never anti-Semitic, but, on the contrary, manifestoes issued by the
Executive Committee of the Communist Party are often emphatically
pro-Jewish. So far as I know, there is not one exclusively Jewish
organization in the United States which is openly and consistently
fighting Radicalism. Conservative Judaism loyal to the United
States and its institutions as conceived by its founders is
unorganized and inarticulate.
When, therefore, the Jewish press protests at the injustice of
associating Jews with Bolshevism it may be legitimately answered: What
has Jewry done collectively to disassociate itself from Bolshevism?[855]
What official protests has the Jewish press uttered against any
subversive movement except when Jewish interests were threatened?[856]
Has it not, on the contrary, denounced all patriotic efforts to oppose
the forces of destruction whenever such efforts necessitated the
exposure of the corrupt elements in Jewry?
But these tactics have not been confined to the Jewish press alone. The
general press of this country, over which the Jews exercise an
increasing control, has followed the same policy. This process of
penetration began long ago on the Continent. As early as 1846 an English
missionary to the Jews in Berlin wrote:
Independently of the fifteen exclusively Jewish journals of
Germany, four of which have made their appearance since the
beginning of the present year, the daily political press of Europe
is very much under the dominion of the Jews; as literary
contributors, they influence almost every leading Continental
newspaper, and as controversy seems to be their native air, and
they bring into the field mental energies of no ordinary stamp,
they find no lack of employment, and if any literary opponent
ventures to endeavour to arrest the progress of Judaism to
political power, he finds himself held up to public notice, and
exposed to attack after attack in most of the leading journals of
Europe. Such ... was the lot of a Roman Catholic priest of Prague,
who lately wrote a pamphlet entitled _Guter Rath fur Zeit der
Noth_, directed against the advancing power of Judaism. And such is
my conviction of the extent of the participation the Jews take in
the everyday literature of Germany, that I never pass by a crowded
reading-room, but what I think I see standing behind the scenes a
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