54 No. 67 JUSTICE immigrants from Jamaica and Pakistan, immigrating to Britain. While antisemitism certainly had not disappeared, tangible and visible hatred of the other focused on these new immigrants – a welcome target for those interested in promoting racial and religious bigotry. In 1958, race riots broke out in London and a “white youth”culture emerged which Colin Jordan and his followers sought to exploit. Haters, Baiters and Would-Be Dictators, Beamish’s first full-length political book, is hardly a major work, nor was Henry Hamilton Beamish a major figure in the history of right-wing politics in Britain or elsewhere. Nonetheless, the volume provides readers with valuable sources and citations for those interested in studying the history of antisemitism in interwar Britain. n Leonard Weinberg is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) and an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada.
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