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.I think the Jewish Question is no more a social than a religious one,notwithstanding that it sometimes takes these and other forms.It is a national question, which canonly be solved by making it a political world-question to be discussed and controlled by the civilized nations of the world in council."Not only did Herzl declare that the Jews formed a nation, but in relating the action of this Jewishnation to the world Herzl wrote:"When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of the revolutionary party; when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse."This view, which appears to be the true view in that it is the view which has been longest sustained inJewish thought, is brought out also by Lord Eustace Percy, and re-published, apparently with approval, by the Canadian "Jewish Chronicle." It will repay careful reading."Liberalism and Nationalism, with a flourish of trumpets, threw open the doors of the ghetto andoffered equal citizenship to the Jew.The Jew passed out into the Western World, saw the power and the glory of it, used it and enjoyed it, laid his hand indeed upon the nerve centers of its civilization, guided, directed and exploited it, and then - refused the offer.Moreover - and this is a remarkable thing - the Europe of nationalism and liberalism, of scientific government and democratic equality is more intolerable to him than the old oppressions and persecutions of despotism."In a world of completely organized territorial sovereignties he (the Jew) has only two possible cities of refuge: he must either pull down the pillars of the whole national state system or he must create a territorial sovereignty of his own.In this perhaps lies the explanation both of Jewish Bolshevism andof Zionism, for at this moment Eastern Jewry seems to hover uncertainly between the two.In EasternEurope Bolshevism and Zionism often seem to grow side by side, just as Jewish influence moldedRepublican and Socialist thought throughout the nineteenth century, down to the Young Turkrevolution in Constantinople hardly more than a decade ago - not because the Jew cares for thepositive side of radical philosophy, not because he desires to be a partaker in Gentile nationalism orGentile democracy, but because no existing Gentile system of government is ever anything butdistasteful to him."All that is true, and Jewish thinkers of the more fearless type always recognize it as true.The Jewagainst the Gentile scheme of things.He is, when he gives his tendencies full sway, a Republican asagainst the monarchy, a Socialist as against the republic, and a Bolshevist as against socialism.What are the causes of this disruptive activity? First, his essential lack of democracy.Jewish nature isautocratic.Democracy is all right for the rest of the world, but the Jew wherever he is found forms an aristocracy of one sort or another.Democracy is merely a tool of a word which Jewish agitators use to raise themselves to the ordinary level in places where they are oppressed below it; but having reached the common level they immediately make efforts for special privileges, as being entitled to them - a process which the late Peace Conference (Versailles: Ed.) will remain the most startling example.The Jews today are the only people whose special and extraordinary privileges are written into the world's Treaty of Peace.(Original published in July, 1920: refer also to the present United Nations: Editor).In all the explanations of anti-Jewish feeling which modern Jewish spokesmen make, these threealleged causes are commonly given - these three and no more: religious prejudice, economic jealousy, social antipathy.Whether the Jew knows it or not, every Gentile knows that on his side of the Jewish Question no religious prejudice exists.Economic jealousy may exist, at least to this extent, that his uniform success has exposed the Jew to much scrutiny.The finances of the world are in control of Jews; their decisions and their devices are themselves our economic law.Economic jealousy may explain some of the anti-Jewish feeling; it cannot account for the presence ofthe Jewish Question except as the hidden causes of Jewish financial success may become a minorelement of the larger problem.And as for social antipathy - there are many more undesirable Gentiles in the world than there are undesirable Jews, for the simple reason that there are many more Gentiles.None of the Jewish spokesmen mention the political cause, or if they come within suggestive distanceof it, they limit it and localize it.The political element inheres in the fact that the Jews form a nation inthe midst of the nations.It is not the fact that - the Jews remain a nation in the midst of the nations; itis the USE made of that inescapable status, which the world has found to be reprehensible [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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