The Phoenix Jewish news., 1960-04-08

carnate, the enternaI prOScr1pt. The charge
that Jews desecrated the Host in Stuttgart
in 1892 and the charge that the Jews push
in the subway in 1860 are valid charges in
that man does all these things Anti-Semi-
tism implies a complete remuneration of
logic. Every yes has its own no, and every
question determines its own answer. Only
by logic, which is Unconditional and un-
aesthetic, can man hope to reconcile this
ambivalence. But the anti-Semite is a-logi-
cal. And logic cannot prevail against him
The Germans, for instance, who Thomas
banished by the conversion to Christianity
without Renaissance, have been the most
anti-Semitic of people. The lure and ad-
venture of Wotan and Valhalla were never
banished by the conversion to Christianity
When the Christian ethic binds them too
tightly, when the primitivism and atavism
of Valhalla sounds, the Germans lash out
against Christianity by prosecuting the
Jews, the precursors of Christianity.
1t is for this reason that one can always
say anti-Semitism is a Christian problem.
When it appears, countries have largely
abandoned the Christian ethic and owe
only nominal allegiance to the ethical
and social laws imposed by the pulpit and
the Bible. Freud, in his little monograph
published at the end of his life, "Moses
and Monotheism," said that Judaism was
a father religion and Christianity a son
religion. Anti-Semitism, he claimed, was
always a reaction to Christianity, form
of Oedipal guilt. Professor J. F. Brown of
Kansas University has written, ga certain
amount of our childhood Illustration which
we can never openly express against
Christ may become expressed against Jews
through his Identification with them"
Anti-Semitism remains incurable as long
as Christianity does not recognize it as an
attack upon itself. Responsible Christian
leaders have always condemned it. But
Christianity generally does not feel the
threat anti-Semitism mounts against it.
Christianity has always been cerebral
about anti-Semitism where they need to be
emotional. In effect, anti-Semitism is re-
volt against Christianity. The Jews are the
living witnesses to Christianity-and this
only the psychopathic anti-Semite really
understands
The trick the anti-Semitic plays is to make
the Jew guilty no matter what he does
Thus, the Jew is linked the Bolshevism to
day. A few decades ago, the Jew was gull
ty because he had invented" capitalism
Thus, the conduct and action of the Jew
are irrelevant. The anti-Semite is not pre-
pared to listen to statistics proving Jews
vi n the war, to scientists who offer evi-
donco that biologically the Jew is no diff
ferent, to sociologists who illustrate that
all differences are tempered by the milieu,
or for that matter to Christians who urge
him to love- The Jews waste lot of money
printing apologize pamphlets which de-
scribe the talent of Jewish basketball play
er and the circumstances under which,
Haym Solomon lent money to George
Washington. All conduct is irrelevant be-
cause the anti-Semite proceeds on a Priori
AMI Hh0 of or in q
day paper may describe the accomplish
ments of the boy who woke up at A. am.
to milk the cows, sped off on a newspaper
route, put himself through college, and is
now head of the local Coca-Cola bottling
plant This is success story. But it is not a
success story when it involves a Jew. The
motion picture tycoon who helped envolve
one of the largest industries in the world
is nothing more than former Jewish
pants-presser. The Jewish textile magnate
is an ex-peddler. What is virtue else
where is less than virtue in Jews
But the Jew, of course, is not without
his protection. A new sort of civilization
protects us. Barring some titanic catastro-
phe-such as an all-out hydrogen war with
the Soviet Union or complete economic
collapse after a runaway inflatlon-pohtl-
cal and economic anti-Semitism is impos-
sible in the English speaking world. While
the English-speaking world has no cure for
anti-Semitism, it effectively controls the
disease.
Since the Constitution of Charles II, the
newly coronated monarch of England
promises protection to each of the minority
groups that swear allegiance to the crown.
For anti-Semites to begin program of
even the mildest sort would mean they
would have to overthrow the Crown, let
alone gain control of Parliament
In America, the anti-Semites would have
TO tear, up the Constitution This is too re-