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
Observing and weighing the events and tendencies of Jewish rule thus far
in Palestine, it is not difficult to see the purpose in it all. The Jews
still distrust their ability to make a State. They do not distrust the
world’s willingness to let them have a State; indeed, it is amazing how
naturally the Jews place confidence in that portion of the world they
have always affected to despise. But deep-seated in the Jew is a
distrust of himself. He doesn’t know how his people will contrive to
live together. He doesn’t know how they will contrive to drop the
principles and practices which are so destructive of social comity
elsewhere. And he feels that, patient as the mandatory power may be now,
it is doubtful how long that patience will hold out under the blunders
and brutalities that will be inseparable from Zionist rule, if any
deductions can be drawn from the facts at hand. Therefore, feeling that
the time may be short, he is endeavoring by such actions as interference
with the cultural question, with the racial rights of the natives, and
by such schemes as the land-grabbing device described above, to get so
strong a hold on the situation as will seriously complicate it whenever
Great Britain shall feel it to be her duty to the world to step in and
attempt to bring some kind of order out of the chaos.
It begins to be very clear that Jewish nationalism will develop along
the line of enmity to the rest of the world. Already the dangerous
proposal has been made to organize a Jewish army for the protection of
the Suez Canal. Instead of thinking of roads and farmsteads, of
vineyards and oil presses, of schools and sanitary villages, the Jews
are thinking of elevating themselves into the military power that shall
stand between East and West on that most strategic strip of ground in
the world. The whole situation is fraught with danger, and men who wish
well to the Jews are alarmed and saddened by the prospect.
There are three elements of danger in the situation as it exists today:
the overwhelmingly predominant Bolshevik element that is being poured
into Palestine; the intense, egotistic and challenging nationalism that
Zionists exhibit even before they get a potato patch—the taste for world
politics and world power; and the racial confusion which now exists in
Palestine.
These combined are dynamite. The first is more vital than many realize.
Already the Jews who have gone to Palestine at great sacrifice and for
pious reasons are complaining that instead of the Psalms of David the
people are singing songs of the Red Revolution, and instead of meeting
for instruction and prayer there are riotous gatherings extolling
Trotsky as Messiah and the Soviet as the kingdom of heaven. On the third
anniversary of the Jewish Revolution in Russia, the streets of Jerusalem
were placarded with sentiments of blasphemy and treason, and May Day
this year was devoted to the exaltation of anarchy.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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