Anti-Semitism in the United States : $b Its history and causesLevinger, Lee J. (Lee Joseph)
History
Anti-Semitism in the United States : $b Its history and causes
Levinger, Lee J. (Lee Joseph)
Antisemitism -- United States; Jews -- United States
In the administration of rules for admission Harvard College maintains
its traditional policy of freedom from discrimination on grounds
of race or religion. Concerning proportional representation, your
committee is unanimous in recommending that no departure be made
from the policy that has so long approved itself—the policy of equal
opportunity for all, regardless of race or religion. Any action
liable to interpretation as an acceptance of the principle of racial
discrimination would to many seem like a dangerous surrender of
traditional ideals.
The report even avoids recommending any test of personal fitness which
might be interpreted as a cover for racial or religious discrimination.
2. A further expression of anti-Semitism appeared in the form of
books and magazine articles. “The Cause of World Unrest,” an English
book, was reprinted in 1920 by G. P. Putnam’s Sons of New York; “The
Protocols of the Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom” by Small,
Maynard and Co. of Boston in the same year; “The Jews in America” by
Burton J. Hendrick, appeared as a series of articles in the World’s
Work, and was issued later as a book by Doubleday Page and Co. of
New York in 1923. Periodicals such as “The Searchlight” of Atlanta, the
“Fellowship Forum” of Washington, D. C., and “The American Standard” of
New York City (to mention only a few of a large number) conducted an
active campaign against Jews and Catholics, which still continues.
Most conspicuous of all was the long series of articles on the Jewish
problem carried by the Dearborn Independent of Dearborn, Mich., the
personal organ of Mr. Henry Ford. This series began in May, 1920; the
four booklets containing their reprinted form are dated, the first
on November, 1920; the fourth, May 1922. They take ostensibly the
position that international finance, under the leadership of certain
Jews, is endeavoring to rule the world. Actually, however, they use any
anti-Semitic theme that comes to hand, from the race theory to articles
on the “Jewish liquor trust” and “the Jewish aids of Benedict Arnold.”
Their chief arsenal of material is the Protocols of the Learned Elders
of Zion, referred to above, a purported record of secret meetings held
by leaders of world Jewry with the object of overthrowing the gentile
nations and ruling the world themselves. This work first saw the light
in Russia in 1901 and was utilized in 1905 as part of the propaganda
against the abortive revolution of that year; it was the work of
one Serge Nilus. Later study has shown it to be a forgery, largely
copied from a French political pamphlet directed against Napoleon III
and published in Brussels in 1865 by Maurice Joly under the title,
“Dialogues in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu”! The Russian
editions of this work, and those in German, as well, included virulent
attacks on Britain and America as representatives of liberalism, and
therefore of Judaism; naturally, these have been omitted from the
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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