South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-01
BY Israel Zangwill
The Noted Playwright and Advocate OF
Jewish Rights.

1" He Jews do not exist as a political
entity An intelligent Icelander or
= Somali studying an atlas OF the world
would never discover from it that there we're
such folk as Jews in the world. On no map
would he discover any trace of a territory be-
longing TO them. while even from the maps
oolored according to religion. their existence
would be equally unsupported. Indeed, the
only religious division in which they could
possibly find place would be the light-orange
departments allotted 10 the heather"
] well aware OF the legend that they not
only exist but a federation OF millionaires
darkly bent on subduing the world or at least
on pulling its strings in the Jewish interest.
But as happen to have been engaged for some
fifteen years in trying to focus Jewish forces,
II only for self-defence, I am in a position to
you that this legend is fdnnier than
anything in Thackeray's burlesque o. Disraeli.
The Jews are a frightened PEOPLE: six
teen centuries Of Christian love have broken
down their nerves. For the persecution which
began with Constantine, the founder of State
Christianity, has known scarcely a lull. II
there is any object that could federate the
Jewish millionaires. It would be that of de-
EtroyiEg such political Jewish power as they
still apprehend may survive o. he brought
into existence. And the war has come TO CO.
operate with them, grinding the broken atoms
OF JewTy still smaller. dashing them one
against another. It's forces cross and cancel
one another, and their resultant is not Zion,
but zero.
You will now be able to appraise at its true
value the insinUation at present faint but fated
to gather force and frequency as all the swash-
bucklers who started the war become in
creasingIy sick OF it. that the Jewish factor in
the war is nothing less than the whole re.
sponsibility for it, that It was an affair OF
Jewish inanciers or wire-pullers, or perhaps.
as one of my anonymous cores pondents ex.
plains TO me, a consequence Of the vermin-like
multiplication OF the Jews in Germany, which
unhappy land having thus no room for its own
race was compelled to look for "a place in the
sun" (The Jews OF Germany I may remark
are less than l per cent of the population)
Cruel Position of the
Jews in Warning Countries.
You will now be also in a position to appre-
ciate the suggestion Of the London Times that
the Jews are the instigators of the Armenian
massacres, and although the journalists harp
Tsar Ferdinand's nose Gas though it were
Jews harp and a writer in the Fortnightly
Review dweIls with JUNCTION on that somewhat
Judaic nose of the Kaiser. through which he
speaks with a distinctly Judaic snuffle," you
will not imagine. deduce that Jewish Jesuitry
has set its scions on the thrones of Bulgaria
and Germany in order to destroy Britain.
The proposition that the Jews do not exist
requires however, a slight modification.
Though the race has no cohesion as a people
yet where it exists in large numbers it forms
sub-nationalities and these do constitute
political entities, sometimes exercising, as in
Austria that hotch-potch of races, a certain
autonomy. BY far the chief of these sub
nationalities is the Jewry of Russia. recently
calculated at six millions, a population larger
than that OF Palestine in the days Of Solomon.
These Russian Jews are half the Jews of the
world and almost the whole Jewish problem.
The Jews of England are too few to be re-
garded as a sub-natiOnality. they merely
small dissenting sect. not inueed reaching half
q million in the wnole British Empire, includ
ing South Africa. where Mark Twain might
be forgiven for saying he personally knew two
millions Between all these hyphenated sub
nationalities and localized sects there is nor
mally as much repulsiOn as attraction. but the
latent kinship flames up under the persecution
Df any fraction. and the million Jews of New
York who are said to be capable Of swinging
a Presidential election and whose attitude
toward Russia resembles the American-Irish
role In the Home Rule struggle. may be re-
garded distinct factor in the war, indeed
The only Jewish factor; not anttBritish, but
certainly not pTO-ally.
Mr.. Jacob Schih. the most powerful Jew
in the States refused to touch the wsrlOan
unless with a guarantee-which was refused
that no part of the money should go 10 Rus
STA Though German-bOrn, he was quite will
Ing TO help England, but the fnancier OF
the japanese war against Russia he refused TO
study himself The Jewish ideal is OF course
the aEtthesis OF the Prussian, end it also
happens that the Jews in the field, beginning
with some half a million Russian Jews,
overwhelmingly on the side of the allies.
Yet Il would be false To claim them a
pro-ally force. for they have merely obeyed
local patriotism, Staying one another at its
bidding and n Germany they are the brain
mower behind the Throne. One body. indeed.
Of Jewish soldiers. the Zion Mule Transport
Corps-recrlited for the British army out OF
the refugees from Palestine and constituting
the first Jewish regiment since the year 1SS,
does represent an independent choice OF sides,
- vrae in enirpd nv Iaifh ia England.