Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
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Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Truly, these people are a paradox. They are not fair. They are
constituted so that they cannot see the other side of anything. For a
time they actually do convince the secularists that everything public
should be secularized down to the last notch of atheistic demand.
Non-Jews are fair. They are willing to see the other people’s point of
view. When it was said to us that the “Merchant of Venice” was a cruelty
upon Jewish school pupils, we said, without investigation, “Out goes the
Merchant, then!” We discovered later that the Jewish children liked and
appreciated that play better than any other group. Brander Matthews
helped us discover that.
And so when they said, “Reading the Bible is sheer proselytizing; it
isn’t fair,” the non-Jew, who wanted to prove that he is fair and
unprejudiced above all things else (a weakness the Jews know how to
manipulate), said, “Well, then, out goes the Bible!” And it went out.
Very well! What next? “You must abolish Christmas, too.” “You must not
keep Easter—the Jews don’t like it.” “It is anti-Semitic to observe Good
Friday.” In other words, to please the sensitive Jewish natures we must
eradicate from Christian civilization all that is Christian in it.
In the meantime what transpires? Having induced “fair-minded” non-Jews
to do all these things—and every one above enumerated has been done over
and over again at Jewish demand—the Jews then proceeded to sow Judaism
on the fields thus denuded of Christianity. “No religion in the
institutions of the State”—yet in every state university last year there
were, and in every state university this year there probably will be,
courses of lectures delivered by Jewish rabbis—the lectures delivered in
the colleges themselves—propagandizing the youth of the non-Jews with
Judaistic religion, ethics, and economics. That is what the so-called
Jewish “Chautauqua” exists for. It is not a Jewish “Chautauqua”; it is
Jewish propaganda in public educational institutions.
That is the repayment the Jews have made for our “fair-mindedness.”
Their demand for complete secularization is merely their preparation of
the soil for their carefully organized sowing of the seed of Judaism.
And non-Jews permit it to continue, for there is nothing they fear so
much as that their opposition will be regarded as “religious prejudice.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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