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A ritual-murder trial was in progress in the town of Xanten, in the Rhineland. On August 31, 1892, Herzl, dealing with this subject as with all other subjects of public interest, summed up the general situation in a long report entitled "French anti-Semitism."
'It is not my town, he said, 'but there is anti-Semitism. It flourishes. 'Why then? I asked. 'How many Jews have you in your town? He said there were seven. 'But, said I, 'seven families of Jews 'There are not seven families, he interrupted; 'there are seven Jews all told. There are but two families, and I am reckoning in the children. The servants are Christians.
And much of this peril also might easily have been lessened, by the simple proposal to call men and things by their own names. I will confess, however, that I have no very full sympathy with the new Anti-Semitism which is merely Anti-Socialism.
In that fateful moment, when he heard the howling of the mob outside the gates of the Ecole Militaire, the realization flashed upon Herzl that anti-Semitism was deep-rooted in the heart of the people so deep, indeed, that it was impossible to hope for its disappearance within a measurable period of time.
Rupticism, Pietism, and Anti-Semitism at the Close of the Nineteenth Century, a study in social history. Vienna, 1894.
The editor of the Hebrew journal ha-Melitz, Alexander Zederbaum, demonstrated clearly that Lutostanski had forged his quotations, and summoned him to a public disputation, which offer was wisely declined. Nevertheless, the agitation of this shameless impostor had a considerable effect on the highest official spheres in which an ever stronger drift toward anti-Semitism was clearly noticeable.
In an article published in the Dearborn Independent, June 19, 1920, it is argued that, transplanted in American soil, anti-Semitism will change its character and that it will not, in this country, take the form of mass violence. Not a single fact or historical example is cited in support of this optimistic theory.
When Herzl arrived in Paris anti-Semitism, had not in spite of Drumont's exertions, and in spite of his paper, la Libre Parole, founded in 1892 achieved the dimensions of a genuine movement, nor was it destined to become one in the German sense.
In Russia and in Rumania to cite only two examples anti-Semitism has injured the Christians fully as much as it has injured the Jews. Turkish hatred and persecution of Armenians has invariably injured the Turks quite as much as it has injured their victims. In opposing the propaganda of anti-Semitism I am defending equally the interest of Jew and non-Jew.
The American people have repeatedly shown the door to those who came hither for the purpose of preaching anti-Semitism, thereby publicly testifying that they would have none of that disgrace to our age. What exists of it in social life is not worth arguing against.
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