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America; Max Pine, also a recent consultant with the Bolshevik rulers of

Russia; David Pinski; Joseph Barondess, labor leader. The high and the

low were there; the first world war was closing, the Russian Revolution

had been won. Judge Mack, who headed the War Risk Insurance Bureau

of the United States Government, and the little leader of the reddest

group in the East End-they all met in the Kehillah, as Jews. Adolph

Ochs of the great "New York Times" together with the most feverish

scribbler on a Yiddish weekly that calls for blood and violence, all of

them of all classes, bound together in a solidarity which has been

achieved by no other people so perfectly as by Judah. Banded together

for the purpose of "protecting Jewish rights."*

THE JEWISH DEMAND FOR "RIGHTS" IN .AMERICA

W hat rights have Americans that Jews in America do not possess?

Against whom are the Jews organized and against what? What

basis is there for the cry of "persecution"? None whatever, except the

Jews' own consciousness that the course they are pursuing is due for a

check. The Jews always know that. They are not in the stream of the

world, and every little while the world finds out what Judah always

knows. The program of the Kehillah was ostensibly to assert "Jewish

rights." No Jewish rights have ever been interfered with in America.

The expression was a euphemism for a campaign to interfere with non-

Jewish rights.

The New York Kehillah is the pattern and parent Jewish community

in the United States, the visible er.tourage of the Jewish government, the

dynamo which motivates those "protests" and "mass meetings" which are

frequently heralded throughout L~e country, and the arsenal of that kind

of dark power which the Jewish leaders know so well how to use. It is

the "Whispering gallery, " where the famous whispering drives are

originated and set in motion and made to break in lying publicity over the

country. The liaison between this center of Jewish power and the affairs

of the people of the United States is made by the American Jewish

Committee. The Committee and the Kehillah are practically identiCal as

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far as the national Jewish program is concerned. Through their foreign

associations they are also identical as far as the world program is

concerned.

The United States is divided into 12 parts by the American Jewish

Committee and every State belongs to a district headed by the most

powerful and representative Jew. The Committee represents the focusing

point of the religious, racial, financial and political will of Jewry. It is

also the executive committee of the New York Kehillah. NewYorkJewry

is the dynamo of the national Jewish machinery. Its national instrument

is the American Jewish Committee. Among its direct leaders and

supporters today (1921) are the owners of powerful newspapers,

-officials in Federal, State and City administration, influential office

holders on public boards and corporations, members of the judiciary and

polic~ departments, financiers and heads of banking houses, mercantile

and manufacturing establishments, labor and politiq~.l party organizers -of

all colors ,

There are ,certain announced purposes of these ·associations, .and

there are certain purposes which are not announced. The ;mnounced

purposes may be read in printed pages; the purposes not announced may

be read in the records of attempted acts and achieved results. To keep

the record .straight let us look first at the; announced purposes of the

American Jewish Committee, then of the Kehillah; next at the line which

binds the two together; and then at the real purposes as they are to be

construed from a long list of attempts and achievements. The American

Jewish Committee, officially organized in 1906 announced itself as

incorporated for the following purposes :

1. To prevent the infraction of the civil and religious rights of the Jews

in any part of the world ..

1. To render .all lawful assistance and to take appropriate remedial

action in the event of threatened or actual invasion or restriction of

such rights or of unfavorable discrimination with respect thereto. ,

1. To secure for Jews equality of economic, social and educational

opportunities