Moses Hess, one of the historic figures through whom the whole

Jewish Program has flowed down from its ancient sources to its modern

agents, wrote a book entitled _..Rome and Jerusalem" in which he stated

the whole matter with clearness and force:

"The Jews are something more than mere followers of a religion,

namely they are a race, a brotherhood, a nation." (p .71)

"A Jew belongs to his race and consequently also to Judaism, in

spite of the fact that he or his ancestors have become apostates."

(pp. 97-98)

"Every Jew is, whether he likes it or not, solidly united with the

entire nation." (p. 163)

"Jewish religion is, above all, Jewish patriotism." (p.61)

Louis D. Brandeis, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United

States and world leader of the Zionist movement, wrote in his book

"Zionism and the American: Jews":'

"Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of councils, our

own instinct and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the

term 'Jew' . "

Rabbi Morris Joseph, sometime of the West London Synagogue of

British Jews, writes in his book "Israel a Nation":

"Israel is assuredly a great ·nation… Israel is recognized as a nation

by those who see it; no one could possibly mistake it fcir a sec t. To

deny Jewish nationality you must deny the existence of the Jew."

The Jewish barrister, Bertram B. Benas, writes in "Zionism -th e

National Jewish Movement":

"The Jewish entity is essentially the entity of a People

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Leon Simon, a brilliant and impressive Jewish scholar and writer,

makes an important study of the question of "religion and nationality,"

in his volume, "Studies in Jewish Nationalism." He makes out a case for

the proposition that the religion of the Jews is Nationalism, and that

Nationalism is an integral part of their religion:

"The Messianic Age means for the Jews not merely the

establishment of peace on earth and good will to men but the

universal recognition of the Jew and his God." (p. 14)

"Judaism has no message of salvation for the individual soul as

Christianity has; all its ideas are bound up with the existence of the

Jewish nation." (p. 20)

"The idea that Jews are a religious sect, precisely parallel to

Catholics and Protestants, is nonsense." (p. 34)

Arthur D. Lewis, a Jewish writer, in his "The Jews a Nation," also,

bases nationality on the racial element:

"The Jews were originally a nation, and have retained more than

most nations one of the elements of nationality-namely, the race

element; this may be proved, of course, by the common sense test

of their distinguishability. You can more easily see that a Jew is a

Jew than that an Englishman is an Englishman."

The idea that the Jews comprise a nation is the most common idea

of all-among Jews. Not oniy a nation with a past, but a nation with a

future. More than that-not oniy a nation but a Super-Nation. We can go

still further on the authority of Jewish statements we can say that the

future form of the Jewish Nation will be a kingdom.

Eikan N. Adier says:

"No serious politician today doubts that our people have a political

future."