When the British Army passed into Jerusalem in the memorable capture
of the city in 1917, the Protocols went in with it. A symbolic circle
was thus closed, though not in the way the Protocolists had hoped. The
man who carried the Protocols knew what they signified, and they were
carried not in triumph, but as the plans of the enemies of world
liberty.

Zionism is the best advertised of all present Jewish activities and
has exerted a greater influence upon world events than the average man
realizes. In its more romantic aspects it makes an appeal to Christian
as well as to Jew, because there are certain prophecies which are held
to concern the return of the Jews to Jerusalem. When this return takes
place, certain great events are scheduled to ensue.

Because of this admixture of the religious sentiment, it will be
rather difficult for a certain class of people to scrutinize modern
Political Zionism; they have been too well propagandized into
believing that political Zionism and the "return" promised by the
prophets are the same thing. Having succumbed to the initial confusion
of mistaking Judah for Israel they have entirely mistaken the ancient
writings that relate to these two and have made the single tribe of
Judah (whence comes the name Jew) the hub around which all history and
humanity swing. Judah was the tribe with which Israel could not live
in peace over two thousand years ago, and which has the fateful gift
of stirring up the same kind of dissension today. And yet no one ever
thought of charging the Ten Tribes of Israel with "anti-Semitism."

Zionism is challenging the attention of the world today because it is
creating a situation out of which many believe the next war will come.
To adopt a phraseology familiar to students of prophecy, it is
believed by many students of world affairs that Armageddon will be the
direct result of what is now beginning to be manifested in Palestine.

For these, if for no other reasons, the subject becomes important.

With Zionism as a dream of pious Jews this article has nothing to do.
With Zionism as a political fact, every first class government is now
compelled to have something to do. It is a bigger question than the
German indemnities or American immigration, because it lies back of
both, and is rapidly proceeding under cover of both.

It is worthy of note, if only in passing, that Zionism in the active
modern political sense took its rise racially and geographically where
Bolshevism arose, namely in Russia, and that its center, the seat of
its Inner Actions Committee, was at Berlin. There was always a close
relationship between the Zionists of Russia and the New York Kehillah,
as is evidenced by public utterances made in Russia after the
Revolution in which the Kehillah is extolled.

At the time the war was declared in 1914, the Inner Actions Committee
was spread about in various countries. For example: Dr. Schmarya
Levin, of Berlin, was in the United States and remained here. He was
Russian rabbi, German scholar, and cosmopolitan. Although his
headquarters were Berlin, he remained in the United States and became
recognized as the leader of the leaders of Zionism, until the great
Jewish shift to Versailles. Another member of the Inner Actions
Committee was one Jacobson, who was in Constantinople. "When he saw
that Constantinople could no longer be the center of Zionist politics,
he left and went to Copenhagen, Denmark, where in a neutral country he
could be of practical usefulness to the Zionists by transmitting
information and funds." (Guide to Zionism, page 80.) In fact, the
entire Inner Actions Committee, with headquarters at Berlin, moved
freely through a war-locked world, the only exceptions being Warburg
and Hantke -- and there was no need for the Berlin Warburg to move
about, for there were others who represented him.

Dr. Levin gave his sanction for the shifting of the center of Jewish
gravity from Berlin to America, and "as early as August 30, 1914, a
month after the outbreak of war, an extraordinary conference of
American Zionists was called in New York."

What this change of seat meant, has formed the subject of much
discussion. In 1914 the Jews apparently knew more about the probable
duration of the war than did the principals. It was not to be a mere
excursion through Belgium, as some fancied. There was time to dicker,
to show the value of certain Jewish support to the governments.
Germany gladly pledged the land of Palestine to the Jews, but the Jews
had already seen what Wilhelm had done in that ancient state when he
enthroned himself on the Mount of Olives. Evidently, the Allies won
the contest of making promises, for on November 2, 1917, when General
Allenby was pushing up through Palestine with his British Army, Arthur
James Balfour, the British secretary of state for foreign affairs,
issued the famous declaration approving Palestine as a national home
for the Jewish people.

"The wording of it came from the British foreign office, but the text
had been revised in the Zionist offices in America as well as in
England. The British declaration was made in the form in which the
Zionists desired it, and the last clauses were added in order to
appease a certain section of timid anti-Zionist opinion." (Guide to
Zionism, pages 85-86.)

