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    He definitely wasn't a fan of Jews

    A few Churchill quotes about Jews from his Wikipedia page:

    "Some people like the Jews and some do not, but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most remarkable race that has ever appeared in the world."

    Why is your chief so violent about the Jews?... what is the sense of being against a man simply because of his birth? How can any man help how he is born?

    (Said to Hitler's confidante Ernst Hanfstaengl when Hitler refused to meet him in Munich in 1932).

    He was definitely complex and didn't seem to like Indians much:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Winston_Churchill#India

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    It was a very long time ago now, so I may have misremembered, but when I was studying modern antisemitism I'm sure I read references to his speeches in the HoC on the Jewish Question. IIRC his views weren't hugely out of step with others around that time, but they weren't exactly progressive.

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    I can believe your memory isn't wrong, but he also said those things. As people have said, complex. At least he has the defence of it being a different time, unlike Priti!

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