Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: 1939

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Friday, August 11, 2023

This 1939 description of antisemitism could have been written today

Rev. Charles Owen RiceThis article from JTA, published in September 1939, sounds like it could have been written today in regard to "anti-Zionists."DISCUSSES ANTI-JEWISH ATTITUDE Priest Assails Those Who Say They Are Not. Opposed to "Good Jews." PITTSBURGH—Those who mask their anti-Semitism with the assertion that they are not opposed to "good Jews" were assailed...

The best response to the Goyim Defense League: Baseball bats

Haaretz reports:A Reform synagogue in the southern U.S. state of Georgia hasn't experienced an antisemitic incident in its nearly 165-year history – until this weekend, when it was one of two congregations targeted by a neo-Nazi hate group.“This is a congregation has been around since 1859,” said Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar, the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Israel in Macon, Georgia,...

There are no antisemites. They are ALL just misunderstood!

A year ago I posted newspaper articles showing that even the worst antisemites deny being antisemites. They always have a reason for hating Jews that has nothing at all about hating Jews. A neo-Nazi skinhead who said he doesn't hate Jews, just doesn't want them around anymore.Famous firebrand radio star Rev. Charles Coughlin denied being antisemitic.Henry Ford, who distribute...

In 1940, American Jews were urged to purchase land in Eretz Israel despite antisemitic British restrictions

The most infamous section of the 1939 British White Paper was the part that severely restricted the ability of Jews to immigrate to Palestine - on the eve of the Holocaust.Not as well known is that the White Paper also prohibited or restricted Jews from purchasing lands from Arabs for much of the area of the Mandate:The Administration of Palestine is required, under Article...

Large cache of Jewish objects hidden by Jews in Lodz in 1939 unearthed (lots of photos)

From Times of Israel:About 400 items believed to have been hidden in the ground by their Jewish owners during World War II have been accidentally uncovered during home renovation work in a yard in Lodz in central Poland.History experts say that the objects found in the city’s Polnocna Street include Hanukkah menorahs and items used in daily life, TVN24 reported.Another Polish...

"Jews Need Not Apply" - antisemitic want ads from 1862-1939

New York Times, 1862:New York Daily Herald, 1878:Birmingham Daily Mail, 1880:Sydney Morning Herald, 1883:Glasgow Herald, 1884:St. Louis Post Dispatch, 1888:Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1895:Philadelphia Inquirer, 1906:Boston Globe, 1910:Hartford Courant, 1923:Asbury Park Press, 1931, in what may be the most fascinating of them all:Kansas City Times, 1939, the latest one I could find.The...