THE INTERNATIONAL JEW
by HENRY FORD - Chapter 4
ARE THE JEWS A NATION?
No Gentile knows how many Jews there are in the United States- The
figures are the exclusive property of the Jewish authorities. The
government of the United States can provide statistics on almost
every matter pertaining to the population of the country, but
whenever it has attempted in a systematic way to get information
about the Jews who are constantly entering the country, and the
number now resident here, the Jewish lobby at Washington steps in and
stops it. The Jews conceal their strength because Jewish influence at
the Capitol has been strong enough to win on all matters affecting
Jewish interests, at all times.
Immigration into the United States became a business 40 years ago-a
strictly Jewish business. There is a perfect organization which
overcomes the numerous objections which arise against the admission
of known revolutionary Jews, European Jews are potential
revolutionaries. America has not been called "The Jews' Country" in
the smaller nations of Europe for nothing, and the alarming increase
in Jewish immigration brings the question to public attention again.
A national conviction is forming upon the subject, for it is apparent
that the strictly Jewish business of getting Jews into the United
States moves like are army which, having done duty in Europe for the
subjugation of that continent, has transferred itself to America.
Jewish secret societies in America are the principal aides in this
long stampede to America. They are able to "arrange" the passport
work, they "arrange" avoidance of the health regulations. The laws of
the country are set aside in open contempt. The Jewish immigrants can
come from anywhere and are coming from anywhere; their first glimpse
of life here shows a Jewish control as potent and complete as it is
in Russia. They see officials of Jewish secret societies override
officials of the United States Immigration Bureau; why should they
not behave as if they own the United States ? No wonder that they
literally beat down the walls and gates with all the eclat of a
victorious invasion. It is an invasion, nothing less, and it is
inspired and helped by influences within the United States. When it
is not secret it is thinly cloaked with sentiment "these people are
fleeing from persecution."
After the tide of Jewish invasion into the United States;
in the 1880 's became too wide for anyone to ignore the dangers, the
census authorities asked Congress for permission to classify people
by "race" a well as by "country of birth." The strongest opposition
was led in Congress by the Jews, principally by Simon Guggenheim and
Julian WV. Mack. Hearings had to be ordered to know what elements
were comprising the population; whether the United States was an
Anglo-Saxon, Semitic, Latin nation, or what. The Jewish opposition to
the hearings disclosed four matters very clearly: (1) the Jew is
opposed to any restrictive legislation against his entrance into a
country; (2) the Jew is opposed to any racial classification of
himself after he has entered a country; (3) the Jewish argument to
the Gentile authorities is that the Jew represents religion and not
race; (4) the Jew has one view to present to the Gentiles, and
another which he cherishes among his own people, on this question of
Race. When Americans disregarded as un- | tenable the argument of
"religion, not race," the Jewish spokesmen were able to fall hack on
the fact that their powerful organizations did not want certain
things and would not have certain things -argument or no argument,
commission or no commission. The Jewish lobbyists had their way.
There is no enumeration of Jews in the United States. There are
classifications for all other races and nations, but none for the
Jew. None of the other races made objection, but the Jew is not
distinguished at all. What is the result today? If you ask the
government of the United States how many Frenchmen there are in the
country, it can give you the figures. If you ask for the number of
Poles, it is there. If you ask for the number of Africans, it is
known. Down a long list you may make your inquiries, you will find
that the government knows. But ask the government of the United
States how many Jews are in the country-and it cannot tell; there are
no records.
RACE OR RELIGION?
What have the Jews themselves to say about "race or religion ?"
The following quotations put the reader in possession of information
regarding the Jew's own thought of himself as a member of a separate
people, quite aside from the consideration of his religion.
Leo N. Levi, President of B'nai B'rith, 1900-1904:
"The distinctive character of the Jew does not arise solely from his
religion. It is true that his race and religion are indissolubly
connected, but whatever be the cause of this junction of the race
idea with the religion, it is very certain that the religion alone
does not constitute the people. A believer in the Jewish faith does
not by reason of that fact become a Jew. On the other hand, however,
a Jew by birth remains a Jew, even though he abjures his
religion."
