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
A Congregational Church in New Jersey decided to abandon the Bible in
some of its classes and substitute sociology, politics, municipal
government and kindred subjects for study, and the Jewish press hailed
it as another sign that the church was “in a fair way to adopt what is
in substance American Judaism.” In St. Louis a clergyman, instead of
preaching sermons, began to act out moralistic dramas which he himself
had written, and the Jewish press again hailed it as a sign of the
dissatisfaction of the Christian with his church. Everything done in
every branch of the Christian church has been closely watched, and
wherever a departure occurred from the distinctly Christian position it
was extravagantly applauded; and wherever loyalty to the landmarks
appeared, it was just as extravagantly condemned. Judaism does not wish
the Christian church to remain Christian. This accounts for destructive
Higher Criticism being almost exclusively the work of Jews, although the
world has long known them under the guise of “German critics.”
Jewish intolerance today, yesterday and in every age of history where
Jews were able to exert influence or power, is indisputable except among
people who do not know the record. Jewish intolerance in the past is a
matter of history; for the future it is a matter of Jewish prophecy. One
of the strongest causes militating against the full Americanization of
several millions of Jews in this country is their belief—instilled in
them by their religious authorities—that they are “chosen,” that this
land is theirs, that the inhabitants are idolators, that the day is
coming when the Jews will be supreme. How can they otherwise act than in
agreement with such declarations? You can see what is meant if you read
Jewish articles describing the shoving aside of the New England people
by the Jews; the supercilious attitude adopted toward the stock that
made America is merely a foreshadowing of what would be the complete
attitude if power and influence made it possible. Bolshevism, which
began with the destruction of the class that contained all the promise
of a better Russia, is an exact parallel for the attitude that is
adopted in this country regarding the original stock.
We are not permitted by the Jews to sing the “Battle Hymn of the
Republic” in our schools because one of the stanzas has a Christian
flavor. The Jews claim that the presence of one Jewish child in an
assembly of children ought in “fairness” to prevent the singing of that
historic song.
Norman Hapgood, writing in a Jewish publication, said: “I need hardly
explain that I do not think Jews ought to insist overmuch on their
rights or nationality in a negative sense. They ought to be as much Jews
as they can, but ought to be as little as possible of what is merely
anti-Christian. For the Jews to try to get a song out of the public
schools because it praises Jesus is perhaps natural but hardly wise.”
Mr. Hapgood received a lot of abuse for his well-conceived counsel.
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