The Jews

It's interesting to read what various people have said about the Jews over the centuries. This site collates such information: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/repute.htm. Clearly, there is a Christian bias here but the statements speak for themselves. Let's begin with that old cigar-chumping bastard, Winston Churchill. In a 1920 article regarding the Russian Revolution, he praised "the national jews" of Russia but then went on to talk about International Jews:

In violent opposition to all this sphere of Jewish efforts rise the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race. Most, if not all, of them have forsaken the faith of their forefathers, and divorced from their minds all spiritual hopes of the next world. This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxemburg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide revolutionary conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster has ably shown, a definite recognisable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworlds of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of the enormous empire. There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creating of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistic Jews. It is certainly the very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders . . . In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is even more astounding. And the prominent if not the principal part in the system of terrorism applied by the extraordinary Commissions for combating Counter Revolution has been take by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses. The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror during which Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been presented in Germany (especially Bavaria), so far as this madness has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people. Although in all these countries there are many non-Jews every bit as bad as the worst of the Jewish revolutionaries, the part played by the latter in proportion to their numbers in the population is astonishing.  

"Zionism versus Bolshevism: A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People." ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY HERALD, London, February 8, 1920.

Churchill states that Lenin was not a Jew but later accounts claim that he was. On this same website, the following is quoted in this regard:

World famous men of the past accused the Jews of founding Communism. This charge is well founded. The Communist philosophy was drawn up by Karl Marx who descended from a long line of Rabbis. His ideology of anti-Christian and Socialist thought is outlined in the Jewish "TALMUD" which is the "bible" of the Jews. Of the four political groups which overthrew the Christian Czar of Russia two were 100% Jewish. They were the Mensheviks and The Jewish Bund. The other two were the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Bolsheviks. Both were headed by Jews but had some Gentile members. Today we now know that Lenin was Jewish and all of the leaders of his first government were Jews. They were Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev and Sverdlow. The wealthiest Jewish banker in the world at that time, Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb investment bank of New York City, gave Trotsky and Lenin $20 million to overthrow the Czar and establish the Soviet tyranny. 

"NEW YORK JOURNAL-AMERICAN" of February 3, 1949.

However, I was led to the above-mentioned website because of a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin in a 1787 speech. It was a prophetic speech that struck me as phoney as soon as I'd read it. The source was from the diary of someone who had been in attendance at the supposed speech. It turns out that this prophecy is very probably a forgery. To quote from Wikipedia:

The Franklin Prophecy is a forgery. It was first published in February 1934 in William Dudley Pelley’s publication, Liberation. It refers to an anti-Semitic speech which Benjamin Franklin is alleged to have made at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, written down by Charles Pinckney of South Carolina and preserved in his journal. In a letter to John Quincy Adams dated 30 December 1818, Pinckney said he had kept a journal of the proceedings at the Convention. Pelley claimed that Pinckney published the Journal "for private distribution among his friends" under the title Chit-Chat Around the Table During Intermissions.

It was circulated during the 1930s however, and the following gives some idea of its impact and of the receptivity to such ideas amongst the general population:

Following its publication in Liberation, the "Prophecy" was widely circulated throughout the United States. In the 1930s it was disseminated by chain letters, and printed copies of the speech were placed in trains, buses, railway stations and similar public places. It appeared in the propaganda press and broadcasts of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, and a version was included in the 1935 edition of Handbuch der Judenfrage ("Handbook On The Jewish Question"), a political publication by Theodor Fritsch, first written several decades earlier, that went on to become a Nazi "bible". 

In the United States, anti-Semitic groups such as Chicago’s We The Mothers Mobilize For America used the Prophecy as their raison d'etre. Gerald L. K. Smith and other anti-Semitic propagandists argued strongly in favour of its authenticity, and it was printed in Women’s Voice (31 July 1952) and the Political Reporter (July 1953). In May 1954 it was published in The Point, put out by Roman Catholic Father Leonard Feeney of St Benedict’s, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

If we go back to the Churchill quote however, we see that he wasn't criticising Jews per se. In fact, he had praised the Jews in Russia itself and instead had targeted a sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race. Most, if not all, of them have forsaken the faith of their forefathers, and divorced from their minds all spiritual hopes of the next world.

It's clear that anti-semitism was rampant not only in Europe but also in the United States prior to World War 2. Of course, following Germany's defeat and the hugely successful marketing of The Holocaust, this changed. The stage was set for the creation of the state of Israel and all the subsequent problems arising from that. To my mind, it seems that the history of the Jews in Britain is critical to an understanding of how things have gotten to this current sorry pass. Israel owes its existence to Britain. There is a Wikipedia article on the History of the Jews in England. The article begins as follows:

The history of the Jews in England goes back to the reign of William the Conqueror. The first written record of Jewish settlement in England dates from 1070. The Jewish continued until King Edward I's Edict of Expulsion in 1290. After the expulsion, there was no Jewish community, apart from individuals who practised Judaism secretly, until the rule of Oliver Cromwell. While Cromwell never officially readmitted Jews to Britain, a small colony of Sephardic Jews living in London was identified in 1656 and allowed to remain.

Of course, once the Jews were readmitted, a sinister confederacy quickly gained control of the levers of financial power and never relinquished them. Over the next two centuries, Britain became the world's dominant nation and as its power faded, control of the United States financial system, was gained in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve. Jewish control of Hollywood and the entertainment industry followed until total control of the country was achieved in the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1970s, the cabal reached out to China and successively brought it in from the cold to where it had been deliberately banished in 1949. The stage is now set for it to attain dominance over the entire world and not just single, powerful nations. Here are some of the key dates:

• 1066: first Jews arrive with William the Conqueror
• 1290: all Jews expelled from England under decree of Edward 1
• 1655: Jews are readmitted to England thanks to Oliver Cromwell's support
• 1753: Jewish Naturalisation Act passed but repealed the next year due to opposition
• 1798: Rothschilds establish business in Manchester and bank in London
• 1858: Lionel de Rothschild is the first Jew to become a member of parliament
• 1868: Benjamin Disraeli (a Christian Jew) becomes Prime Minister
• 1884: Nathan Mayer Rothschild becomes first Jewish member of House of Lords
• 1917: Walter Rothschild sets up the conditions for the Balfour Declaration, which promises a homeland in Palestine for Jews in a new Zionist State

Interestingly, the Jewish populations in Britain and the United States swelled from the 1880s through the early part of the 20th century because of massive pogroms in Europe: 

Of the East European Jewish emigrants, 1.9 million (80 percent) headed to the United States, and 140,000 (7 percent) to Britain. The chief mechanism was chain migration in which the first successful member(s) of the chain send information, local currency (and sometimes tickets or money for tickets) to later arrivals. Source

However, antisemitism is still alive and well in the world. The following statistics are interesting. Note how Greece, most affected by the banksters, shows the highest rate of antisemitism.