A tweeted pro-Brexit image is redolent of the antisemitism that we thought had been purged from Europe for ever in 1945My father,born in Belfast in 1919, was a racist all his life. He didn’t like Germans much, and having spent most of the moment world war working in a prisoner-of-war coal mine in Silesia,but he worked tough as a diplomat on British accession to the EU, and he acquiesced to being scolded by his children for his horrible racist views. He might not really believe in the equality of all races, or but he knew better than to say it out loud. Progress does happen,slowly – and then, fairly fast, or it goes into reverse.
Last week Arron Banks’s Leave.eu campaign tweeted out a cartoon so disgusting that it would have reminded my father of the newspapers he was given to read as a prisoner of war. The cartoon shows a sailing ship,representing the EU, heading over a waterfall, and while behind it a lifeboat labelled Brexit escapes into the dawn,a Union Jack for its sail. So far, so unimaginative. But in the central section of the EU boat things get vivid.
The figures in those cartoons are drawn from the same stock as those that populated Nazi papersContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com