3. The strategy of stirring up class hatred in Christian nations, and
the encouragement of revolutionary radicalism to that end, which has
such a prominent place in the Protocols, finds corroboration in the very
prominent part which, in recent times, the Jews have been taking in the
radical and revolutionary movement in many parts of the world, including
Hungary, Germany, Holland, Poland, the United States, and certain South
American states.
The predominant influence of the Jews in the Bolshevist movement
throughout the world is a question which is publicly discussed in the
European press. The Budapest correspondent of the _London Times_ some
time ago stated:
“Hungary is being terrorized by Jewish agitators.” (_American
Jewish News_, May 2, 1919.)
Charges of this kind have appeared in the press in many European
countries. In this connection we call the attention of the reader to an
article of the _Morning Post_, entitled “An Insult to Poland,” August 30,
1919. In this article, among other things, the following is stated:
“It is unfortunately true that Bolshevism is very largely a
Jewish movement. In Russia the Jewish Bolsheviks have taken a
terrible revenge upon all whom they regarded as enemies, and
also upon all who protected the Russian peasantry against the
exactions of the Jewish usurers.”
This article closes with the following sentence:
“And we warn Jews also, not for the first time. They are
showing themselves not Englishmen of the Jewish faith, as we
used to consider them, but a nation with a foreign policy of
their own—and that policy hostile to the friends of England.
And that is what in the end Englishmen will not stand.”
The three following documents are also of importance:
(_a_) An editorial article which appeared in the London _Morning Post_ on
April 8, 1919, entitled “Bolstering the Bolshevik.”
(_b_) A letter signed by Lionel Rothschild and nine other well-known
British Jews to the editor of the London _Morning Post_, which
practically justifies the stand that was taken by that paper.
(_c_) Comment on the two above-mentioned documents published in the
_American Jewish News_ on May 2, 1919.
We set forth in full these three documents.
(_a_) “_Bolstering the Bolshevik_
“The news from Russia fluctuates from day to day. It is
now reported that the situation on the Murmansk Coast has
somewhat improved; but the situation in Archangel is obviously
critical. Our soldiers have driven off formidable attacks;
but the fighting is close and desperate. From South Russia
the Bolsheviks reported that Odessa had been captured, and
although we may hope that if this is true the Allied forces
were safely evacuated, there remains a terrible anxiety as to
the fate which may have overtaken our devoted friends in South
Russia. For these critical situations we do not blame the War
Office; but we do blame Allied policy which has trifled with
the whole situation and has alternated between large promises
to our Allies and obsequious approaches to our enemies. We are
informed that although the anti-Bolshevist Armies in Russia
have been promised arms and supplies in abundance, what they
have actually received has been contemptible. The result is
that they are fighting almost naked and in many cases without
arms. We may be certain both our soldiers and our allies in
Russia are putting up a brave and desperate fight for their
lives and their cause, but in these circumstances they must
feel that they have been forgotten, if not betrayed, by those
upon whom they looked for support. And so it is in Poland. We
hear from trustworthy sources that the spirit of the Poles
is magnificent. They are ready to become a strong and trusty
support of the Allies upon the eastern borders of Germany; but
they ask in vain for munitions, supplies and raw materials, and
they see their vital communications with the Baltic left in the
hands of their enemy and ours.
“Poland and Russia are one problem in this sense. We must
support our friends if we are to defeat the Bolsheviks, and
their secret abettors the Germans. For it is certain in that
while Germany consistently suppresses Bolshevism in Germany
she encourages it in Poland and Russia. But we are not
supporting our friends. We promised them supplies which did
not arrive, and political support which breaks down before
German opposition. What is the reason of it? We notice that the
_Daily Herald_ and the _Daily News_ are persistently telling
the people of this country that we are fighting Bolshevism in
obedience to the pressure of the capitalists. Now that is a
lie. We are fighting Bolshevism in opposition to a very strong
group of German-Jewish and Russian-Jewish capitalists, who are
secretly working for the Bolshevist cause. Mr. Lansing may or
may not be aware of the fact, but he is helping as corrupt a
group of international financiers as ever lived. And the object
of that group is to support Bolshevism in Russia in order to
make a deal with the Bolsheviks. We have mentioned several
times the disagreeable fact that the Russian Bolsheviks were
Russian Jews. These Jews are at the present moment in control
of the Russian Government and they have powerful friends in all
the Allied countries who are helping them. We have appealed to
the British Jews, but appealed so far in vain, to dissociate
themselves formally from a cause which is doing the Jewish
people terrible harm in all parts of the world. In reply the
Jewish press shower upon us not only abuse but threats. Thus,
for example, the _Jewish World_ threatens us with the fate of
Mordecai: ‘ ... we wish it no harm, but we would beg it to
recollect,’ so it says, ‘_while yet it has its feet upon the
earth_, the fate of its anti-Jewish forbear in that narrative,
in the hope that it may mend its ways betimes.’