Graetz, the historian of the Jews, whose monumental work is one of
the standard authorities, says that the history of the Jews, even
since they lost the Jewish State, "still possesses a national
character; it is by no means merely a creed or church history."
Moses Hess, one of the historic figures through whom the
whole Jewish Program has flowed down from its ancient sources to its
modern agents, wrote a book entitled "Rome and Jerusalem" in which he
stated the whole matter with clearness and force:
"The Jews are something more than mere 'followers of a
religion,' namely, they are a race, a brotherhood, a nation." (p.
71).
"A Jew belongs to his race and consequently also to
Judaism, in spite of the fact that he or his ancestors have become
apostates." (pp. 97-98).
"Every Jew is, whether he likes it or not, solidly united
with the entire nation." (p. 163).
"Jewish religion is, above all, Jewish patriotism." (p.
61).
Louis D. Brandeis, Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States and world leader of the Zionist movement, wrote in his
book "Zionism and the American Jews,"-
"Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of
councils, our own instinct and acts, and those of others, have
defined for us the term 'Jew'."
Rabbi Morris Joseph, sometime of the West London
Synagogue of British Jews, writes in his book "Israel a Nation,"-
"Israel is assuredly a great nation .... Israel is
recognized as a nation by those who see it; no one could possibly
mistake it for a sect. To deny Jewish nationality you must deny the
existence of the Jew."
The Jewish barrister, Bertram B. Benas, writes in
"Zionism-the National Jewish Movement,"-
"The Jewish entity is essentially the entity of a
People." Leon Simon, a brilliant and impressive Jewish scholar and
writer, makes an important study of the question of "religion and
nationality," in his volume, "Studies in Jewish Nationalism." He
makes out a case for the proposition that the religion of the Jews is
Nationalism, and that Nationalism is an integral part of their
religion:
"The Messianic Age means for the Jew not merely the
establishment of peace on earth and good will to men, but the
universal recognition of the Jew and his God (p. 14).
"Judaism has no message of salvation for the individual
soul, as Christianity has; all its ideas are bound up with the
existence of the Jewish nation." (p. 20).
"The idea that Jews are a religious sect, precisely
parallel to Catholics and Protestants, is nonsense." (p. 34).
Arthur D. Lewis, a Jewish writer, in his "The Jews a
Nation," also bases nationality on the racial element:
"The Jews were originally a nation, and have retained
more than most nations one of the elements of nationality-namely, the
race element; this may be proved, of course, by the common-sense test
of their distinguishability. You can more easily see that a Jew is a
Jew than that an Englishman is an Englishman."
The idea that the Jews comprise a nation is the most
common idea of all-among Jews. Not only a nation with a past, but a
nation with a future. More than that-not only a nation, but a
Super-Nation. We can go still further on the authority of Jewish
statements: we can say that the future form of the Jewish Nation will
be a kingdom.
Elkan N. Adler says:
"No serious politician today doubts that our people have
a political future."
This future political definiteness and power was in the
mind of Moses Hess when he wrote in 1862-mark the date !-in the
preface of his "Rome and Jerusalem," these words:
"No nation can be indifferent to the fact that in the
coming European struggle for liberty, if may have another people as
its friend or foe."
Hess, complaining of the inequalities visited upon the
Jews, was saying that what the individual Jew could not get because
he was a Jew, the Jewish Nation would be able to get because it would
be a nation. He warns the Gentile nations to be careful, because in
that "coming struggle" there would be another nation in the list, the
Jewish Nation, which could be the friend or foe of any it chose.
Dr. Israel Friedlaender says:
"It is enough for us to know that the Jews have always
felt themselves as a separate race, sharply marked off from the rest
of mankind."
As to the problems of the Jewish Nation, there is plenty
of Jewish testimony to the fact that the influence of Americanism is
harmful to Jewish life; that is, they are in antagonism, like two
opposite ideas. And that Zionism is the modern rallying point for
Jewish nationalism. The actual beliefs of the most active and
influential part of Jewry in America are demonstrated in a work
published by the Zionist Organization of America, "Guide to
Zionism,"
"The name of their national religion, Judaism, is derived
from their national designation. An unreligous Jew is still a Jew,
and he can with difficulty escape his allegiance only by repudiating
the name of Jew." (p. 5).
