=“At present as an international force we are invulnerable.” (Protocol
III.)=
_Substantiations_
(_a_) “Nothing effectual can really be done to our injury.”
(_Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 9._)
(_b_) “The very impossibility of getting at the Jews nourishes and
embitters hatred of them.”
(_Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 10._)
(_c_) “It is of course possible to get at shares and debentures in
railways, banks and industrial concerns of all descriptions, by taxation,
and where the progressive income tax is in force, all our realized
property can eventually be laid hold of. But all these efforts cannot
be directed against Jews alone, and where they have nevertheless been
made, severe economic crises with far-reaching effects have been their
immediate consequences.”
(_Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 10._)
(_d_) “A distracted and divided people have been so well instructed
in thought that the unity of Israel is greater than all the differing
religions, social, economic and political views of the individuals who
make up a nation, that the Rabbis of Eastern Europe have entered in full
force into the vanguard of the movement.”
(_Jacob de Haas. See his preface to Hertzl’s “The Jewish State,” p. 8._)
(_e_) “... _There is such a thing as a Kol_ (All) _Israel policy to
be pursued by all Jews together, regardless of their political, their
economic, their spiritual outlook._”
(_Rabbi Judas L. Magnes, Speech delivered at the Jewish Labor Congress,
Jan. 16, 1919, at Yorkville Casino, New York City; quoted in the Jewish
Forum, February, 1919, p. 720._)
(_f_) “The Jewish people, traditionally and through its experience,
knows the meaning of internationalism, and it must apply the method of
internationalism to its own national life as well, sharing the destiny of
every people, free and oppressed, in freeing the world in order that it
itself may be freed.”
(_Rabbi Judas L. Magnes, Ibid., p. 721._)
(_g_) “But, in order that the Jewish people may do its work in the world,
it must be organized—_organized for its specific purposes_ as well as for
participation in all of the cultural and spiritual movements of humanity.”
(_Rabbi Judas L. Magnes, Ibid., p. 724._)
(_h_) “_Here we are, just Jews and nothing else, a nation among nations.
Take it or leave it._”
(_From speech of Dr. Weizman, delivered in Manchester, England, Dec. 9,
1917, partially quoted in a pamphlet entitled “Great Britain, Palestine
and the Jews,” p. 73. Published by Geo. H. Doran Co., New York._)
(_i_) “Our union is not a French one, nor English, nor Swiss, nor German.
Nay, our union is Jewish and it is universal. The other peoples are
split into nationalities. We, however, are the only ones who have no
co-citizens, but exclusively co-religionists. The Jew will not sooner
become the friend of a Christian or a Mohammedan than at the time when
the light of the Jewish faith—the only religion of reason—will spread
throughout the world. Scattered among peoples who are hostile to our
rights, to our interests, we wish above all to be and always to remain
Jews. Our nationality is the religion of our fathers and we do not
recognize any other. Living in lands of dispersion we cannot be concerned
about the changing aims of those lands which are strange to us until
the time when our own aims both moral and material are in danger. The
Jewish teachings must spread all over the world. Sons of Israel! however
much the faith would disperse you all over the earth, always consider
yourselves as members of a chosen people. If you realize and if you
understand that the faith of our ancestors is our sole patriotism, _if
you realize that in spite of your cover nationalities you form only one
and the same people_, if you believe that only Judaism constitutes the
religious and political truth, if you are convinced in the above, you
universal sons of Israel, you will come to us, you will listen to our
appeal and you will prove that you accept it.”
(In 1860, Isaac Adolphe Crémieux, the well-known Jewish leader in France,
founded the Universal Jewish Alliance (Alliance Israélite Universelle).
On this occasion he issued a circular appeal to the Jewish organizations
throughout the world. The above quotation is from this circular appeal.
Quoted by A. Shmakoff, “Jewish Speeches,” p. 131.)
(_j_) “It is our opinion that the Jewish question can be solved only by
the _Jews themselves.... We no longer want to wear the mask of any other
nationality._”
(_Theo. Hertzl, in Congress Addresses delivered at Basle, December 26,
1901, p. 28. Published by the Federation of American Zionists, 1917, New
York._)
(_k_) “Furthermore, it is well understood in Germany and in Austria
that the Jews of Russia have never had real citizenship in Russia, and
although a Jew may have been born in Russia, that does not necessarily
imply that he has been a citizen of Russia. Realizing that, and for
other apparent reasons, the German and Austrian Governments are making
every effort to secure the coöperation and good-will of the large Jewish
population, now under their control.”
(_Rabbi Judas L. Magnes. See his letter to Mr. Byrlavski, June, 1916.
Published in the Report of the Commission of the American Jewish Relief
Fund. New York City, March, 1917._)
(_l_) “Let us forget whence we spring. No more talk of ‘German’ or of
‘Portuguese’ Jews. Though scattered over the earth we are nevertheless a
single people.”
(_Rabbi Salomon Lipmann-Cerfberr in his opening speech delivered on July
26, 1806, at the meeting preparatory to the Synedrion. Quoted by H. S.
Chamberlain in his “Foundations of the Nineteenth Century” Vol. I, p.
329._)
(_m_) “_Israel is a nationality._ We are born Jews, ‘_natu_’ because
we are born Jews. A child born from Jewish parents is Jewish. The very
birth casts on him all the duties of an Israelite. It is not through
circumcision that we obtain our Israelan quality. Nay, circumcision is in
no way analogous to Christian baptism. We are not Israelites because we
are circumcised, but, on the contrary, we circumcise our children because
we are Israelites. We acquire the Jewish character through our birth,
and we can never lose it nor get rid of it. _Even if a Jew denies his
religion, even if he is baptized, he does not cease to be an Israelite._
All Israelite duties continue to remain with him.”
(_Archives Israélites, 1864. Quotation from Ed. Drumont, “La France
Juive,” Vol. I, p. 14, 12th ed. Paris: C. Marpont E. Flammarion._)