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TONY CONWAY explains why the Communist Party will hold a series of events to mark ‘One Day,’ as part of its campaign to combat anti-semitism, Holocaust denial and historical revisionism
Suitcases belonging to victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp

ANTI-SEMITISM has been around for centuries. The Edict of Expulsion, a royal decree issued by Edward I on 18 July 1290 sought the expulsion of all Jews from England, by no later than November 1 of that same year.

This edict remained in place throughout the Middle Ages and was a culmination of over 200 years of anti-semitism.

Medieval England was particularly anti-Jewish, with many images and tropes which exist today arising from that period.

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