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Antisemitism
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drivel is talked about the Jews than most subjects; both ways. The views
that all Jews are born wicked, or that all Jews should be the sacred objects
of the system, seems to me equal nonsense. I am neither an anti-Semite,
nor a sycophant of Semites. The attitude of our movement has been both
consistent and intelligible throughout. We have never attacked any man
on account of race or religion, and we never shall. But we attack any
man, whatever his race or religion, who acts against the interests of
Britain or Europe; particularly Britons who ought to know better than
to serve alien interests. It is a straightforward attitude, which has
been formed by clear principles.
Why then have we been involved in clashes with Jewish interests, and why
are so many Jews violently against us? The answers again are clear. Before
the war I believed that certain great Jewish interests were trying to
involve us in war, not in a British, but in a Jewish quarrel: I still
believe it. The reasons for our belief and for the Jewish action are equally
intelligible. It is true that a considerable number of Jews were having
a bad time in Germany, and it can also be argued that if a similar number
of Englishmen had been having an equally bad time in Germany, there would
have been a demand among many Englishmen for war against Germany. But
it is beyond question from the evidence of the period, that powerful Jewish
interests were trying to produce war between Britain and Germany. They
made it their business to start a war in the Jewish interest. I, and my
friends, made it our business to stop that war, in British interest. That
led to a head-on clash, and I still think that we were right in doing
our utmost to prevent that war.
The issues between us, and those Jews before the war, were therefore quite
simple and clear. They wanted to make a war, and we wanted to stop it.
That is the long and the short of the whole matter. There was no question
of racial persecution on our part. That was entirely contrary to our principles,
which I put on public record at the time. We British were running a great
Empire composed of many different races, and any suggestion of racial
persecution would have broken it up. For practical, as well as moral reasons,
it would have been the gravest error for us to pursue a policy of any
kind of racial persecution. The Germans had entirely different national
problems, as well as in some respects, a different national character,
which was derived from a diversity of historic experience.
Our duty then, was to hold together and develop a multi-racial Empire.
Their task, was to bring together and unite, the German peoples of one
race. Because we wanted entirely different things, there was no need whatever,
for a clash between us. The man you were apt to quarrel with, is the man
who wants the same thing you do. The closely related peoples of Britain
and Germany were by every design of nature complementary powers; a sea
power concerned with a great Empire, and a land power concerned with its
own people in a continental land mass.
The crime of those who then ruled Europe on both sides was to permit the
division of Europe, which resulted in fratricidal war. The division of
Europe was the supreme crime. It is true that the British Government actually
declared war in a quarrel which was none of our business. But the errors
of the German Government certainly assisted that act, and the consequent
catastrophe. The world combination of their enemies against them was facilitated
by the precipitate arrogance of the "patience exhausted" line,
which provides a striking and instructive contrast to the more adroit
and successful policies of characters so different as, Bismarck and Khrushchev.
But the fatal line-up against Germany was above all aided by their anti-Semitic
policy, which enabled their main enemies, in the international finance
world, to build up a front against them. These errors brought to nought,
all of the great social achievements of the National Socialist movement.
We, always rejected the nonsensical doctrine that a whole people were
born wicked, and doomed to sin and damnation from birth. This is the deep
moral and intellectual error of anti-Semitism, which has for a long period
impeded the whole movement of European renaissance; despite all its wide
diversity of form, in different countries. Neither before, during, nor
after the war, did we have anything to do with the doctrine of anti-Semitism.
Our policy now remains the same. When after the war, at the time of Suez,
some Jewish interests were trying to drag us to war, not in a British,
but Jewish quarrel, we again attacked them. We have neither fear nor favour;
we attack men not for what they are, but for what they do. When you see
in some periods little or nothing about Jews, in our speeches or publications,
it does not mean that we have changed our principles, but that at this
time we see nothing to quarrel about. We only attack a Jew, a Gentile,
an Englishman or an Eskimo, when he is doing something against the interests
of Britain.
But, reply those possessed by a fuddled anti-Semitism, many Jews are doing
something wrong all of the time. Quite right, we reply, and so are a number
of Englishmen and members of other peoples of this island. The point is,
that we are going to bring all of these damned rackets to an end, whoever
does them. Those who run the rackets will find themselves either in jail,
or out of the country, whoever they are. We shall do this by the fearless
application of existing law, which could stop this corruption, if the
government itself were not corrupt. If this is not enough, we shall ask
the people to give us the power to make new laws. We are going to smash
this corruption. That will solve the problem.
If the views of the anti-Semites were correct, then all Jews would be
caught by these laws; so they have nothing to bellyache about. But, of
course, their view is not true, because no people have what the Victorians
called "a double dose of original sin". The only effect of this
foolish opinion is to let the big rogues go scot-free.
While anti-Semites are busy pursuing the little Jews, the big villains
of all races who run international finance are sitting back and laughing
at them in the City, or Wall Street, or in kindred haunts of the usury
species. How many of them were ever caught by the Nazis ? On the contrary,
the error of some Nazis played right into their hands, and gave them the
weapons to defeat the European renaissance in every country. Now comes
again, in a newer and higher form, the renaissance of the European man;
this time not to lose, but to win.
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