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ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY HERALD.

FEBRUARY 8.

1920.

Page 5.

ZIONISM versus BOLSHEVISM.

A STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF
OME people like Jews and some do not; hut no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world. Disraeli, the Jew Prime Minister of England, and Leader of the Conservative Party, who was always true to his race and proud of his origin. Said on a well-known occasion: "The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews. " Certainly when you look at the miserable state of Russia, where of all countries in the world the Jews were the most cruellv treated, and contrast it with the fortunes of our own country, which seems to have been so providentially preserved amid Ihe awful perils of these times, we must admit that nothing that has since happened in the history of the world has falsified the truth of Disraeli's confident assertion. Good and Ban Jews. The conflict between good and evil which proceeds unceasingly in the breast of man nowhere reaches such an intensity as in the Mr. Churchill inspecting his old regiment, Jewish race. The dual nature of mankind is nowhere more strongly or more terribly exemplified. Wc owe to the Jews in the The National Russian Jews, in spite of the Christian revelation a system of ethics which, disabilities under which they have suffered, even if it were entirely separated from the have managed to play an honourable and usesupernatural, would be incomparably the ful part In the national life even of Russia. most precious possession of mankind, worth As bankers and industrialists they have in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and strenuously promoted the development of learning put together. On that system and Russia's economic resources, and they were by that faith there has been built nut nf thei foremost in the creation of those remarkable wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our organisations. the Russian Co-operative existing civilisation. Societies. In politics their support has been And it may well be that this same astound- given, for the most part, to liberal and proing race may at the present time be in the gressive movements, and they have been actual process of producing another system among the staunchest upholders of Friendof morals and philosophy, as malevolent as ship with France and Great Britain. Christianity was benevolent, which, if not arrested, would shatter irretrievably all that International Jews Christianity has rendered possible, ft Mould In violent opposition to all this sphere of almost seem as if the gospel of Christ and Jewish effort rise the schemes of the interthe gospel of Antichrist were destined to national JewTs. The adherents of this sinister originate among the same people; and that confederacy are mostly men reared up among this mystic and mysterious race had been the unhappy populations of countries where chosen for the supreme manifestations, both Jews are persecuted on account of their race. of the divine and the diabolical. Most, if not all. of them have forsaken the faith of their forefathers, and divorced " National " Jews. from their minds all spiritual hopes of the There can be no greater mistake than to next world. This movement among the Jews attribute to each individual a recognisable is not new. From the days of Spartacusshare in the qualities which make up the -Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down national character. There are all sorts of to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kim (Hungary), men good, bad and. for the most part, indifferent in every country, and in every Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Kmma race. Nothing is more wrong than to deny Goldman (United States), this world-wide to an individual, on account of race or origin, conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation his right to be judged on his personal merits and for the reconstitution of society on the and conduct. In a people of peculiar genius basis of arrested development, of envious like the Jews, contrasts arc more vivid, the malevolence, and impossible equality, has It played, as extremes are more widely separated, the been steadily growing. a modern writer. Mrs. Webster, has so resulting consequences are more decisive. ably shown. a definitely recognisable At the present fateful period there are three part in the tragedy ot the French main lines of political conception among the Revolution. It has been the mainspring of Jews, two of which arc helpful and hopeful every subversive movement during the Ninein a very high degree to humanity, and the teenth Century ; and now at last this band of third absolutely destructive. extraordinary personalities from the underFirst there arc the Jews who. dwelling in world of the great cities of Europe and every country throughout the world, identify America have gripped the Russian people by themselves with that country, enter into its national life, and, while adhering faithfully the hair of their heads and hare become to their own religion, regard themselves as practically the undisputed masters of that citizens in the fullest sense of the State enormous empire. which has received them. Such a Jew living in England would say. " I am an English- Terrorist Jews. There is no need to exaggerate the part man practising the Jewish faith," This is a worthy conception, and useful in the highest played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian degree. We in Great Britain well knowthat during the great struggle the influence Revolution by these international and for the of what may be called the "National Jews" in most part atheistical Jews. It is certainly many lands was cast preponderatingly on the a very, great one; it probably outweighs all With the notable exception of side of the Allies; and in our own Army others. Jewish soldiers have played a most distin- Lenin, the majority of the leading figures guished part, some rising to the command of are Jews.. Moreover, the principal inspiraarmies, others winning the Victoria Cross for tion and driving power comes from the valour. Jewish leaders. Thus Tchitcherin, a pure Russian, is eclipsed by his nominal subordinate Litvinoff. and the influence of Russians

THE

JEWISH

PEOPLE.

