Michael Fidler
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Michael M. Fidler (10 February 1916 – 5 September 1989) was a British Conservative Party politician.[1]
Fidler was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury and Radcliffe] from 1970 until the October 1974 general election,[1] when he lost his seat to Labour's Frank White.
In the 1974 election, Fidler was targeted by the neo-nazi British Movement.[2][3]
Fidler was also the first Jewish mayor in Prestwich.
Active in Zionist politics for many years, he was president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1967 until 1973. He founded the lobby group Conservative Friends of Israel. He was President of the Revisionist General Zionists of Great Britain in the 1980s.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alderman, Geoffrey Modern British Jewry Clarendon Press 1992. Oxford page 375 viaInternet Archive
- ↑ Macklin, Graham Failed Führers: A History of Britain's Extreme Right 2020 Routledge.
- ↑ Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement: Hitler's Echo. 15 December 2016. Bloomsbury Publishing . ISBN 978-1-4725-0906-2.