Jewry nowhere subscribes in the persons of its greatest
teachers and its most authoritative representatives to the theory
that the Jew is only "a brother of the faith." Often he is not of the
faith at all, but he is still a Jew. The "religion, not race"
argument exposes the double minds of those political leaders who,
instead of straightforwardly meeting the Jewish Question, endeavor to
turn all inquiry aside by an impressive confusion of the Gentile
mind.
There are two Jewish Programs in the world - one which it
is intended the Gentiles should see, and one which is exclusively for
the Jews. In determining which is the real program, it is a safe
course to adopt the one that is made to succeed. It is the program
sponsored by the so called Zionists which is succeeding. That is the
program whose sponsors stand for the racial and national separateness
of the Jews.
Regardless of what may be said to the Gentiles for the
purpose of hindering or modifying their action, there is no question
of what the Jew thinks of himself: he thinks of himself as belonging
to a People, united to that people by ties of blood which no amount
of credal change can weaken, heir of that People's past and agent of
that People's political future. He belongs to a race; he belongs to a
nation. He seeks a kingdom to come on this earth, a kingdom which
shall be over all kingdoms, with Jerusalem the ruling city of the
world. That desire of the Jewish nation may be fulfilled; and the
relationships between Jewish nationalism and the nationalism of the
peoples among whom the Jews dwell are pointers to the potential
victory.
THE POLICY OF "MISREPRESENTATION"
To these exposures of the "religion, not race,"
arguments, the Jews have complained that they are being
misrepresented. It is their usual complaint. They are always being
"misrepresented" and "persecuted" except when they are being praised
for what they are not. If the Jews were fully understood by the
Gentiles, if the Christian churches, for example, were freed from
their delusion that the Jews are Old Testament people, and if the
churches really knew what Talmudic religion is, the
"misrepresentation" would be still stronger.
The downfall of Russia was prepared by a long and
deliberate program of misrepresentation of the Russian people,
through the Jewish world press and Jewish diplomatic service. The
name of Poland has been drawn (December, 1920: Ed.) in filth through
the press of the United States under Jewish instigation; a
vilification of Poland whose sole crime was that she wished to save
herself from the Jews. But whenever a hand has been raised to prevent
the Jews overrunning the people and secretly securing the control of
the major instruments of life, the Jews have raised the cry of
"misrepresentation." They never meet the question outright. False
denials, pleas for sympathy, and a base campaign for smearing others
with their own crimes, and an unworthy attempt to link others with
them in their fall, constitute their whole method of defense.* And a
concentration of all the political, economic, legal weapons at their
command are flung at the head of the outspoken critic of the Jew who
persists in defending his right to national existence free from
Jewish infiltration, influence and control.
The policy of "misrepresentation" succeeds because there
is a feeling strongly entrenched in Gentiles that somehow the Jews
are the "chosen people," and that it is dangerous to oppose them in
anything; whoever opposes the Jew is damned. "The fear of the Jews"
is a very real element in life. It is just as real among the Jews as
among non-Jews. The Jew himself is bound in fear to his people, and
he exercises the fear of the curse throughout the sphere of
religion-"I will curse them that curse thee." It remains to be
proved, however, that opposition to the destructive tendencies of
Jewish influences all along the principal avenues of life is a
"cursing" of the Jews.
If the Jews were really Old Testament people (which they
are not), if they were really conscious of a "mission" for the
blessing of all the nations, the very things in which they offend
would automatically disappear. If the Jew is being "attacked" it is
not because he is a Jew but because he is the source and life of
certain tendencies and influences which, if they are not checked,
mean the destruction of moral society. The only real
misrepresentation in society is regarded as the Jews' privilege.
DISRAELI PORTRAYS THE: JEWS
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield and Prime Minister of
Great Britain, was a Jew and gloried in it. He wrote many books, in a
number of which he discussed his people in an effort to set them in a
proper light. The British Government was not then so Jewish as it has
since become, and Disraeli was easily one of the greatest figures in
it. In his book, "Coningsby," there appears a Jewish character named
Sidonia, in whose personality and through whose utterances, Disraeli
sought to present the Jew as he would like the world to see him.
Yet here is the International Jew, full dress; he is the Protocolist,
too, wrapped in mystery, a man whose fingers sweep all the strings of
human motive, and who controls the chief of the brutal
forces-Money.