By the Rt. Hon. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL.

people, most of whom are themselves sufferers from the revolutionary regime. It becomes, therefore, specially important to foster and develop any strongly-marked Jewish movement which leads directly away from these fatal associations. And it is here that Zionism has such a deep significance for the whole world at the present time. A Home for the Jews. Zionism offers the third sphere to the politica1 conceptions of the Jewish race. In violent contrast to international communism, it presents to the Jew a national idea of a commanding character. It has fallen to the British Government, as the result of the conquest of Palestine, to have the opportunity and the responsibility of securing for the Jewish race all over the world a home and a centre of national life. The statesmanship and historic sense of Mr. Balfour were prompt to seize this opportunity. Declarations have been made which have irrevocably decided the policy of Great Britain. The liery energies of Dr. Weissmann, the leader, for practical purposes, of the Zionist project, backed by many of the most prominent British Jews, and supported by the full authority of Lord Allenby, are all directed to achieving the success of this inspiring movement. Of course. Palestine is far too small to accommodate more than a fraction of the Jewish race, nor do the majority of national Jews wish to go there. But if, as may well happen, there should be created in our own lifetime by the banks of the Jordan a Jewish State tinder the protection of the British Crown, which might comprise three or four millions of Jews, an event would have occurred in the history of the world which would, from every point of view, be beneficial, and would be especially in harmony with the truest interests of the British Empire. Zionism has already become a factor in the political convulsions of Russia, as a powerful competing influence in Bolshevik circles with the international communistic system. Nothing could lie more significant then the fury with which Trotsky has attacked the Zionists generally, and Dr. Weissmann in particular. The cruel penetration of his mind leaves him in no doubt that his schemes of a world-wide communistic State under Jewish domination are directly thwarted and hindered by this new ideal, which directs the energies and the hopes of Jews in every land towards a simpler, a truer, and a far more attainable goal. The struggle which is now beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people. Duty of Loyal Jews. It is patriculary important in these circumstances that the national Jews in every country who are loyal to the land of their adoption should come forward on every occasion, as many of them in England have already done, and take a prominent part in every measure for combating the Bolshevik conspiracy. In this way they will be able to vindicate the honour of the Jewish name and make it clear to all the world that the Bolshevik movement is not a Jewish movement, but is repudiated vehemently by the great mass of the Jewish race. But a negative resistance to Bolshevism in any field is not enough. Positive and practicable alternatives are needed in the moral as well as in the social sphere; and in building up with the utmost possible rapidity a Jewish national centre in Palestine which may become not only a refuge to the oppressed from the unhappy lands of Central Europe, but which will also be a symbol of Jewish unity and the temple of Jewish glory a task is presented on which many blessings rest.

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..like Bukharin or Lunacharski cannot be compared with the power of Trotsky, or of Zinovicff the Dictator of the Red Citadel (Petrograd), or of Krassin or Radek all Jews. In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is even more astonishing. And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken 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 in 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 whit 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, " Protector of the Jews. " Needless to say. the most intense-passions of revenge have been excited in the breasts of the Russian people. Wherever General Denikin's authority could reach, protection was always accorded to the Jewish population, and strenuous efforts were made by his officers to prevent reprisals and to punish those guilty of them. So much was this the case that the Petlurist propaganda against General Denikin denounced him as the Protector of the Jews. The Misses Healy, nieces of Mr. Tim llealy. in relating their personal experiences in Kieff, have declared that to their knowledge on more than one occasion officers who committed offences against Jews were reduced to the ranks and sent out of the city to. the front. But the hordes of brigands by whom the whole vast expanse of the Russian Empire is becoming infested do not hesitate to gratify their lust for blood and for revenge at the expense of the innocent Jewish population whenever an opportunity occurs. The brigand Makhno, the hordes of Petlura and of Gregorieff, who signalised their every success by the most brutal massacre, everywhere found among the half-stupefied, halfinfuriated population an eager response to anti-Semitism in its worst and foulest forms. The fact that in many cases Jewish interests and Jewish places of worship arc excepted by the Bolsheviks from their universal hostility has tended more and more to associate the Jewish race in Russia with the villainies which are now being perpetrated. This is an injustice on millions of helpless