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
There is hardly any country in the world, except the United States,
where denials of this could be made in such a way as to require proof.
In every other country the fact is known. Here we have been under such a
fear of mentioning the word "Jew" or anything pertaining to it, that the
commonest facts have been kept from us--facts which even a superficial
knowledge of Jewish writing would have given us. It was almost a
pathetic spectacle to see American audiences go to lectures about the
Russian situation, and come away from the hall confused and perplexed
because the Russian situation is so un-Russian, all because no lecturer
thought it politic to mention "Jew" in the United States, for, as some
day we shall see, the Jew has contrived to gain control of the platform
too.
Not only do the literary lights of Jewry acknowledge the Jew's
propensity to revolution generally, and his responsibility for the
Russian situation particularly, but the lower lights also have a very
clear idea about it. The Jew in the midst of the revolution is conscious
that somehow he is advancing the cause of Israel. He may be a "bad Jew"
in the synagogue sense, but he is enough of a Jew to be willing to do
any thing that would advance the prestige of Israel. Race is stronger
than religion in Jewry.
The Russian paper, On to Moscow, in September, 1919, said:
"It should not be forgotten that the Jewish people, who for centuries
were oppressed by kings and czars, are the real proletariat, the real
Internationale, which has no country."
Mr. Cohan, in the newspaper, Communist, in April, 1919, said:
"Without exaggeration, it may be said that the great Russian social
revolution was indeed accomplished by the hands of the Jews. Would the
dark, oppressed masses of the Russian workmen and peasants have been
able to throw off the yoke of the bourgeoisie by themselves? No, it was
precisely the Jews who led the Russian proletariat to the dawn of the
Internationale and not only have led, but are also now leading the
Soviet cause which remains in their safe hands. We may be quiet as long
as the chief command of the Red Army is in the hands of Comrade Leon
Trotsky. It is true that there are no Jews in the ranks of the Red Army
as far as privates are concerned, but in the committees and Soviet
organizations, as commissars, the Jews are gallantly leading the masses
of the Russian proletariat to victory. It is not without reason that
during the elections to all Soviet institutions the Jews are winning by
an overwhelming majority * * * The symbol of Jewry, which for centuries
has struggled against capitalism, has become also the symbol of the
Russian proletariat, which can be seen even in the adoption of the Red
five-pointed star, which in former times, as it is well known, was the
symbol of Zionism and Jewry. With this sign comes victory, with this
sign comes the death of the parasites of the bourgeoisie * * * Jewish
tears will come out of them in sweat of drops of blood."
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