If a non-Jew had written a Sidonia, so truthfully showing the racial
history and characteristics of the Jews, he would have been subjected
to that terrific pressure which the Jews apply to every truth teller
about themselves.
Disraeli caused his Jewish hero, Sidonia, to remark: "The world is
governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those
who are not behind the scenes," and even more illuminating lines by
Disraeli which half compel the thought that, after all, he was
writing to warn the world of Jewish ambition for power:
"You never observe a great intellectual movement in
Europe in which the Jews do not greatly participate. The first
Jesuits were Jews. That mysterious Russian Diplomacy which so alarms
western Europe is organized and principally carried on by Jews. That
mighty revolution which is at this moment preparing in Germany, and
which will be, in fact, a second and greater Reformation, and of
which so little is yet known in England, is entirely developing under
the auspices of Jews."
Just how the Jews work to break down the established
order of things, by means of ideas, as the Protocols claim, is shown
in a conversation of Sidonia:
"The Tories lose an important election at a critical
moment; 'tis the Jews come forward to vote against them. The Church
is alarmed at the scheme of a latitudinarian university, and learns
with relief that funds are not forthcoming for its establishment; a
Jew immediately advances and endows it."
If these words had been written by a non-Jew, the cry of
"anti-Semitism" would ring through the land. Yet Sidonia adds: "And
every generation they (the Jews) must become more powerful and
dangerous to the society that is hostile to them."
"Latitudinarianism" is the doctrine of the Protocols in a
word. It is the break-up by means of a welter of so-called "liberal"
ideas which construct nothing themselves, but have the power to
destroy the established order.
Several generations have passed since Disraeli's words
were written. The Jew still regards every form of non-Jewish society
as hostile to him. They have become more powerful and more dangerous.
Those who would measure the danger-look around !
The Jew says that the Protocols are inventions. Is Benjamin Disraeli
an invention? Was this Jewish Prime Minister of Great Britain
misrepresenting his people ? He showed that in Russia, the very
country where the Jews of his time complained they were least free,
the Jews were in control. He showed that the Jews knew the technique
of revolution, foretelling in his book the revolution that shortly
broke out in Germany. How did he foreknow it? Because that revolution
was developing under the auspices of Jews, and, though it was then
true that "so little is yet known in England," Disraeli the Jew knew
it, and knew it to be Jewish in origin and development and purpose.
One point is clear; Disraeli told the truth. He presented his people
before the world with correctness. He described Jewish power, Jewish
purpose and Jewish method with a certainty of touch that betokens
more than knowledge _ he shows racial sympathy and understanding. Why
did he do it? Disraeli the flamboyant, most oriental of courtiers and
suave of politicians, with a Seen financial ability Was it that
typically racial boastfulness, that dangerous, aggressive conceit in
which the Jew gives up most of his secrets? No matter; he is the one
man who told the truth about the Jews without being accused of
"misrepresenting" the Jews.
"We will so wear out and exhaust the Gentiles by all this that they will be compelled to offer us an international authority, which by its position will enable us to absorb without disturbance all the governmental forces of the world and thus form a super-government.
"We must so direct the education of Gentile society that its hands will drop in the weakness of discouragement in the face of any undertaking where initiative is needed."
- The Fifth Protocol.
THE INTERNATIONAL JEW
by HENRY FORD,
SR.
Chapter 1. Jewish History in the
United States Chapter 2 .Angles of Jewish
Influence Chapter 3. Victims, or
Persecutors? Chapter 4. Are the Jews a
Nation? Chapter 5. The Jewish Political
Program Chapter 6. Introduction to the
"Jewish Protocols" Chapter 7. How the Jews Use
Power Chapter 8. Jewish Influence in
American Politics Chapter 9. Bolshevism and
Zionism Chapter 10. Jewish power in the
Theatre and Cinema Chapter 11. Jewish Jazz Becomes
our National Music Chapter 12. Liquor, Gambling, Vice
and Corruption Chapter 13. The World's Foremost
Problem Chapter 14. The Jewish Money
Power Chapter 15. The Battle for Press
Control Chapter 16. The State of
All-Judaan
