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
Religion
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
But in the course of his studies he gave other investigators the benefit
of his frank statements. He did not put lies into the mouths of his
people. He was not endeavoring to maintain himself in position by
prejudiced racial appeals. He looked certain facts in the face, made his
report, and chose his side. Several times in the course of his argument,
his very logic led him up to the point where, logically, he would have
to cast aside his Jewish idea of separateness. But with great calmness
he discarded the logic and clung to the Jewish tradition. For example:
“The better to facilitate such happiness in every country and in every
age, various kinds of organizations have existed as they exist today.
The Jews have theirs.
“For many reasons they are exclusive. In theory they should not be so.
In our social organizations we should, in deference to the argument
which I have already named, admit any congenial and worthy Gentile who
honors us with his application. But what may be theoretically correct
may be found practically wrong. It certainly is a wrong to exclude a
worthy person because he does not happen to be a Jew; but on the other
hand, where are you to draw the line?”
This is frankness to a fault. Of course, it is wrong, but the right is
impractical! Logic goes by the boards in the face of something stronger.
Mr. Levi is not to be blamed for having gone to his tribe. Every man’s
place is with his tribe. The criticism belongs to the lick-spittle
Gentile Fronts who have no tribe and become hangers-on around the
outskirts of Judah, racial mongrels who would be better off if they had
one-thousandth of the racial sense which the Jew possesses.
This brief survey of the philosophy which Mr. Levi both lived and
taught, and which is shared by the leaders of American Jewry, is in
strict agreement with Jewish principles all down the centuries. In his
published addresses Mr. Levi does not touch upon all the implications of
the separateness which he enjoins upon his nation. Why do they keep by
themselves? What is it that keeps them distinct? Is it their religion?
Very well; let us regard them as a sect of religious recluses and wish
them well in their endeavors to keep themselves unspotted of the world.
Is it their race? So their leaders teach. Race and nationality are
strictly claimed. If this is so, there must be a political outlook. What
is it? Palestine? Not that any one can notice. A great deal may be read
about it in the newspapers, the newspapers in turn being supplied
through the Associated Press with the Jewish Telegraph Agency’s
propaganda dispatches; but no one in Palestine notices the Land becoming
more Jewish. Jewry’s political outlook is world rule in the material
sense. Jewry is an international nation. It is this, and nothing else,
which gives significance to its financial, educational, propagandist,
revolutionary and immigration programs.
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Issue of May 14, 1921.
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