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
That was the issue as it appeared that day. With half the Jewish
population of the United States centered in the city of New York, they
had assumed control of American education at its source. The group of
Jews sitting in judgment on Dr. Carter were as serene in their control
of the education of the Christians, as if they had been a Soviet court
sitting in Moscow. They had succeeded in driving everything Christian
out of the schools; they had succeeded in introducing the most sickening
praise of their own race; they looked forward to the teaching of Judaism
as the universal morality!
It was further brought out that this Christian minister had been one of
the men who had preached in favor of the Jews. He had been one of those
public men on whom Jewish leaders could depend to respond with typical
Christian generosity. He had delivered blows at race prejudice. He had
lauded the Jewish race and its leading figures. He had interpreted its
commanding influence as the reward of diligence and ability. He had
thundered against what Jewish reports had led him to believe was “the
Crime at Kishineff.” And for this he had been duly complimented by the
Jewish Publication Society, and others. _BUT_ he had now spoken a word
of truth which the Jews disliked, and he was before them for trial and
condemnation.
In the course of the examination it developed that he had been a citizen
of the United States for thirty years, having come to this country from
England at the age of 15. Rabbi Levy apparently missed the full fact,
getting only the fact that Dr. Carter was born in England.
“May I inquire as to whether the gentleman is or is not a citizen of the
United States?” said the rabbi in the air of one who was innocently
uncovering a great exposure.
“I became a citizen over thirty years ago, as soon as the law allowed—as
I trust you did,” was Dr. Carter’s straight thrust.
The rabbi dropped the subject. He did not take up the challenge as to
his own citizenship. But that the matter burned in him is evidenced by
his later remark:
“I’ll see to it, notwithstanding all this, that you shall never speak
again from any platform in New York, you dirty Englishman!”
Dr. Carter called the attention of the committee to the hatred and
malignity expressed in the face, attitude and words of the enraged
rabbi, and said he did not know whether it was a threat against his
life, his pastorate, or his position as lecturer for the New York Board
of Education.
The term “dirty” is rather an unusual one to apply to a race that has so
long astonished Semitic countries by its insistence on its “bawth.” That
is to say, the accuracy of Rabbi Levy’s description would draw about the
same degree as would an appraisal of his gentlemanliness.
There was, fortunately, one other non-Jew present, namely, Ernest L.
Crandall, supervisor of lectures, who was American enough to enter the
fray. He addressed the hysterical little rabbi:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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