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disposal of the blood of the carcass) much better than does the Jewish

method. This is the only instance where even remotely the religion of the_..-

Jews has been touched.

The fact is that while there is no "religious persecution" of the

Jews, there is very much real religious persecution by the Jews. That is

one of the outstanding characteristics of organized Jewish life in the

United States, its active, unceasing, powerful and virulent attacks upon

any and all forms of Christianity which may chance to come to public

notice. Now and again we hear of outbreaks of sectarian bigotry between

Catholics and Protestants, but these are not to be compared with the

steady, relentless, alert, anti-Christian activity of the Jewish

organizations. There are doctrinal disputes within the Christian Churches,

but none that challeng~ the basis of Christianity itself; organized Judaism,

however, is not content with doctrinal disputation, but enlists its vast

commercial and political power against everything that it regards as, in

its own words, "Christological manifestations."

No President of the United States has yet dared to take his inaugural

oath on the open pages of the New Testament-the Jew would denounce

him. Various governors of American states, having used the word

"Christian" in their Thanksgiving proclamation, have been obliged to

teach Americanism in our cities because it held that Christianity and good

citizenship were synonymous!

No public man in America has ever given public evidence of h is

Christian faith without rebuke from the Jews. Not only do the Jews

disagree with Christian teaching-which is their right and no o ne

questions it-but they excise it on demand of Lhe Jews. Everything that

would remind the child in school that he is living in the midst of a

Christian civilization, in a nation declared by its Supreme Court to be

founded on the Christ ia n principles, has been ordered out of the public

schools or. Jewish demand. In a nation and at a time when a majority of

Jews can print every year a record of the apologies they have extorted

from public officials for "having inadvertently used the term 'Christian',"

it is desirable that this charge of "religious persecution" should be placed

where it belongs.

The Jew glories in religious persecution as the American glories in

patriotism. Religious prejudice is the Jews' chief expression of their own

patriotism. It is the only well-organized active and successful form o

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religious prejudice in the country because they have succeeded in pulling

off the gigantic trick of making not their own attitude, but any opposition

to it bear the stigma of "prejudice" and "persecution." That is why the

Jew uses these terms so frequently. He wants to label the other fellow

first. That is why any investigation of the Jewish Question is so wickedly

advertised as anti-Semitism-the Jew knows the advantage of labeling the

other man.

This theme, "religious persecution, " will not be found anywhere

within the whole range of the Jewish Question, except on the Jewish side.

There is in the United States a religious prejudice , but it is strictly

Yiddish. If the Christian population bothered one-hundredth-thousandth

part as much about Jewish religion as the Jews bother about Christian

observances the whole fabric of Talmudic teaching would be consumed

in the bright light to which general attention would bring it, the bright

light from which it has always been concealed . Sheer analysis in the

interest of mental health would compel the 'Jewish people to abandon the

darkness which holds -them now. Jewish Talmudism owes its existence

today to the indifference with· which it is regarded. This is the far

opposite extreme of "religious persecution."

Religious prejudice is just as unpleasant to write about as it i s to

experience in any other way. It is totally contrary to the genius of the

American and the Anglo-Saxon. We have always regarded religion as a

matter of conscience. To believe as he win is part of every man ·s

fundamental liberty. Holding these hereditary principles. one chooses to

study that active stream of influence in America which is known as the

Jewish stream, and immediately upon doing so. on~ finds himself cl assed

with the bigots and torturers ofother times .

It is time to show that the cry of "bigot" is raised mostly by bigots.

There is a religious prejudice in this country , there is indeed a rel ig ious

persecution . There is a forcible showing aside of the religious libe r ti es of

a majority of the people. and this prej udice and persecution a1id use of

force is Jewish and nothing but Jewish . ·

A study of history and of contemporary Jewish journalism shows

that Jewish prejudice and persecution is a continuous phenomenon

wherever the Jews have obtained power; and that in neither action nor

word has any disability placed upon the Jew equaled the disabilities he

has placed and still contemplates placing upon non-Jews. There is no