The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-11
DUTY OF HEBREWS.
I. Zangwill Says They Should Protest
I'm Behalf Of Civilization.

I'm Behalf of Civilization.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-I. Zangwill. the
noted Jewish author, says: THE idea said
to be simmering I'm Chicago of a boycott of
the Paris exposition by the Jews of America
because of the conviction of Dreyfus, does
not seem to me entirely we'll advised. al
though sympathize very strongly with the
moral indignation that lies behind IT. But
this attempt to meet force by force seems
to me the wrong way for the Jews to assert
their passion I'm history. 1t would give color
to the idea which was insinuated in Lord
Beaconfield's novels (after the grandiose
fashion of his Oriental imagination), that
there exists vast secret brotherhood of
the Jews throughout Europe working for
common ends. III there is any such brother
hood throughout Europe. it is of Jesuits. not
of Jews.
las a matter of logic, there ought to be
great cooperation of Jews throughout the
world for moral. not material. ends, If they
are to be true to their vocation as the
chosen people; but human life is not logical.
only psychological; and instead 90 being
massed together for moral purposes or even
for mutual protection, the Jews, ever since
the fall of their state in Palestine, have
simply sunk themselves in their respective
countries and work together for no purpose
whatever. Nay, in the middle ages, when
community had established itself in pros
perity in any country, it would adopt pro-
tectionist policy and, in the event of a
threatened immigration of other Jews, it
would petition its government to keep them
out with as much eagerness as any modern
anti-Semite party.
up to the other day, even the Spanish
and German Jews were not in accord with
one another, and any marriage between the
two sections would have caused as much
bitterness marriage with a Christian
Therefore, this dream that has always
haunted the romanticists, and which is
latent in the minds of many good people
throughout Europe. of a vast secret con-
spiracy to control capital and the press and
the professions in every country is pure
delusion. The modern Zionist movement is
the first attempt since the exile to concen-
trate the race for a great common purpose.
but the race is not strong enough to hurt
France in the way suggested and, there
fore. the weapon of force would not only
be Ineffective, but would hurt the hand that
welded it by appearing to give warrant to
the suspicion Of a conspiracy and to the
idea of the vast power of the Jew.
nat suggest mySel1 is tnat every Jew
who feels an injustice has been committed
should of himself stay away from the ex-
position, and fully expect that this course
Will be followed by thousands of Christians.
Instead of a specific Jewish protest should
prefer "a protest In the name OF the human
brotherhood. Let Jews, if they will, take
the lead in stimulating this protest If no.
body else is found to initiate it, but let
the protest be that of humanity and civili-
zation. not of a scattered race a member of
which has been wronged.
"Dreyfus himself places France first and
Israel second. He in no way pretends to
De part OF Jewish nation working for
common aims. His greatest desire is to die
| not for Israel, but for France. II ever
ethics is to rule international relations, as II
already does private relations, then a be-
ginning must be made somewhere, and
France now should be made to feel that she
has offended against the moral code, and
shocked the conscience OF civiliza ton, and
l repeat the protest of Jews should be a
protest on behalf of civilization and human
fty. and not on behalf of a brother Jew
"a protest on behalf Of those great ideals
which France was the first to express for
| the modern world"