Reflections on Anti-Jewish Sentiment in the U.S.

Many things have helped turn the purely social rejection of Jews in the U.S., visible in Jew-free clubs and hotel signs reading “Only for Gentiles,” into a swelling wave. The fact that nearly all atomic spies were Jews, that the hard core of the Communist Party and its spy network in the U.S. is Jewish, the ambiguity that Zionism has created so that the American Jew stands torn between loyalty to the U.S. and to Israel, the disastrous influence that Jews decisively wielded over Roosevelt’s catastrophic policies and his backing of the Soviets, the outrage at the shameless lies and fraudulent films with which Jews have poisoned relations among the peoples of Europe, and the defilement of the American name by Jewish torturers in American uniform—all this has made a growing share of the American people distrustful and hostile toward the Jews. In this way the Jews themselves have helped rouse an American people that until now remained naive about the Jewish question. The methods by which the Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith [“Sons of the Covenant”] Order in the U.S. muzzles books, writers and poets and has set itself up as a virtual thought police were bound to stir thinking Americans into rising anger.

Survey the opening freedom struggle in the U.S., and one is struck by how excellently the American publications are documented. In “fact-finding” the young American movement built itself a solid base from the start. Yet it suffers from other birth defects that may one day prove fatal. A storm often begins in the sky no larger than a man’s hand and can still grow into a tornado. A switch set only a few centimeters wrong can send the whole train off the rails.

The movement against Jewish rule in the U.S. today has three wrong switch settings.

People try to push Judaism back from a Christian foundation. They labor to prove that Jesus was not a “Jew” but a “Judean.” Yet because Christianity rests on the wholly Jewish Old Testament and the strongly Jewish-tinged mythological novels of the New Testament that we call the Gospels, whose novel-like character has long been established, one cannot resist Judaism from this base but stands inside it. And Jesus himself, whether called “Jew,” “Galilean,” or “Judean,” was a pious Jew in religious terms. Any fight launched from Christian ground against the rule of the Bible’s “chosen people” is therefore lost from the outset, because it is fought on soil that no longer holds.

This biblicism leads to open scientific errors. North American and lately also Arab sources want to see in today’s mass of Jewry not descendants of the biblical people or temporary dwellers in Palestine, but descendants of the East-Turkish Khazars. It is true that the royal house and part of the Khazar people (by no means all tribes; two purely pagan Khazar tribes that refused conversion to Judaism joined the Magyars, and their blood lives on in the Hungarian Volk) adopted the Jewish faith. But the advocates of Khazar descent for today’s Eastern Jews overlook that the Khazars as a Volk were almost completely destroyed in the fight against the likewise East-Turkish Pechenegs. The terrible Kangli tribes of the Pecheneg confederation, before whom even the warlike Magyars withdrew from the steppe between the Ural and the Caspian first to the Danube mouth and then over the Carpathians into present-day Hungary, mercilessly slit the throats of and wiped out the Khazars. If any noteworthy remnant of the Khazars had survived, today’s Yiddish would have inherited substantial East-Turkish words and unmistakably Turkish grammatical constructions. That is not the case. Yiddish is an old Judeo-German of the fourteenth century, heavily semitized in grammar through Torah and Talmud study and shot through with Hebrew and Aramaic plus some Polish and Russian words. The bulk of Eastern Jews traces back to the emigration from Germany after the great expulsion of 1348–49 in the Main and Rhine valleys, when the craft guilds everywhere drove the Jews out of the cities as usurers and dealers in stolen and shoddy goods, and King Casimir the Great of Poland threw open his kingdom to them for settlement of the newly conquered “Red Prussian” (East Galician) lands, granting such privileges that Poland, to its lasting harm, became for centuries the “Jewish paradise.” Even if some Khazars once escaped the Kangli knife, those remnants had long since vanished into later steppe peoples—the Polovtsians, Mongols and Tatars—by the time Eastern Jewry took shape. Traits that recall a Turkic people are scarcely found among today’s Eastern Jews, even when a family happens to call itself Kaganovich after the Khazar royal title Khakan.

This theory that Eastern Jews descend from the Khazars is not only wrong. It is dangerous, not only because it smears the Turkic peoples who today inside and along the Asian borders of the Soviet Union are the fiercest enemies of the Soviets, but because it leads to a false reading of the Jewish character by searching among Jews for typically Turkish traits: the spirit of conquest, plain honesty, primitive bravery and loyal warriorhood, and simplicity of thought—which is completely false.

The anti-Jewish movement in the U.S. has no solution ready, just as National Socialism had none. It wanted to end Jewish rule over Germany and to “get rid of” the Jews; it achieved the emigration of the well-to-do Jews who then became still more dangerous from abroad, and it kept the mass of the small, who were often helpless and fairly harmless. When these became an internal threat in wartime, it began transporting them away and slid onto the path of fateful severities. Anti-Jewish forces in the U.S. likewise want either to break Jewish predominance in their country or to break Zionism and assimilate the rest—yet this has never succeeded with any people since Jewry began and will not succeed in the U.S. either. Here too lies the basic error in Senator Jack B. Tenney’s brilliantly documented book Zion’s Fifth Column: he treats Zionism as a kind of disease that must be eliminated. The Jews are to remain religiously Jews in the U.S. but otherwise assimilate to the Americans.

In reality Zionism itself holds a justified core. The Jewish people needs a land of its own where it can live in its own way. Israel is too small for that and cannot be enlarged without harming the Arabs still more. One could, however, give Israel a “colony,” for which southern Madagascar, only thinly settled by the Negro tribes of the Sakalava (in the north live the numerous Malay Hova and many French settlers), would serve. One could also consider the former German Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land in New Guinea, where space is plentiful. Australia, itself underpopulated, has no need of this land; the Dutch, who have always declared their sympathy for the Jewish character, would be the neighbors, and a dense Jewish population there would at the same time form a shield for Australia against Chinese migration from the north. The native Papuan population is insignificant and could be pushed into the Dutch portion.

In any case the Jewish question needs a constructive solution. Intellectual gagging of the non-Jewish peoples by organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, and periodic desperate uprisings of peoples ruled by the Jews that are then bloodily strangled again in the name of “humanity” and “democracy,” will never solve it. Give them a truly sufficient land and let them go there. And let them release the other peoples. That would be a positive solution!

Original Title: Nachdenkliches zur Judengegnerschaft in den U.S.A.

Attributed Author: Ralph Miller

“Der Weg” Issue: Volume 8, Issue 8 (August 1954)

Page(s): 583-585 [Scan LINK]

Der Weg - El Sendero is a German- and Spanish-language magazine published by Dürer-Verlag in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Germans with ties to the defeated Third Reich.

Der Weg ran monthly issues from 1947 to 1957, with official sanction from Juan Perón’s Government until his overthrow in September 1955.

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