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
Dr. Carter arrived, as summoned. There were seven Jews there before him.
Four of these Jews admitted they had not attended the lecture, and one
had never even heard of Dr. Carter before. The minister was alone. Not
knowing what was afoot, and not having been told to bring witnesses who
had heard his lecture, he was there—a lone Gentile before a Jewish
tribunal.
The Jewish delegation was headed by a certain Rabbi C. H. Levy, who was
referred to as secretary of the Board of Jewish Ministers, a union of
rabbis in connection with the New York Kehillah, which is part of the
general spy system of American Jewry. Rabbi Levy admitted that he had
not attended the specific lecture complained of, nor any other lecture
in the course, but declared he was there to “represent my people.”
Well, Rabbi Levy’s “people” were pretty well represented. There was
hardly any other kind of people there except the Christian clergyman who
was on trial for telling the truth as to public opinion, and Jewish
opinion particularly, about the Russian Jew.
So the Inquisition upon the Gentile began. Six letters were read, most
of them having been addressed to Dr. W. L. Ettinger, Superintendent of
New York Schools. One of these letters asked Dr. Ettinger as a Jew not
to allow his people to be maligned and misrepresented, but to see that
this Gentile was stopped!
After the reading of the letters, Dr. Carter was permitted to speak. He
called attention to the similarity of the style in all the letters, a
similarity which suggested to him the possibility of their having been
dictated by one person. At which Rabbi Levy flew into a passion—though
no one had mentioned his name. Dr. Carter also observed that as Dr.
Ettinger had been appealed to on racial, religious and prejudiced
grounds, it would be right to permit Dr. Carter time to get witnesses on
his side. This was not permitted. He was on trial!
Even the Jews admitted, under straight questioning, that what Dr. Carter
had said was not uttered invidiously. They admitted that he had referred
to the undesirable elements of other races as well as of the Jews. It
was admitted that the subject was not of his own choosing, but was
assigned to him by the Board of Education. There was very little left at
the end of the examination except to assume that the Jews were a
sacrosanct race, with special privileges, a race whom no non-Jew should
presume even to mention in anything but awe-filled tones.
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