Dec. 5, 2013

Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott read and comment on Chapter 70, “The Gentle Art of Changing Jewish Names.”

The tendency of Jews to change their names dates back very far. In more recent times,  the nationalism of Europe was intense and Jews, being an international people,  moved among the nations seeking not to reveal their true identity. Some highlights:

• The authors give us a long list of Jewish names and what they’re most commonly changed into;
• In America, the names of Presidents are quite popular with the name-changers;
• Jews especially like names that do not name, but stand as impressive insignia;
• Zionism and anti-Semitism are also misnomers — labels pretending one thing while quite another really exists;
• The American Jewish Committee would be more accurately called The Jewish Commission for America because it tells us what we may and may not do.

Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.

Nov. 14, 2013

Carolyn Yeager reads and comments on Chapter 68, “Benedict Arnold and Jewish Aid in Shady Deal.”

How Benedict Arnold got courts-martialed, after being given the command of Philadelphia, for “having shut down the stores and shops, even to all officers, while he privately made considerable purchases at lowered prices for his own benefit.” And how the Jewish Franks, who supplied the Army, escaped guilty verdicts time and again. Highlights:

• A committee of the Continental Congress commissions the Jewish merchant David Franks of Philadelphia to feed and care for British prisoners that General Arnold had captured and brought from Canada;
• Because of this, Franks was given many unusual privileges in regard to the British enemy command in New York;
• When David Franks is prosecuted for treason, he goes free in spite of the evidence against him;
• Gen. Washington’s aide de camp sees two incriminating letters written by Gen. Arnold to his aide David Solesbury Franks and testifies to this, while D.S. Franks testifies on behalf of Arnold;
• Both D.S. Franks and Arnold “threaten” to leave the army because their “personal affairs” are suffering (that is, not enough money for them);
• Once again, Arnold escapes with a reprimand, this time officially given by George Washington who says he will himself “furnish (Arnold) with opportunities to regain the esteem of his country.”

Next week we see how that turns out.

Image: Burial marker for David Solesbury/Salisbury, Franks' “highest ranking Jewish officer in the Continental Army.” Donated by Feinstein Center at Temple Univ., American Jewish Committee, and Christ Church. Enlarge

Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.

Oct. 31, 2011

Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on Chapter 66, “The Jews’ Complaint Against “Americanism.”

It cannot be denied that the Jews constitute “a people within a people, a nation within a nation,” in whatever nation they dwell. This being so, the solution to The Jewish Problem must come through one of two things:  a separation of their “nation” from the rest of the nations, or an exaltation of their “nation” above the rest. Other points made:

• Jews most complain of what they themselves began -  anti-Semitism, the ghetto, their separate nationhood;
• The Ghetto Jew from Russia and Poland is held up as the norm and purest example of Judaism;
• Jewish leaders are quoted who object to and deplore the “Americanizing” of Jews, especially in the areas of diet and worship;
• Justice Brandeis of the US Supreme Court said the Jew needs to be protected from the emancipation from the ghetto, and that Palestine was the answer;
• Jews see in the modern state both an opportunity and a menace – and that is why the nation-state has been targeted for destruction by the World Program.

Image: Jewish tribalism. Orthodox Jews burn hametz in preparation for Passover in the Williamsburg section of New York. Hametz, or leavened foods, are not permitted to be eaten during Passover. Click on pic for enlarged view.

Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.

Oct. 17, 2013

“The International Jew” Study Hour presents:  Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on Chapter 64, “The Jewish Element in Bootlegging Evil.”

The Prohibition forces can be seen as between those who most value “personal liberty” vs those more concerned with “public safety.”  Jews were against Prohibition on “moral” grounds (interfering with free choice) but they also saw how they could profit from it. Some highlights from the chapter:

• A Jewish religious weekly magazine published a half-tone picture of Christ endorsing the liquor traffic;
• The Jewish stage, the movies, jazz music and fake medical “experts” were enlisted to fight for the continuation of drinking;
• Bootlegging was a 95 percent Jewish controlled business in which even Rabbis were active in gaining permits for “ritual liquor”;
• The Gentile “boobs” who patronized the bootleggers were sold a greatly overpriced liquor that never was what it was represented to be;
• Among the majority of Jews it was a cause for boast, and Jewish comics and comedians joked about it.

Image: Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine brewery during the Prohibition era. Click on image to enlarge.

Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.