Alien Act 1905 came about from anti-semitism among Tory and Liberal politicians and also much of it from workers , some fascists organisations but also the TUC itself and Clarion the socialist newspaper.

Alien act

1905 Alien act limiting all immigration but aimed at Jewish refugees coming to Britain fleeing from eastern Europe

1905-1946 This was to remain in force till after www2 . Its limits on Jewish immigration were made even more severe during the ww2 war, during the holocaust

US, very much limited all immigration into US after the crash in 1921 This severely limited Jewish emigration there too. This too stayed till after ww2.

Immigration Controls—The Acid Test
The Aliens Act of 1905 is almost entirely forgotten today by the Jewish community and by socialists. It was the natural corollary to the anti-Jewish ideology described above, namely the successful demand for immigration control on Jews. The Act was passed by a Tory government with the full support of its leadership and of the Tory Party. It was enforced by a Liberal government. However, in many ways it was the result of nearly twenty years of agitation by the English working class.

This agitation took two main forms. Firstly, there was the grassroots proto-fascist organisation in London's East End—the British Brothers League. Between its inception in 1901 and its victory in 1905, the Brothers organised constant demonstrations and rallies through the East End against Jewish immigration.

Secondly, there was the organised labour movement itself. From 1892, the T.U.C. was formally committed to a resolution excluding Jews. This was not a passive 'paper' position, indeed the issue of immigration control was included in a list of questions to be asked of all Parliamentary candidates, which was compiled by a special conference of the T. U. C. in 1895 (Manchester Evening News, 11.7.1895). Indeed, the T.U.C. sent a delegation to the Home Secretary demanding control (Times, 6.2.1896).

The attitude of most of the emergent socialist organisations to all of this, varied from agreement to inconsistency. For instance, The Clarion came out eventually for total exclusion. In an article just after the Act became law, The Clarion stated that Jewish immigrants were:

"a poison injected into the national veins", they were the "unsavoury children of the ghetto", their numbers were "appalling" and their attitudes "unclean" (22.6.1906).

The only organised trade union opposition which included British trade unionists, was when Jewish workers took the initiative.

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Zionism argued throughout that a Jewish Homeland (meaning state) was the answer to European anti semitism. It also made the point of not arguing for justice for Jewish immigrant communities in Europe but instead for Jewish emigration to the Jewish homeland in Palestine. . Its adherents often worked with anti-semites in Britain and elsewhere agreeing with them that countries have a limited absorption rate for Jewish immgration & settlement in European states. lenni brenner

weizman p4 natural phenomena whever the quantity of jews - saturation point -not the slubility of the jews but the solvent power of that country.

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