Veil Maker: Antisemites Trying To Mask Hate The Only Reason Business Afloat

“They appear to believe that the veil prevents all and sundry from perceiving them as the antisemites they are.”

London, December 3 – One of the few remaining manufacturers of formal garments to cover part of the wearer’s head, out of modesty, privacy, or aloof dignity, attributes his enterprise’s survival to anti-Zionists seeking to conceal the Judaeophobia that in fact animates their politics.

Popinjay Fabrics, Ltd, represents the only producer of veils in the entire south of Britain, the last of an unknown number of such artisans who once catered to high society. Peter Edgewick, 54, inherited the business from his parents, who in turn inherited from his grandfather, a man of considerable acumen who began as a worker in the establishment and rose to acquire it from the family that founded the enterprise during Victorian times. Mr. Edgewick admitted that if not for the reliable demand from people who desire to veil their antisemitism as something else, Popinjay would have folded a generation ago.

“There hasn’t been widespread demand for veils in British society in many years,” he acknowledged. “For a time we adjusted to that shifting market by focusing on other uses of our textiles, but at the heart of it, we have always viewed veils as our core product. Even when, during the 1950’s for example, more than ninety percent of our revenue came from window treatments, our display floor always gave pride of place to the veil. No matter the thickness, opacity, hue, or texture, the veil has long formed part of the Popinjay identity.”

“I harbor some distaste for the Labour Party activists who use our products to ineffectively hide their antisemitism,” continued Edgewick. “Oh, the intolerance for Jews is unpleasant, for certain, but I take some offense at the use of my family’s legacy in so gauche a manner. We need the income in these uncertain times; I must hold my nose and supply what the customer requests, but a veil must never pretend to hide that which is behind it. These nouveau-veil wearers appear to believe the accessory is meant to function in an analogous capacity to pantyhose over a bank-robber’s head: to muddle the identification of the wearer to the observer. This perhaps explains why the same people appear to believe that the veil prevents all and sundry from perceiving them as the antisemites they are. To see my family’s pride and joy so misused suffices to make me feel ill at times. I, unfortunately, do not have the reflexive blame-the-Zionist façade that some of my customers have constructed as a way to make their world seem simpler, and I have the maturity to accept I must live in the real world where compromise is often necessary.”

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