“We are aware of the significance of that threat. We fully
understand what it means, and the secret Allies upon whom the
_Jewish World_ reckons when it makes it. We saw them at work
in Glasgow and Belfast. We see them at work now in Budapest,
where, it is reported, out of thirty members of the Bolshevik
Soviet, twenty-six are Jews. We understand the threat, but we
do not propose to be deterred in our duty to the British public
by the terrorist methods of the Bolsheviks. And we suggest to
the British Jewish community—most of whom, we believe, are by
no means in sympathy with this crusade—that they are being
served very badly in their newspapers, which openly threaten
Bolshevik methods and scoff at advice which is tendered in a
friendly spirit. In secret, we feel certain, the majority of
the British, Jews distrust and dislike the fanatics who are
now leading Jewry astray in the cause of a spurious Jewish
Imperialism. But they are afraid to dissociate themselves
publicly from the dervishes of Judaism. In the meantime these
powerful influences are at work in every country, and chiefly
in Paris, where they are working powerfully against the cause
of Poland. An unseen hand is at this present time stifling the
infant Poland in its cradle, and this is being done in the
interests of German-Jewish Capitalism. It is a conspiracy which
is assisted by so-called Liberal newspapers like the _Daily
News_, and so-called Labor newspapers like the _Daily World_;
but it is a conspiracy, nevertheless, which is directed against
the cause of liberty in Poland and in the interests of alien
Capitalism. For it remains true that our labor agitators, while
they are the enemies of British Capital, contrive to be the
friends of the Capitalism of the enemies of England. Mr. Lloyd
George and President Wilson—those champions of liberty—also
appear to be more susceptible to the influence of an alien
capitalism than to the cry for freedom of long enchained
Poland. We ask our readers, who remember the traditional
friendship of England with the Polish cause, to mark the note
of anguish in Mr. Paderewski’s statement which we publish this
morning. He speaks—and he speaks truly—of ‘the bitterness of
the disappointment of the Polish population,’ but it is not
only the Polish population that is disappointed by the great
Danzig betrayal. Every student of Allied interests must see
that, whereas a strong Poland might be a bulwark against
both German militarism and Russian Bolshevism, a weak Poland
must be the vassal of one and the victim of the other. As to
the economic side of the question, British commerce may bid
farewell to all hope of a connection in Poland if it leaves
Poland in such a situation as to be the enforced dependent of
Germany.”
(_b_) “_Bolshevism and Jewry—a Repudiation_
LONDON MORNING POST,
April 23rd, 1919.
“TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST:—
We have read with deepest concern and with sincere regret
certain articles which have recently appeared in two closely
associated Jewish newspapers in this country on the topic of
Bolshevism and its ideals. In our opinion, the publication of
these articles can have no other effect than to encourage the
adoption of the theoretic principles of Russian Bolsheviks
among foreign Jews who have sought and found refuge in England.
We welcome, accordingly, your suggestion that British Jews
should ‘dissociate themselves from a cause which is doing
the Jewish people harm in all parts of the world.’ This is
profoundly true, and we, on our behalf and on behalf of
numbers of British Jews with whom we have conferred, desire
to dissociate ourselves absolutely and unreservedly from the
mischievous and misleading doctrines which those articles are
calculated to disseminate. We repudiate them as dangerous in
themselves and as false to the tenets and teachings of Judaism.
Partly in order to counteract the mistaken policy of the
newspapers referred to, the League of British Jews was founded
in November, 1917. The proceedings and views of the League are
published in a monthly bulletin, entitled _Jewish Opinion_,
which can be obtained at the office of the League, 708-709
Salisbury House, E.C. 2, and which may eventually be merged
in a larger journal appearing at more frequent intervals. For
we thoroughly concur with your criticism that ‘the British
Jewish community, most of whom,’ as you rightly say, ‘are by no
means in sympathy with this (Nationalist) crusade, are being
served very badly by their newspapers.’ Meantime we take this
opportunity of repudiating in public the particular statements
in those newspapers to which you have felt it your duty to call
attention.
