Aspects of Jewish power in the United States $b : volume IV of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a fourth selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
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Aspects of Jewish power in the United States $b : volume IV of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a fourth selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
This year the _Atlantic_ has contained three articles of value on the
Jewish Question. The first was by Professor Clay upon the situation in
Palestine. Now, Professor Clay is not an anti-Semite, and certainly the
_Atlantic_ is not, and yet the article was received with a good deal of
abuse from Jewish quarters. It told nothing but the truth, and it was
rather pertinent truth too, which intelligent Jews doubtless welcomed.
Professor Clay knew what he was writing about and his conclusions are
not challenged by any authority on the subject.
In the May _Atlantic_, Ralph Philip Boas, who is understood to be of
Jewish descent, wrote an article on “Jew-Baiting in America.” He speaks
rather disdainfully of publications which have endeavored to air the
Jewish Question, but after having thus paid his tax to the Jews’
prejudice, he proceeds in commendable fashion to contribute his thoughts
to the matter. On the whole what he says is true, and the facts he uses
as his foundation are of course the facts with which THE DEARBORN
INDEPENDENT has made its readers familiar. He sets up his straw man of
“Anti-Semitism” and after having valiantly destroyed it, to the applause
of all of us, he gets down to serious business, and says some things
which all could hope would pierce the Jewish consciousness to its
innermost stronghold and set up new vibrations there.
And in the July _Atlantic_, Paul Scott Mowrer, Paris representative of
the Chicago _Daily News_, has an article on “The Assimilation of
Israel.” Mr. Mowrer has won the respect of students of world affairs by
the conscientious ability with which he has observed and reported big
events in Europe. In his news reports he has not hesitated, when the
facts justified it, to cable a story of Jewish participation in this or
that movement. It was reported at one time that an attempt on his job
had been made by certain Jewish influences, and it is certain that
sections of the Jewish press bitterly attacked him. Yet Mr. Mowrer is
probably no more interested in the Jewish Question than the many other
big problems which have come within his journalistic ken, and it would
be extremely unfair to regard him as in any way a propagandist for
anything.
Mr. Mowrer talks about Israel when, of course, he means Judah. There is
a deep distinction there. And he talks also about assimilation, which
the Jew will not admit as a solution. He protects himself fore and aft
by attacking the “anti-Semites,” whoever they are, and by expressing his
confidence in the Jews, but on all the decks of his article he gives the
facts—and they are the same facts. It ought to be pretty well settled by
this time that there are facts, not two sets of facts, but only one set
of facts, concerning Jewish influence and activity.
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