The International Jew, the world's foremost problem [volume I] : $b being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920Ford, Henry
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The International Jew, the world's foremost problem [volume I] : $b being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
The note which everyone observes in politics, as in the Press, is the
fear of the Jews. This fear is such that nowhere are the Jews discussed
as are, say, the Armenians, the Germans, the Russians, or the Hindoos.
What is this fear but reflection of the knowledge of the Jews' power and
their ruthlessness in the use of it? It is possibly true, as many Jewish
publicists say, that what is called anti-Semitism is just a panic-fear.
It is a dread of the unknown. The uncanny spectacle of an apparently
poor people who are richer than all, of a very small minority which is
more powerful than all, creates phantoms before the mind.
It is very significant that those who most assume to represent the Jews
are quite content that the fear should exist. They wish it to exist. To
keep it delicately poised and always there, though not too obtrusively,
is an art they practice. But once the balance is threatened, their
crudeness instantly appears. Then comes the threat, by which it is hoped
to re-establish the fear again. When the threat fails, there comes the
wail of anti-Semitism.
How strange this is, that the Jews should not see that the most abject
form of anti-Semitism is just this fear which they are willing to have
felt toward them by their neighbors. This fear is "Semitophobia" in its
worst form. To inspire fear--what is more dreaded by the normal man, and
yet what more delights an inferior race?
Now, a great service is done when the people are emancipated from this
fear. It is the process of emancipation that Jewish publicists attack.
It is this they call anti-Semitism. It is not anti-Semitism at all; it
is the only course that can prevent anti-Semitism.
The process involves several steps. The extent of the Jewish power must
be shown. To this, of course, strong Jewish objection is made, though no
strong disproof can be made.
Then the existence of this power must be explained. It can be explained
only by the Jewish Will to Power, as it may be called, or by the
deliberate program which is followed in the attainment of the power.
When the method is explained, half the damage is undone. The Jew is not
a superman. He is bright, he is intense, his philosophy of material
things leaves him free to do many things from which his neighbor draws
back; but, given equal advantages, he is not a superman. The Yankee is
more than his equal any time, but the Yankee has an inborn inclination
to observe the rules of the game. When the people know by what means
this power is gained--when they are informed how, for example, political
control is seized, as it has been in the United States, the very method
takes all the glamour from the power, and shows it to be a rather sordid
thing after all.
This series of articles is attempting to take these orderly steps, and
it is believed the complete effort will justify itself to reasonable
minds, both Jewish and Gentile.
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