When "votes for women" was a major political question in the United Kingdom there was resistance from conservative members of the Jewish community who worried that their involvement might prompt an anti-Semitic backlash.
[1] On 3 November 1912 Laura and Leonard Franklin formed the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage.
Other members included Edith Ayrton,[3] Inez Bensusan, Nina Salaman,[4] Hugh Franklin, Alice Model,[3] Romana Goodman,[3] Lily Montagu and her sister Henrietta.
[2] Henrietta achieved wider acceptance and became President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in 1916.
Women protesters were ejected from synagogues and they were labelled as "blackguards in bonnets" by the conservative Jewish community.