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the same. If they have not yet been able to do in America what they have

done in Eastern Europe, it is because of the greater dissemination of

information, the higher degree of intelligence, and ·particularly the wid~r ·

diffusion of the agencies of government, than ever obtained in Russia and

Eastern Europe. The power house of Communist influence and

propaganda in the United States is in the Jewish trade unions which,

almost without exception, adhere to a · Bolshevik program for the

respective industries and for the country as a whole. The fact proves

most embarrassing to the Jewish leaders in the recognized political parties

very frequently. It is bad enough that Russian Bolshevism, Communism,

should be so predominantly Jewish, but to confront the same situation in

the United States is a problem which Jewish leaders have to use much

ingenuity and deception to explain away or avoid. Yet the International

Jew of America cannot be absolved from bearing sole responsibility for

it. . Russian Bolshevism came out of the East Side of New York v:here it

was fostered by the encouragement - the religious, moral and fmancial

encouragement- of Jewish leaders. ·

Leon Trotsky (Braunstein) was an East Sider. The forces which

fostered what he stood for centered in the Kehillah and the American

Jewish Committee. Both were interested in the work he set out to do-

the overthrow of an establishment, one of the allies of the United States

in world war one. Russian Bolshevism was helped to its objective by

Jewish gold from the United States- and by the ignorance and indolence

of the Gentile citizens of the United States whose crimes of omission are

almost as grave as those of Bolshevik commission.

Now that the influence of Communism is found to be numerically

stronger here than in Russia, the fact causes no little embarrassment to

"patriotic" Jews . The big Jewish labor organizations are the direct

offspring of the Jewish Socialist"Bund of Russia. Bundists swarmed to

the United States after the abortive revolution of 1905 at which time' they

failed to put Bolshevism over in Russia, and these Bundists gave their

time to the Bolshevising of the Hebrew Trade Unions in America. An

Agitation Bureau was formed which propagated radical Socialism through

the medium of the Yiddish langu2ge. The Bundists incorporated in 1905

in New York an organization known as "The Workmen's Circle" and

"swelled the rank of the Jewish trade unions," to quote the Kehillah's

Register. After a brief attempt to propagate Socialism without reference

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to the Jewish Question, it was given up, and in 1913 a resolution was

adopted declaring that the whole purpose of the work was Jewish. This

is attributed, in the Kehillah record, to the spread of "the idea of Jewish

nationalism."

What amazes the student of the Jewish Question in the United States

is the stupidity which permitted Jewish Bolshevism to flaunt itself so

openly. The only explanation that seem at all adequate is that the Jews

never dreamed that the American people would become sufficiently

awake to challenge them. The occasional exposure of Jewish tactics in

America comes as a surprise to the Jewish leaders, and is accounted for

because they are confident they have gained too strong a grip on the

American mind to make such challenges possible.

But, the Jewish leaders must admit that the Jewish Question does not

consist in American citizens uncovering the facts and helping other

citizens to become aware of them: the Jewish Question inheres in the

facts themselves and in Jewish ·responsibility for the facts.

If it is "anti-Semitism" to say that Communism in the United States

is Jewish, so be it; but to the unprejudiced mind it will look very like

Americanism.

WILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING

ARMAGEDDON?

W hen the British Army passed into Jerusalem in the memorable

capture of the city in 1917, the Protocols went in with it. A

symbolic circle was thus closed, though not in the way the Protocolists

had hoped. The man who carried the Protocols knew what they signified,

and they were carried not in triumph but as the plans of the enemies of

world liberty.

Zionism is the best advertised of all present Jewish activities and has

exerted a greater intluence upon world events than the average man

realizes. In its more romantic aspects it makes an appeal to Christians as

well as to Jews, because there are certain prophecies which are held to

concern the return of the Jews to Jerusalem. When this return takes place,

· certain great events are scheduled to ensue.

Because of this admixture of the "religious" sentiment, it is

sometimes difficult for a certain class of people to scrutinize modem

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Political Zionism. They have been too well propagandized into believing

that political Zionism and the "return" promised by the prophets are the

same -· thing. Having succumbed to the initial confusion of mistaking

Judah for Israel they have entirely mistaken the ancient writings that

relate to these two and have made the tribe of Judah (whence comes the

name of Jew) the hub around which all history and humanity swing.

Judah was the single tribe with which Israel could not live in peace over

2,000 years ago, and which has the baleful gift of stirring up the same

kind of dissension today. Yet no one ever thought of charging the Ten

Tribes of Israel with "anti-Semitism."

Zionism is challenging the attention of the world today because it is

creating a situation out of which many believe the ·next war will come.*

To adopt phraseology familiar to students of prophecy, it is believed

by many students of world affairs that Armageddon will be the direct

result of what is now beginning to be manifested in Palestine.

With Zionism as ·a dream of pious Jews this investigation has

nothing to do. With Zionism as a political fact, every government is now

compelled to have something to do . It is a bigger question than any other

world question, it lies at the back of all world problems, large or small,

national or international, and is rapidly proceeding under cover of many

other interests.

It is worthy of note that Zionism in the active modern political sense

took its rise racially and geographically where Bolshevism arose, namely,

in Russia, and that there was always a close relationship between the

Zionists of Russia and the New York Kehillah, .as was evidenced by

public utterances made in Russia after the revolution in which the

Kehillah was extolled .

At the time war was declared in 1914, the Zionist Inner Actions

Committee was spread about in various countries. For example: Dr.

Schmarya Levin, of Berlin, was in the United States and remained there.

He was a Russian rabbi, German scholar, and cosmopolitan. Although,

in 1914, the Zionist center and seat of Inner Actions Committee was at

Berlin, he remained in the United States and became recognized as the