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
I am glad to see that this is not an original observation of mine, but
that you yourself have a very strong foreboding about the Jews being the
victims of their own theories and principles. On page 39 of your
pamphlet you write: “It may be that the Jews have always been
instrumental in bringing about the events that they most heartily
disapprove of; that maybe is the curse of the Wandering Jew.” If I had
not the honor, as well as the pleasure, of knowing you personally, if I
were not strongly aware of your passionate desire for light and your
intense loathing of unfairness, this sentence, and this sentence alone,
which tells the truth, will absolve you in my eyes from the odious
charge of being a vulgar anti-Semite.
No, you are not a vulgar, you are a very enlightened, critic of our
Race. _For there is an anti-Semitism, I hope and trust, which does the
Jews more justice than any blind philo-Semitism_, than does that merely
sentimental “Let-them-all-come Liberalism” which in itself is nothing
but the Semitic Ideology over again. _And thus you can be just to the
Jews, without being “romantic” about them._
You have noticed with alarm that the _Jewish elements provide the
driving forces for both Communism and capitalism_, for the material as
well as the spiritual ruin of this world. But then you have at the same
time the profound suspicion that the reason of all this extraordinary
behavior may be the intense Idealism of the Jew. In this you are
perfectly right. The Jew, if caught by an idea, never thinks any more in
watertight compartments, as do the Teuton and Anglo-Saxon peoples, whose
right cerebral hemisphere never seems to know what its left twin brother
is doing; he, the Jew, like the Russian, at once begins to practice what
he preaches, he draws the logical conclusion from his tenets, he
invariably acts upon his accepted principles. It is from this quality,
no doubt, that springs his mysterious force—that force which you no
doubt condemn, but which you had to admire even in the Bolshevists. And
we must admire it, whether we are Jews or whether we are Christians, for
have not these modern Jews remained true to type, is there no parallel
for them in history, do they not go to the bitter end even in our
day?...
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