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
Again recall which financiers these men most attack. You cannot recall a
single Jewish name.
The main purpose in these two articles, however, is to introduce the
Jewish testimony which exists as to the Jewish nature of Bolshevism.
The Jewish Chronicle, of London, said in 1919:
"There is much in the fact of Bolshevism itself, in the fact that so
many Jews are Bolsheviks, in the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism at
many points are consonant with the finest ideals of Judaism."
In the same paper, of 1920, is a report of an address made by Israel
Zangwill, a noted Jewish writer, in which he pronounced glowing praise
on "the race which has produced a Beaconsfield, a Reading, a Montagu, a
Klotz, a Kurt Eisner, a Trotsky." Mr. Zangwill, in his swelling Semitic
enthusiasm, embraced the Jews in the British Government in the same
category with the Jews of the Hungarian and Russian Bolshevik
governments. What is the difference? They are all Jewish, and all of
equal honor and usefulness to "the race."
Rabbi J. L. Magnes, in an address at New York in 1919, is reported to
have said:
"When the Jew gives his thought, his devotion, to the cause of the
workers and of the dispossessed, of the disinherited of the world, the
radical quality within him goes to the roots of things, and in Germany
he becomes a Marx and a Lassalle, a Haas and an Edward Bernstein; in
Austria he becomes a Victor Adler and a Friedrich Adler; in Russia, a
Trotsky. Just take for a moment the present situation in Russia and in
Germany. The revolution set creative forces free, and see what a large
company of Jews was available for immediate service. Socialist
Revolutionaries and Mensheviki, and Bolsheviki, Majority and Minority
Socialists--whatever they be called--Jews are to be found among the
trusted leaders and the routine workers of all these revolutionary
parties."
"See," says the rabbi, "what a large company of Jews are available for
immediate service." One ought to see where he points. There are as many
Jewish members of revolutionary societies in the United States, as there
were in Russia; and here, as there, they are "available for immediate
service."
Bernard Lazare, a Jewish writer who has published a work on
anti-Semitism, says:
"The Jew, therefore, does take a part in revolutions, and he
participates in them in so far as he is a Jew, or more correctly, in so
far as he remains a Jew."
He says also--"The Jewish spirit is essentially a revolutionary spirit,
and consciously or otherwise, the Jew is a revolutionist."
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