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Our standard of living is so low that we create your slums and sweat industries,

and so high that we crowd you out of your best residential sections. We shirk our

patriotic duty in wartime because we are pacifists by nature and tradition, and we

are the arch-plotters of universal wars and the chief beneficiaries of those wars

(see "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.")

"

We are at once the founders and leading adherents of capitalism and the chief

perpetrators of the rebellion against capitalism. Surely, history has nothing like us

for versatility! And, oh! I almost forgot the reason of reasons. We are the stiff-

necked people who never accepted Christianity, and we are the criminal people

who crucified its founder.

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But I tell you, you are self-deceivers. You lack either the self-knowledge or the

mettle to face the facts squarely and own up to the truth. You resent the Jew not

because, as some of you seem to think, we crucified Jesus but because we gave

him birth. Your real quarrel with us is not that we have rejected Christianity but

that we have imposed it upon you! Your loose, contradictory charges against us

are not a patch on the blackness of our proved historic offense. You accuse us of

stirring up revolution in Moscow. Suppose we admit the charge. What of it?

Compared with what Paul the Jew of Tarsus accomplished in Rome, the Russian

upheaval is a mere street brawl. You make much noise and fury about the undue

Jewish influence in your theaters and movie palaces. Very good; granted your

complaint is well founded. But what is that compared to our staggering influence

in your churches, your schools, your laws and your governments,and the

very thoughts you think every day? A clumsy Russian forges a set of papers and

publishes them in a book called "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," which

shows that we plotted to bring on the late World War. You believe that book. All

right. For the sake of argument, we will underwrite every word of it. It is genuine

and authentic. But what is that beside the unquestionable historical conspiracy

which we have carried out, which we have never denied because you never had

the courage to charge us with it, and of which the full record is extant for anybody

to read?

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If you really are serious when you talk of Jewish plots, may I not direct your

attention to one worth talking about? What use is it wasting words on the alleged

control of your public opinion by Jewish financiers, newspaper owners and movie

magnates, when you might as well justly accuse us of the proved control of your

whole civilization by the Jewish Gospels?

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You have not begun to appreciate the real depth of our guilt. We are intruders.

We are disturbers. We are subverters. We have taken your natural world, your

ideals, your destiny, and played havoc with them. We have been at the bottom

not merely of the latest Great War but of nearly all your wars, not only of the

Russian but of every other major revolution in your history. We have brought

discord and confusion and frustration into your personal and public life. We

are still doing it. No one can tell how long we shall go on doing it.

"

Look back a little and see what has happened. Nineteen hundred years ago you

were an innocent, care-free, pagan race. You worshipped countless Gods and

Goddesses, the spirits of the air, of the running streams and of the woodland.

You took unblushing pride in the glory of your naked bodies. You carved images

of your gods and of the tantalizing human figure. You delighted in the combats of

the field, the arena and battle-ground. War and slavery were fixed institutions in

your systems. Disporting yourselves on the hillsides and in the valleys of the

great outdoors, you took to speculating on the wonder and mystery of life and

laid the foundations of natural science and philosophy. Yours was a noble,

sensual culture, unirked by the prickings of a social conscience or by any

sentimental questionings about human equality.

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Who knows what great and glorious destiny might have been yours if we had left

you alone. But we did not leave you alone. We took you in hand and pulled down

the beautiful and generous structure you had reared, and changed the whole

course of your history. We conquered you as no empire of yours ever subjugated

Africa or Asia. And we did it all without armies, without bullets, without blood or

turmoil, without force of any kind. We did it solely by the irresistible might of our

spirit, with ideas, with propaganda. We made you the willing and unconscious

bearers of our mission to the whole world, to the barbarous races of the earth, to

the countless unborn generations. Without fully understanding what we were

doing to you, you became the agents at large of our racial tradition, carrying our

gospel to the unexplored ends of the earth. Our tribal customs have become the

core of your moral code. Our tribal laws have furnished the basic groundwork of

all your august constitutions and legal systems.

Our legends and our folk tales are the sacred lore, which you croon to your infants. Our poets have filled your hymnals and your prayer - books. Our national history has become an indispensable part of your pastors and priests and scholars. Our kings, our statesmen, our prophets, our warriors are your heroes. Our ancient little country is your Holy Land. Our national literature is your Holy Bible.

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What our people thought and taught has become inextricably woven into your

very speech and tradition, until no one among you can be called educated who is

not familiar with our racial heritage. Jewish artisans and Jewish fishermen are

your teachers and your saints, with countless statues carved in their image and

innumerable cathedrals raised to their memories. A Jewish maiden is your ideal

of motherhood and womanhood. A Jewish rebel -prophet is the central figure in

your religious worship. We have pulled down your idols, cast aside your racial

inheritance, and substituted for them our God and our traditions. No conquest in

history can even remotely compare with this clean sweep of our conquest over

you.

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How did we do it? Almost by accident. Two thousand years ago nearly, in far-

off Palestine, our religion had fallen into decay and materialism. Money-changers

were in possession of the temple. Degenerate, selfish priests mulcted our people

and grew fat.

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