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The Jewish Question
We have been asked to comment on a much reprinted
series of articles from Mr. Henry Ford's paper, the Dearborn
Independent, which draw largely for inspiration on the so-called
Protocols of the Elders of Zion. We do so only in order to make
our own position clearer. The authenticity, or degree of
authenticity, of these strange documents has been the subject of
much investigation, affirmation and denial, and the controversy
must assume an undeniable relevance for many if it becomes more
and more apparent that at least for some part of the Zionist
movement the Palestine question is less the settlement of
harried and persecuted Jews in a land where they can live in
peace and contentment, than the creation of a Jewish state as
the seat of a new World Power.
Our own attitude towards
Palestine, however, has owed nothing to the consideration of
such a project, whether fancied or real. We have simply seen the
forced planting of Jews in Palestine, and in the dispossession
of the Arabs, as a monstrous injustice laid upon a relatively
weak and defenceless people. Against the right of the Arabs to
continue to live in their own country and in their own way, we
see the Balfour Declaration, and even the Mandate itself, as
wholly without moral standing.
Similarly, in our attacks upon the evil of an immense power
over the lives of men being wielded by a small class, or clique,
through the control of money and credit, we have attached no
special significance to the large Jewish element amongst
financiers. it would be idle to deny that the circumstances
could easily lend itself to a sort of inner community of
interest, and that the solidarity of the Jewish race behind its
accredited leaders would powerfully aid any policy such a group
might choose to pursue. it is obviously no mere matter of
passing interest.
But our contention has been, and remains, that
the concentration of virtually all wealth and power into the
hands of a few is in itself an evil and a very dangerous thing,
whether we think of power as exercised through money and
economic pressure or politically through an all-powerful
government machine. if the threat proved to be one of Jewish
domination we should certainly oppose it, but we should oppose
it none the less if it were wholly Gentile.
M.C.P. publications, 93 Chancery Lane, W.C.2 * * *
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updated 11 June 2008 |
