Status Updates From You Gentiles

Today, w/ race triumphant over ideal, anti-Semitism uncovers its fangs, & to the heartless refusal of asylum, is added cowardly insult. We are not only excluded, but told, in the unmistakable language of immigration laws, that we are an "inferior" people..the country prepared itself, through its journalists, vilification of the Jew, and, when sufficiently inspired by popular & "scientific" potions, committed the act.

If America had any meaning at all, it lay in the peculiar attempt to rise above the trend of civilization—the ID of race w/ State, purely an ideal, & nationality was identical only w/ its acceptance. But it seems now that the entire point of view was a mistaken one, incapable of rising above..The ideal which constituted US nationality disappears now, & in its place emerges again, with atavistic certainty, the race.

the Jew is not being forced to stay at home: while one part of the gentile world persecutes him, the other part refuses him a chance to escape. For very shame—if you were capable of it you should give the Jew free immigration everywhere. The irony of it is, of course, that it is chiefly against the Jew that anti-immigration laws are passed here in America as in England and Germany.

The demand for racial homogeneity has led, in the US—the most unexploited land in the world—to the exclusion of the immigrant, particularly of one who will not lend himself to the type of assimilation—or self-destruc.—which you demand. The Jew has no homeland of his own. When he migrates, it is invariably under persecution. To close the gate against the Jew is not the same as against the Italian or the Pole.

If the struggle between us is ever to be lifted, your democracies will have to alter their demands for racial, spiritual & cultural homogeneity within the State. But it would be foolish to regard this as a possibility, for the tendency of this civ. is in the opposite direction. There is a steady approach to the identification of gov w/ race, instead of w/ the political State..it is perhaps futile to expect a change.

Your demand is not connected w/ views. It is a question of identity. You want us to be Anglos or Teutons, if you are to call us English or German. And we cannot be that..That strangers should come to dwell in your midst is one thing. That they should claim, after a generation, complete identity with you, is as absurd as it is insolent. And even if they dwell in your midst 1000 years, yet keep apart, they are not you.

Among our simple people you do not find the delight in constructive trifles which is one of yourcharacteristics. Your simple people like to build things, fix this and that in the house, play the handy man; they take pleasure in putting up shelves, looking to the plumbing, adding and altering. We are devoid of this kind of craftsman's pleasure; we do what is necessary, only because it is necessary.

We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will for ever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build…The wretched fate which scattered us through your midst has thrust this unwelcome role upon us.

The unbelieving, radical Jew is as different from the radical Gentile as the orthodox Jew from the reactionary Gentile. The cosmopolitanism of the radical Jew springs from his feeling (shared by the orthodox Jew) that there is no difference between Gentile & Gentile. You are all pretty much alike: then why this fussing & fretting & fighting? He is not one who feels difference between national & nation, & overrides it

You must learn to dislike & fear the modern "assimilated" Jew more than the old Jew, for he is more dangerous. At least the old Jew kept apart, was easily recognizable…you were afraid of him & loathed him. To a large extent he was insulated. But as the Jew assimilates, cultivates a certain intimacy, handles your instruments, you are aware that his nature, once confined safely to his own life, now threatens yours.

We have joined your capitalistic world…yet Jewish socialism & socialists are the banner bearers of the world's "armies of liberation." 3 or 4 million modernized Jews, a ludicrously small number, have given to the world's iconoclastic force its chief impetus & by far its largest individual contribution. America & England put together have not played that role in world revolution which a handful of Jews have played.

If we're willing to forget the past, is not your past your present? Is not the blood libel alive today? And its companion viper, "the Elders of Zion"? Didn't 100s of 1000s Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Americans, read these legends w/o protesting & seeking to punish the libelers? "Kill the Christ-killer Jews" does indeed ring strange these days. But does "a dose of lead for the Jewish Bolsheviks" sound very remote?

The fact that we have persisted for 80 generations in maintaining racial and spiritual identity bespeaks discipline of amazing rigor and power…we have outlived the most able nations…we have survived the Roman legion & shall no doubt outlive the Order of Jesus…I have no doubt that when Germany & England & America will long have lost their present identity or name or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.

There does not seem to be a single country with a history which has not been anti-Semitic at one time or another. There is no land today of which the Jew can say, "anti-Semitism will never become triumphant." Your dislike of us finds uneven expression, at times is lulled into rest or overborne by generosity, but it is inherent, nor is it conceivable that, as long as there are Jews & Gentiles, it should ever disappear

the coming and going of men and nations and gods are without ultimate significance, a dance of atoms, a passing ecstasy without thought of the sinister beyond. Beautiful—but not for us! While this dance goes on, while nations and gods enter the game and leave it, we continue through all time, an apparition almost, a dread reminder of infinity.

For we must distinguish between a patron god & a national god. The 1st is an especially assigned power. The 2nd is the complete reflex of the people, a god who is born w/ the people, who is its raison d'etre, w/o whom the people would not have come into national existence. You have had patron gods: we have a national God. In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?

We cannot conceive of a duality —religion and life, the sacred and the secular. A Jew is a Jew in everything, not merely in prayers and in synagogue. In the eyes of a pietist, a Jew who does not follow the rules and regulations of the synagogue, who even denies all dogma is not a non-Jew: he is a bad Jew, a sinful and rebellious Jew.

Of course I shall be told, in establishing this distinction, that it is "dangerous to generalize."..Suppose it is true: are not many necessary things dangerous … ? A truth is nonetheless a truth because it is a dangerous truth —i.e., open to abuse. Nevertheless, the most serious truths can only be stated as generalities. And this most serious truth is among them, this contrast in attitude of Jew and Gentile.

We are everywhere, to a large extent, aliens. A sense of inferiority in status drives us to extremes of sacrifice in justifying our claims to equality. Moreover: we Jews are so frequently & so vigorously reminded, in all constitutionally governed & liberal countries, that we ought to be grateful for permission to live there, that we develop a gratitude which is not only disproportionate but occasionally grotesque.

When we are set face to face w/ an opponent, & one must kill the other, we proceed in the most effective way: we can't understand the idea that rules of conduct govern murder. We can't understand a man who, attacking another, insists that the other, in self-defense, shall strike only above the belt. That strange character, the gentleman thief, who recurs frequently in your..literature, perhaps points my meaning best.

This difference in behavior..springs from a difference in our biology. It does not argue the inferiority of the one or the other. It is a difference..which cannot be argued.
You have your way of life, we ours. In your system of life we are essentially without "honor." In our system of life you are essentially w/o morality. In your system of life we must forever appear graceless; to us you must forever appear Godless.

I do not believe that this primal difference between Gentile and Jew is reconciliable. You and we may come to an understanding, never to a reconciliation. There will be irritation between us as long as we are in intimate contact. For nature and constitution and vision divide us from all of you forever — not a mere conviction, not a mere language, not a mere difference of national or religious allegiance.

This question [of why bring attention to whether Jews are exceptionally distinct] will be asked of me by many Jews—but in particular it will be asked with the utmost insistence by those Jews who have based our case for national rights, national equality, precisely on this assumption—that we Jews are a people like all other peoples

Zionism itself agrees that Jews are immutable aliens 4eva