Yours, etc.,
LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD
SWAYTHLING
PHILIP MAGNUS
MARCUS SAMUEL
HARRY S. SAMUEL
LEONARD L. COHEN
I. GOLLANCZ
JOHN MONASH
CLAUDE G. MONTEFIORE
ISIDORE SPIELMANN.”
(_c_) “_Prominent London Jews justify anti-Semitic Attack_
“General Monash, Rothschild, and Montefiore Figure in
Agitation.
“In reply to a recent article in the London _Morning Post_,
in which the editor accused the Jews as being Bolsheviks, a
letter justifying the stand of the _Post_ in the matter was
sent to that paper and signed by Baron Lionel Rothschild, Lord
Swaythling, Sir Magnus, Sir Marcus Samuel, Sir Harry Samuel,
General Monash, Sir Isidore Spielmann, Claude Montefiore,
Leonard Cohen and Professor Galantz.
“As a result of this letter, a self-sanctifying leading
editorial appeared in the _Post_, which cried out in virtuous
indignation against all those who had previously questioned
that the majority of the Jews are Bolsheviks. The letter,
coming as it has, at a time when the anti-Semitic pot is
boiling in London, has a peculiarly unfortunate effect. The
opinion of London Jewry towards these ten men they consider
have betrayed them, may best be left to the imagination.”
It is significant that the feeling that the Jews are largely instrumental
in promoting Bolshevism and radicalism in general is by no means confined
to England. The New York _World_ published on January 26, 1919, a
cable, from Buenos Aires entitled “Argentina Deports Fourteen Hundred
Bolshevists.” The cable reads as follows:
“_Buenos Aires, January 25._—Fourteen hundred prisoners,
charged with Bolshevist activities, are on board a cruiser here
awaiting deportation, according to Secret Service Men. _The
majority of them are Russian Jews._ Some Spaniards are among
the number.”
In the same connection the New York _Tribune_, on January 24, 1919,
reported that in Buenos Aires posters were put up in which the Russian
Jews were blamed “for the recent outbreaks, as well as the anarchistic
outbreak in 1910,” and it was demanded that “the government rid the
nation of this Jewish pest.”
In the issue of _The Review_ of March 13, 1920, an article was published
entitled “Bolshevism in Holland.” The article gives a brief description
of the Bolshevist movement in Holland. It also gives the names of the
most prominent leaders of the Bolshevist movement in that country. In
part the article reads as follows:
“First among these is Mr. David Wijnkoop, _an Amsterdam Jew_,
of a fiery, impetuous temperament, a great orator with a
strong hold on the masses. He is the Dutch counterpart of his
Russian comrade Trotzky, whom he resembles even in outward
appearance, and a faithful henchman of his Moscow _alter ego_
in the spreading of the latter’s international propaganda.”
It is a well-known fact that in Hungary, during the Bolshevist revolution
of 1919, Bela Kun, whose real name is Cohen, a Jew, became the dictator.
It was often reported in various papers that out of the thirty-one Soviet
officials in Hungary twenty-six were Jews.
In Austria revolutionary attempts were made to set up a Bolshevist
government, and the two brothers Alder, as well as Friedrich Adler,
all of whom are Jews, were the leading spirits of the Bolshevist
revolutionary propaganda in that country.
In Germany the first Spartacan revolt was almost exclusively under the
control of Jews. Among others were: Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, Radek
(whose real name is Sobelsohn), Eugene Levine, Muscham.
In the recent attempt to overthrow the Ebert Government and set up a
Bolshevist Republic, almost all of the leaders in Berlin were Jews. The
New York _Sun_, under date of March 18, 1920, gives the names of the
Communist leaders who attempted to overthrow the government as follows:
Cohn, Daumig, Newmann, Dr. von Kahn, Kurt Bever, Levy.
As to the United States the following should be stated:
While it is a generally recognized fact that the Socialist, Communist,
Radical, I. W. W., and Bolshevist movements are largely recruited from
the foreign-born population of various nationalities, nevertheless
it can scarcely be denied that the moving spirit of the destructive
revolutionary propaganda is largely Jewish and fomented by Jews. Thus,
for instance, the notorious “Russian” Soviet Bureau, headed by Ludwig C.
