recognised in new high-profile campaign by Historic England
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