62 The International Jew

heavy migration of Jews all over the world toward New York in recent

decades. It is to them what Rome is to the Catholic and what Mecca is

to the Muslim.

The Kehillah is a perfect answer to the deceptive statement that the

Jews are so dividedamong themselves as to render a concert of action

impossible. That is one of the statements made for Gentile consumption.

All experience shows, even to the most casual observer of Jewish

activities, that the capitalist and the Bolshevik, the rabbi and the union

leader, are all united under the flag of Judah ,· Touch the conservative

capitalist who is a Jew, and the red communist who is also a Jew will

spring to his defense. It may be that sometimes they love each other less,

but altogether they hate non-Jews more, and that is their common bond.

The Kehillah is an alliance, more offensive than defensive,· against the

"Gentiles. ~

. It is a str.in~e and impressive specta~le wll.ich .the Ke~ah presents,

of a people of one racial origin, with a vivid b<!Iief ip itSelf and.its future,

disregardi~g internal differences, to ·combine privately .in a powerful

organization for the racial, material and.religiou~ advancement of itS o~n. : . • . • . . l ·.; ,·

race, to the exclusion of all others.

.The American Jewish Committee came into being iri 1906. There· .

had been·a government inve~tigation ' into the "White Sla ~e Traffic,"" the

result of which was a direct set of p~blic op~on int~ chaimel~

uncompli~entary to th~ Jews, a·nd a· defensi~e inove~ent w~s begun.·

The Kehillah organized protests ·against the statement by ' General

Bingham, then Police Commissioner of the City of Ne~ York, that 50• • • ~ · - ! ' ' : . • • . • • '

per cent of the crime in the metropolis was committed by Jews. Very

soon after.ward, General Bingham di.>ap{>eared from p~blic life, a~d . a

national magazine of power arid influence, which had embarked _on a

series of.articles setting forth the Government's findings in the White

Slave investigation, was forced to discontinue after printin~ · the first

article.

The Kehillah has mapped out New York just as the American Jewish

Committee has mapped the United States, an'd practicaliy every kw

belongs to one or more lodges, secret societies, unions, 'orders,

committees and feder~tions. Th'e list is aprodigious one. The purposes

interlace and the methods dovetail in such a maimer as to bring every

phase of American life not only under the watchful eye, but under the