A. K. Martens, a German, was almost exclusively composed of Jews. Those
who were in charge of responsible departments in the Bureau were as
follows:
Abraham Heller Manager of the Commercial Department
Nuorteva Whose real name is said to be Neuberger,
Manager of the Propaganda Department
Gregory Weinstein General Office Manager
Morris Hillquit } Counselors at law for the Soviet Bureau
Charles Recht }
All of the five Socialists who were recently ousted from the Assembly
of the state of New York by an overwhelming vote were Jews. Their names
are: Louis Waldman, August Classens, Samuel A. de Witt, Samuel Orr,
and Charles Solomon. During the trial of these men one of the most
sensational pieces of evidence introduced by the state to show that the
Socialist Party advocated the overthrow of the government by violence
and revolution, was a book published in Yiddish by the Jewish Socialist
Federation of America. This federation is a part of the Socialist Party.
The official report of the Judiciary Committee of the Assembly of the
State of New York remarks that in the book published in Yiddish, the
principles of Socialism, “were not camouflaged, as they frequently are
in English” (page 31). The book in question typifies the extreme of
revolutionary Socialism in the United States. We quote some of the more
striking passages:
“Workingmen cannot depend on ‘_peaceful_ evolution’; they must
prepare for a revolution, and class-dictatorship” (page 207).
“The Socialist movement rouses the workingmen to revolution;
it preaches to them class-struggle, awakens within them
class-consciousness, makes all necessary preparations for a
Socialistic order. When society is ready for the overturn, when
the Socialist organization feels that the moment has come, it
will make the revolution. To predict when and how this should
be done is impossible. This is a thing which must be determined
separately in every country, because the circumstances in every
country are different. No sooner than the revolution is made,
however, the first aim of the Socialists must be to seize the
government, the state, by whatever means they can succeed
in doing this with and then their rule must establish the
dictatorship of the Proletariat.
“This dictatorship will be employed for one thing, _to
eliminate capitalism by force, take away by force the capital
from private owners_ and transfer it to the ownership of the
community.”
“Socialists seek to be elected into the government principally
for the sake of propaganda.”
“To the Socialist at present, the meaning of class struggle,
_Internationale, and dictatorship of the Proletariat must be
clear. He must understand that Socialism is not a reform
movement. He must know that Socialism is a Revolutionary
world-perspective, and that the Socialist movement is a
Revolutionary movement._”
The radical periodicals published in this country in Russian are almost
entirely managed and completely controlled by Jews. For instance, the
_Russki Golos_ has an editorial staff composed of four men, all of
whom are Jews, namely, Weinbaum, Zvesdichiy, Sokolov, Gisenkin. The
official organ of the Russian Communist Branch of the American Communist
Party, the _Novy Mir_, is edited by two Jews, namely, N. Hourwitch, and
Stoklitzky. The Bolshevist weekly, _Pravda_, is edited by two Jews,
namely, Finkelstein and Weinstein. The Ukrainian Bolshevist tri-weekly
publication, _Robitnik_, is published by a Jew, K. Pitlar. At the same
time, even leaving out the well-known Yiddish publication _The Jewish
Daily Forward_, with pronounced pro-Bolshevist tendencies, the new
Anarchistic periodical, _The Communist World_, published in English, has
the following men on its editorial staff, all of whom are Jews:
Maximilian Cohen Editor
B. D. Wolfe Associate Editor
George Ashkenouzi Business Manager
H. Winitsky Executive Secretary
Winitsky was recently convicted of criminal anarchy in the New York
Courts.
Again, with the recently founded Communist Party of America, the rôle
of the Jew is very important, inasmuch as its founder is Louis Fraina,
an Italian Jew. Examples of this kind could be multiplied almost
indefinitely. For this reason we must content ourselves with a reference
to an article published in the New York _Call_. This is the official
organ of the Socialist Party of America, which is issued under the motto:
“Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your
chains, and a world to gain.”
The president of this publication is S. Block, a Jew. The article in
question, entitled “Chicago Workers Plan Big May Day Demonstrations,”
deals with the arrangements for the May Day Parade of the Chicago radical
labor organizations in 1919. It enumerates some of the organizations
which were represented in the conference which planned the demonstrations:
“Joint Board, Cloak Makers’ Union
11 branches of the Workmen’s Circle
Millinery Workers, Local Union, 47
Northwest Side Jewish Socialist Branch
The Hebrew Trades
The Brushmakers’ Union
The 13th Ward Jewish Socialist Branch
The Karl Marx Jewish Socialist Branch
Yipsel Jewish Socialist Branches 1 and 4
Carpenters’ Union, Local 504
West Side Jewish Socialist Campaign Conference
The Northwest Side Jewish Socialist Campaign Conference
The 15th Ward Campaign Committee
West Side Jewish Socialist Branch
Amalgamated Local Union, 39
Waist Makers’ Union, 100
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Bakers’ Union, 237
Capmakers’ Union, Local 5
Young People’s Progressive Dramatic Club
City Central Committee, Jewish Socialist Branches
City Central Committee, Workmen’s Circle
Douglas Park Jewish Socialist Branch”
Indeed, it can scarcely be denied that the Jewish labor organizations as
enumerated by this Socialist publication itself were in complete control
of the whole May Day parade in one of the biggest cities in the United
States.
