[Ads-l] Antedating of "Antifa"

[dave@wilton.net]

Here's a somewhat earlier reference to the Palestine Antifa:
 
“Jewish Center Group Doings.” Jersey Journal (Jersey City, New Jersey), 26 February 1937, 3/1–2. Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers.
 
"The speaker at the Peace Institute on Wednesday will be Charles B. Sherman, national American secretary of Antifa, Palestinian Anti-Fascist organization of Palestine working for Arab-Jewish solidarity. Messages will be read from Morris Erem, Jew, and Nejib Yussuf, Arab, an Antifa delegation recently arrived in this country. Antifa is now organizing branches in various countries."
 
 
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Great work, Fred and Ben. Here is a different citation for "Antifa" in
1937. This is not an antedating, but it indicates that "antifa" may
have been constructed from "anti-fascist" on multiple occasions.

Date: April 20, 1937
Newspaper: The Worker: Australia's Pioneer Co-operative Labor Journal
Newspaper Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Article: "ANTIFA": A Palestine Anti-Fascist Organisation
Quote Page 27, Column 1
Database: Newspapers.com

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-worker-monthly-journal-of-the-assoc/182693935/

[Begin excerpt]
... it is inspiring to learn that an anti-Fascist organisation
comprising Arabs and Jews has been set up in that country. This body,
which is called Antifa, declares that there must be peaceful relations
between Arabs and Jews, that there is room in Palestine for both
peoples ...
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 6:38 AM Shapiro, Fred
<00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> Impressive antedating, Ben !
>
> Fred Shapiro

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