Now please read the declaration and note the italicized clauses just
referred to:

"His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in
Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their
best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being
clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the
civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or
the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

Zionism is of particular interest, not merely because of the quarrels
which have arisen among the leaders over money -- it is the war of
"interest" against "capital" -- but also because of the light it
throws on the two great armies of Jews in the world, the way in which
they use their power where they can, and the trouble that always
embroils the nations which become Jewish tools.

People sometimes ask why Jewry, which is capitalistic, should favor
Bolshevism, which is the announced enemy of capital. It is an
interesting question. Why should a New York Jewish financier, an
officer of the government of the United States, help finance a "Red"
publication which even our tolerant government cannot stomach? In
addition to the fact that it is only "Gentile capital" that is
attacked, the answer is that the Jew who has fallen for the worship of
the Golden Calf is anxious to keep in the good graces of the Jew of
the East -- the Mongolian Jews -- who are rampaging against orderly
systems of society. It is quite useful when there is a revolution in
Paris to have the 600 houses which you may own spared by the
incendiary mobs -- as were Rothschild's houses. Zionism has been one
of the subjects upon which Western and Eastern Jew can unite. Indeed,
it was the Eastern Jew that compelled the Western Jew to take a
favorable stand on this matter. The Jewish gentlemen who are receiving
the freedom of our cities today in their various aspects as "German"
and "British" scientists are Eastern Jews. They have come to a contest
with the Jews of America on the question of Money. The Jews of America
have smothered some very ugly charges. The Jews of the East, more
recently of Germany or England, are not likely to be browbeaten by the
moneybags of Jewish New York, for the Eastern type of Jew knows of a
situation in which money is the most useless thing in the world -- and
that is why he is feared and favored by Western Jewry of the Golden
Calf.

The Jewish defenders are just now capitalizing the "split" in Jewry.
The real split will come when Jews of wisdom begin to support the
attempts which have been made to liberate the Jews from their leaders.
This internal squabble means nothing but a squabble of leaders; but
when the Jews themselves divide, one side for twentieth century light
and the destruction of the class power of selfish leaders, then may we
look up hopefully. When the Jew recognizes the honesty of his critics
and the righteousness of what they charge, then will there be a
"split," but not before. The division in Jewry as evidenced by the
contempt of the revolutionary party for the financial party, and as
even more strongly evidenced by the fear of the revolutionary party by
the financial party, is being brought about by the insincerity of the
Western Jew's Zionism. The Western Jew says that the United States is
the Promised Land, profits and interest are the "milk and honey" and
New York is Jerusalem; the Jew of Russia has another view.

A knowledge of Political Zionism is worth while also as an
authoritative illustration of what the Jew does when he is in power.
Heretofore there has been Russia to illustrate this, but now there is
Palestine. With every fact against them, with every traveler and
observer giving them the lie direct, there are still Jewish spokesmen
and poor befuddled "Gentile fronts" who insist that Bolshevism is not
Jewish and that Russia is not now governed by Jews. It is just this
constant denial of facts, this failure to use their opportunity to be
honest, that is going to be the judgement of Jewish leaders.
Bolshevism all over the world, not in Russia only, but in New York, in
Chicago, in New Orleans, in San Francisco, is Jewish.

However, there is no need further to insist upon that, except
occasionally to add confirmatory illustrations of it. More to the
present point is Palestine. It will be very difficult for the most
irresponsible Jewish spokesman to deny that Palestine is Jewish. The
government is Jewish, the plan of procedure is Jewish, the methods
used are Jewish. Does anyone rise to deny that? Scarcely.

Very well, Palestine will do to illustrate the genius of the Jew when
he comes to power.

Professor Albert T. Clay, in the Atlantic Monthly (will anyone declare
that this long-established and thoroughly respectable Boston
publication is "anti-Semitic"?) warns us that the information about
Palestine which we receive in America comes to us through the Jewish
Telegraph Service (which is the Associated Press of world-wide Jewry)
and the Zionist propaganda. "The latter," he says, "with its harrowing
stories of pogroms in Europe, and its misrepresentations of the
situation in the Near East, has been able to awaken not a little
sympathy for the Zionist propaganda."

This propaganda of pogroms -- "thousands upon thousands of Jews
killed" -- amounts to nothing except as it illustrates the gullibility
of the press. No one believes this propaganda, and governments
regularly disprove it. But the fact that it continues indicates that
something besides facts is necessary to keep the scheme going.

