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
Denial is useless, for the thing is too blatant and has advertised
itself too long. What amazes the student of the Jewish Question in the
United States is the stupidity which permitted Jewish Bolshevism to
flaunt itself so openly during the past few years. The only explanation
that seems at all adequate is that the Jews never dreamed that the
American people would become sufficiently awake to challenge them. The
present widespread exposure of Jewish tactics in the United States has
doubtless come as a surprise to the Jewish leaders, and this cannot be
accounted for otherwise than that they thought they had gained too
strong a grip on the American mind to make a challenge possible.
It remains to be seen whether the Jewish leaders shall be able to
control the Frankenstein that their false policies have created.
Following exactly the program which the Jewish leaders approved for
Russia, the organized Jews of New York are exhibiting a zeal and a
directness which Jewish leaders would like to curb for the present, if
we are to judge from some of the complaints that the Bolshevik Jews are
making.
Benjamin Schlessinger, president of the International Garment Workers’
Union, whose membership numbers 150,000, and which is a part of the New
York Kehillah, is one of the complainants. His union, of course, is not
the regular American labor union formed for the betterment of working
conditions and wages; it is a revolutionary union for the complete
change of the social system, involving also a change of government. In
an interview printed in the _Jewish Forward_ of April 8, Schlessinger
complains against the manner in which Jewish judges have recently come
to interfere with Jewish strikes:
“‘And Jewish judges come to their assistance. They issue injunctions;
and it is said that they do it to save the Jewish name, so that it shall
not be said that “all Jews are Bolshevists.” So the injunctions become a
Jewish affair....’
“‘We have a gigantic wide-branched Kehillah in New York. In all corners,
Jews! All over, what you see and what you hear—Jews. And, of course,
also dress; politicians and greater ones.’
“But only _we_ may say this. And I understand Schlessinger....
Schlessinger explains it this way: Several reasons are given why judges
like (here a Jewish judge is named) twist the law.... The real purpose
is to break our strike.... But, then, after all, there is a reason, a
Jewish reason. He wants to demonstrate to the American community, he
claims, that not all Jews are Bolshevists.”
This excerpt shows several things: that only “we” may say certain
things; that Jewish authority is trying to cover the blemish of
Bolshevism; and that this is done in order to demonstrate to “the
American community” a certain desirable thing. The Jewish community, it
is presumed, is not so easily impressed. The Kehillah is apparently
trying to call in its kites but they have apparently flown too high in
the rarefied atmosphere of revolutionism.
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