ZIONISM versus BOLSHEVISM. A STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. By the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill.
Caption of accompanying photograph: “Mr. Churchill inspecting his old regiment, the 4th Hussars, at Aldershot last week”
SOME people like Jews and some do not; but 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 , 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
we look at the miserable state of Russia, where of all countries
in the world the Jews were the most cruelly treated, and
contrast it with the fortunes of our own country, which seems to
have been so providentially preserved amid the 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 Bad Jews.
The conflict between good and evil which proceeds unceasingly in
the breast of man nowhere reaches such an intensity as in the
Jewish race. The dual nature of mankind is nowhere more strongly
or more terribly exemplified. We owe to the Jews in the
Christian revelation a system of ethics which, even if it were
entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably
the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the
fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together. On that
system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck
of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilisation.
And it may well be that this same astounding race may at the
present time be in the actual process of producing another
system of morals and philosophy, as malevolent as Christianity
was benevolent, which, if not arrested, would shatter
irretrievably all that Christianity has rendered possible. It
would almost seem as if the gospel of Christ and the gospel of
Antichrist were destined to originate among the same people; and
that this mystic and mysterious race had been chosen for the
supreme manifestations, both of the divine and the diabolical.
"National" Jews.
There can be no greater mistake than to attribute to each
individual a recognisable share in the qualities which make up
the national character. There are all sorts of men – good, bad
and, for the most part, indifferent – in every country, and in
every race. Nothing is more wrong than to deny to an individual, on account of race or origin, his right to be judged on his personal merits and conduct. In a people of peculiar genius like the Jews, contrasts are more vivid, the extremes are more widely separated, the resulting consequences are more decisive.
At the present fateful period there are three main lines of
political conception among the Jews, two of which are helpful
and hopeful in a very high degree to humanity, and the third
absolutely destructive.
First there are the Jews who, dwelling in every country
throughout the world, identify themselves with that country, enter into its national life, and, while adhering faithfully to their own religion, regard themselves as citizens in the fullest sense of the State which has received them. Such a Jew living in England would say, “I am an Englishman practising the Jewish faith.” This is a worthy conception, and useful in the highest degree. We in Great Britain well know that during the great struggle the influence of what may be called the “National Jews” in many lands was cast preponderatingly on the side of the Allies; and in our own Army Jewish soldiers have played a most distinguished part, some rising to the command of armies, others winning the Victoria Cross for valour.