In Jerusalem, as this is being written, martial law is proclaimed.
There has been a struggle between the native inhabitants, whom the
Balfour declaration sought to protect, and the new-come Jews. As in
the famous Easter disorders of the last year, the wounded in the
hospitals show that the Jews were armed and the natives fought with
whatever weapons they could find on the spot; the conclusion of all
impartial observers under the circumstances being that the Jews
prepared for and sought the fight with unprepared natives.

The mark of disorder perpetrated by the Jews is all over the place,
the "persecuted" turned persecutor, and lest this should be charged to
the general wildness of the people in Palestine let it be said that
the rioters were only expressing in deeds what cultivated American and
English Jews have expressed in words -- namely, that the lawful
inhabitants of the land ought to be driven out, in spite of
governmental promises to the contrary. One of the first Easter
rioters, Jabotinsky, whom the British authorities sentenced to 15
years in prison, was released immediately upon the arrival of Sir
Herbert Samuel and is now traveling in state and is talked of as a
possible successor to Sir Herbert, although he is originally one of
the Russian Bolsheviki come down to practice the gentle arts of that
tribe in Palestine.

The government is Jewish. Sir Herbert Samuel is High Commissioner,
representing the power of the British Government, which holds the
mandate over Palestine. The head of the judicial department, who
appoints the judges of Palestine, is a Jew. Christian or Moslem judges
who do not give the Jews a shade the better of the proceedings are
ousted -- a condition not unknown in New York. Chaim Weizman is head
of the department of works -- he is a Jew, now traveling in this
country and having the polite lie passed to him occasionally by Judge
Julian W. Mack. In fact, at the heads of all departments are Jews, a
former New York Jew being head of the department of immigration, who
has made splendid rules for the protection of Palestine from an
undesirable class of Jews, rules so well adapted for the purpose that
if the Congress of the United States should adopt them the cry of
"persecution" would girdle the world.

It is to be noted that the Jewish government of Palestine is very much
like that of Russia -- mostly foreign. Trotsky came from the East Side
of New York. A gentleman recently released from Bolshevik custody told
the writer that the governor of his prison was an ordinary Jew who
formerly lived on Fourteenth street, Detroit. Practically every big
American city is represented in the Bolshevik government of Russia.
There is another full-fledged government waiting in this country for
service wherever necessary.

The methods being adopted to get the land are such as will fill the
world with indignation once the world fully understands what is being
done. And that it is done with the knowledge and approval of the
Zionist Commissioner is indicated by the fact that he suspended the
activities of the British officer who endeavored to stop the abuse. It
was the old game of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest to
people hard pressed by war and crop failure, and then seizing their
land when they could not pay. The bank that did this was the Anglo-
Palestine Bank, a Zionist concern. This British officer, to save the
people and the land, made arrangements with a British bank to lend
them money at 6 1/2 per cent, with five years to pay. If payment
failed, the land was to go to the government for redistribution, not
to the Zionist bank. This was the humane plan which the Zionist
Commissioner forbade, whereupon the British officer resigned. Some
effort was afterward made to redress the terrible act, but there it
stands as the well-considered action of Jewry in power.

Then follows what is described by every impartial observer as an
"arrogant" attempt to expropriate everything in sight. In Russia it
could have been done very easily under the plea of "nationalization,"
but there was Great Britain whose laws do not condone theft. The only
schools that have been established in Jerusalem have been built and
manned by the so-called "Gentiles," although the Jews of Jerusalem
have been the pensioners of world-wide Jewry for centuries. As long
ago as 1842 Dr. Murray M'Cheyne noted that the Jerusalem Jews cared
nothing for schools because their children were only growing up into
pensioners too. But Christians, with a warm regard for the Holy City,
set about to improve the miserable condition of the Jewish
inhabitants, and thus it came that at the time of the Zionist invasion
a considerable number of Jewish children were in attendance at the
schools. The new-come Zionist leaders demanded that the best of the
schools be given up to them. Of course, this was refused.

"The Council of Jerusalem Jews" then caused it to be published in the
Hebrew daily that parents who did not withdraw their children from the
schools would be punished. And now look at the typical punishments
threatened:

If any parent refused whose name was on the list of the American
Relief Fund, the relief would be withdrawn. An interesting bit of news
to subscribers to that fund.

Doctors would be forbidden to visit the families that had children
attending the enlightened schools.