One more fact of importance which should be mentioned is that four
Anarchists, who were convicted and sentenced to terms of twenty years
by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New
York, were Jews. Their names are: Jacob Abrams, Samuel Lippman, Hyman
Lachowsky, Mollie Stimer.
Finally, we refer to the well-known activities of Emma Goldman and
Alexander Berkman, both of whom are Jews, and who were deported on the
Soviet Ark “Buford.”
Of course, it is significant that the radical labor movement is largely
controlled by Jewish internationalists, but still more significant
appears the fact that recently several rabbis have taken a definite stand
in support of the Red movement. We shall refer here to two instances.
On October 25, 1919, the New York _Tribune_ stated that Rabbi Judah
L. Magnes had publicly announced that “he was a Bolshevik and in full
sympathy with their doctrines and ideals.” The article referred to is
entitled “Bolshevik Talk Forces Magnes Out.” Therein it is revealed that
on account of his public announcement that he was in full sympathy with
Trotzky, Rabbi Magnes was forced to resign from the American Jewish
Committee. It is important to bear in mind that at that time Rabbi Magnes
was one of the most honored members of the Jewish community. Rabbi Magnes
was deputed in 1916 to represent in Europe the American Jewish Relief
organization, The Joint Distribution Committee, which, among other
activities, solicited and distributed money and supplies to the Jews in
territories occupied by the Central Powers. Whenever there is a great
mass meeting Rabbi Magnes appears as the chief spokesman on behalf of the
Jews in New York City, as has happened several times since his expulsion
from the American Jewish Committee. Rabbi Magnes was one of the founders
of the People’s Council, which was dissolved by the United States
Government during the war. Here is a tentative enumeration of Rabbi
Magnes’s activities as stated in the _Tribune_ article above referred to:
“Dr. Magnes was one of the organizers of the American-Jewish
Committee which has been engaged in philanthropic work among
the Jews for the last fifteen years. Most of the work of the
committee was confined to countries where the people were
oppressed. Dr. Magnes has held many important posts and at one
time was Rabbi of the Temple Emanu-El. Shortly after we entered
the war he became a strong pacifist and was active in the
People’s Council.
“There was a movement started on the East Side early in the
summer to make Dr. Magnes the Socialist candidate for Congress.
The persons who attempted this move are now supporting
Congressman London for reëlection. Dr. Magnes is chairman of
the American Jewish Kehillah.”
The other instance is that of Rabbi Maxwell Silver of Temple Shaari
Zedek, Brooklyn, who, on January 8, 1920, was ousted by his congregation
early in January, 1920, because of alleged radical utterances. “It was
charged that he drew class lines and spoke of the rich as oppressors.”
(See New York _Times_, January 8, 1920.) This fact alone might not be of
great importance, but the action of the New York Association of Reformed
Rabbis, as reported in the New York daily press, is significant:
“After the dismissal of Rabbi Maxwell Silver, of Congregation
Shaari Zedek, of Brooklyn, the New York Association of
Reformed Rabbis undertook the mediation of the trouble between
the congregation and the Rabbi, and as a result pointed
out that the whole difficulty was due to an _unfortunate
misunderstanding_. Thereupon the trustees decided to recommend
the reinstatement of Rabbi Silver, and we are happy to state
that such reinstatement was ratified by the congregation after
a special meeting last night. By a special resolution the New
York Association of Reformed Rabbis expresses its confidence in
the worthiness of Rabbi Silver and also in the good intentions
of the Congregation Shaari Zedek to serve the cause of Israel.”
It is also a peculiar fact to consider that certain powerful Jewish
bankers were instrumental and active in spreading Bolshevism, which now
threatens the whole world. In this connection we refer the reader to one
of the “Sisson Documents,” published by the United States Government in
1917 under the title “German Bolshevist Conspiracy”:
On September 21, 1917, one of the leading German Spartacan
leaders, a Jew, by name of Furstenberg, wrote a letter to a
Bolshevist by the name of Raphael Scholan, who became later one
of the Bolshevist commissaries in Soviet Russia, as follows:
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 21, 1917.
“TO MR. RAPHAEL SCHOLAN, Haparanda.