Their names would be sent to the blacklist at the places where
circumcision was performed, so that new-born descendants of the
recalcitrants might be refused the rite of Moses.

They would be denied all share in Zionist benefits or funds.

If they were in business, they would be boycotted.

If they were workmen, they could get no work.

"Anyone who refused, let him know that it was forbidden for him to be
called by the name of Jew. They will be fought by all lawful means.
Their names will be put upon a monument of shame and their deeds made
to reproach them to the last generation. If they are supported, their
support will cease. If they are rabbis, they will be moved far from
their office. They shall be put under the ban and persecuted, and all
the world will know that in this justice there has been no mercy."

It is the Jewish Bolshevist spirit all over again, that spirit which
so many people have been vainly endeavoring to reconcile with the
Russian temperament -- because it is so un-Russian.

It is tyranny, and not the tyranny of strength, but of meanness and
darkness. It is now perfectly clear what was meant by Dr. McInnis, who
is Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, when he said: "The emigrants so far
brought in (to Palestine, under the Commission) did not include many
respectable English Jews; but they did include a great number of
Russians, Poles and Rumanians, many of them thoroughly Bolshevik in
their attitude to the government."

If this spirit obtains at the beginning of a movement which the
Christian world has been taught by propaganda to regard as a
profoundly religious and respectable exodus, it burdens the
imagination to forecast what will be done in a period of full and
unquestioned rule.

Observing and weighing the events and tendencies of Jewish rule thus
far in Palestine, it is not difficult to see the purpose in it all.
The Jews still distrust their ability to make a State. They do not
distrust the world's willingness to let them have a State; indeed, it
is amazing how naturally the Jews place confidence in that portion of
the world they have always affected to despise. But deep-seated in the
Jew is a distrust of himself. He doesn't know how his people will
contrive to live together. He doesn't know how they will contrive to
drop the principles and practices which are so destructive of social
comity elsewhere. And he feels that, patient as the mandatory power
may be now, it is doubtful how long that patience will hold out under
the blunders and brutalities that will be inseparable from Zionist
rule, if any deductions can be drawn from the facts at hand.
Therefore, feeling that the time may be short, he is endeavoring by
such actions as interference with the cultural question, with the
racial rights if the natives, and by such schemes as the land-grabbing
device described above, to get so strong a hold on the situation as
will seriously complicate it whenever Great Britain shall feel it to
be her duty to the world to step in and attempt to bring some kind of
order out of the chaos.

It begins to be very clear that Jewish nationalism will develop along
the line of enmity to the rest of the world. Already the dangerous
proposal has been made to organize a Jewish army for the protection of
the Suez Canal. Instead of thinking of roads and farmsteads, of
vineyards and oil presses, of schools and sanitary villages, the Jews
are thinking of elevating themselves into the military power that
shall stand between East and West on that most strategic strip of
ground in the world. The whole situation is fraught with danger, and
men who wish well to the Jews are alarmed and saddened by the
prospect.

There are three elements of danger in the situation as it exists
today: the overwhelmingly predominant Bolshevik element that is being
poured into Palestine; the intense, egotistic and challenging
nationalism that Zionists exhibit even before they get a potato patch
-- the taste for world politics and world power; and the racial
confusion which now exists in Palestine.

These combined are dynamite. The first is more vital than many
realize. Already the Jews who have gone to Palestine at great
sacrifice and for pious reasons are complaining that instead of the
Psalms of David the people are singing songs of the Red Revolution,
and instead of meeting for instruction and prayer there are riotous
gatherings extolling Trotsky as Messiah and the Soviet as the kingdom
of heaven. On the third anniversary of the Jewish Revolution in
Russia, the streets of Jerusalem were placarded with sentiments of
blasphemy and treason, and May Day this year was devoted to the
exaltation of anarchy.

This fact will be of interest to students of prophecy. It is as
certain as any human forecast can be that this sort of thing will not
be permitted to go forward in the face of the world. It is
unimaginable that the nations responsible to humanity for the conduct
of that important strip of territory will remain supine while
Bolshevism spreads under the false pretense of a religious movement
favored by Christendom. An attempt will be made to stop it. The Jews
of Palestine will turn on their sponsor nation. The Jews of Russia
will come down to help. Great Britain and perhaps the United States
will defend the old pure vision of a Jerusalem redeemed. Then will
come to pass the prophecy of Zachariah:

"And Judah also shall fight against Jerusalem."

Judah also! It is a thought to make a Jew bethink himself where the
lawlessness of the East and the materialism of the West will lead him.
Against Jerusalem! What a terrible ending of Judah's present mad
delusion.

Palestine has been called the center of the earth. It is. The power
that controls Palestine controls the world. Although exercising no
sovereignty over the land itself, Great Britain's control of adjacent
waters and of Egypt and Persia and India forms the key of her power.
The white race has thus far been the Chosen People to whom the
dominion of the earth has been given. Palestine is the key to world
military strategy and trade. In question 12 of the Questions and
Answers published by the department of education, Zionist Organization
of America, this occurs:

12. What are the commercial possibilities of Palestine?

The location of Palestine between the three continents favors
foreign trade.

All this lends itself to dreams of future glory, and many Christian
friends of the Jew have pleased themselves by conceiving an universal
Hague at Jerusalem and a new social order going out to bless the
nations from Zion. It is the idea conveyed by men like A. A. Berle in
books like "The World Significance of a Jewish State." All this might
be expected if the Jews of today were Old Testament people, anxious to
re-establish the social laws of Moses, which are conceded to be the
best safeguards ever devised against pauperism on the one hand and
plutocracy on the other. But Palestine has not fallen into the hands
of that sort of Jews. Before the dream can be fulfilled Judah must
come to himself, as he has not yet, for from of old the Word is --

"And Judah also shall fight against Jerusalem."

The racial situation in Palestine just now is very delicate. Americans
do not understand it. The Zionist propaganda has always been accepted
on the assumption that Palestine is the Jews' land and that they only
need help to go back. It is an historical and political fact that
Palestine has not been the Jews' land for more than 2,000 years. There
are in Palestine 500,000 Moslems, 105,000 Christians and 65,000 Jews.
The industry of the land is agriculture. Engaged in this are 69 per
cent of the Moslems, 46 per cent of the Christians and 19 per cent of
the Jews. Neither numerically nor industrially have they held the
land. Yet, as the result of a war bargain, it is handed over to them
as regardless of the native inhabitants as if Belgium had been handed
over to Mexico. Many of the natives are Semites, like the Jews, but
they do not want the Jews among them.

That is a strange fact for those who use the term "anti-Semitism"; why
do real Semites also dislike the Jews? Surely Semites are not victims
of "anti-Semitism."

The Balfour Declaration, as well as the terms of the Mandate adopted
at San Remo, recognized the rights of the native races. Indeed,
everyone who knows about the people who have been native to Palestine
for 2,000 years recognizes their rights, everybody except the Jews.
Bethlehem was a Christian town, as befits the birthplace of Christ.
Yet the Jews have contrived that 2,000 Bethlehemites leave Palestine
rather than submit to what they see coming. The other races are not so
placid about it, hence the trouble. It is now that the last clauses,
added as the Zionist historian declares, "in order to appease a
certain section of anti-Zionist opinion," begin to get a meaning for
the reader. Was the purpose only to quiet disturbing questions until
all the arrangements were made? Evidently. It was then a dishonest
appeasement! Such may have been the Zionists' intention, but no one
need expect perjury on the part of the responsible nations. The end of
the matter will see those last clauses redeemed by honest application
of their terms to the people involved.

General Allenby promised those native races of Palestine that their
rights would be respected. So did the Balfour Declaration. So did the
San Remo Conference. So also did President Wilson in the twelfth of
his Fourteen Points.

But Judah says, "Let them get out!" "The last clauses were added in
order to appease a certain section of timid anti-Zionist opinion."

"Let them get out!" says Israel Zangwill. "We must gently persuade
them to 'trek.' After all, they have all Arabia with its million
square miles, and Israel has not a square inch. There is no particular
reason for the Arabs to cling to those few kilometers. To fold their
tents and silently to steal away is their proverbial habit; let them
exemplify it now." Aside from the falsity of using the term "Arab,"
there is the delightful Jewishness of it -- let them give it up to us,
we want it! Americans have been in their land less than 150 years as a
nation and there is China and Arabia or Siberia for us to go to if we
should want to, but we prefer our own country, and so do the native
races of Palestine, who have dwelt there for 2,000 years.

The watchmen on the towers of the world are alarmed at what seems
brewing in Judah's geographical caldron.

[THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT, issue of 28 May 1921]

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