Chapter IX: The Position in the World as a Whole 189

The Jewish problem varies (1) according to the extent to which Jews have acquired control and domination in various places; (2) according to the tradition of each community in approaching the problem; (3) according to the strength in each community of the four international forces, which are the Catholic Church, Islam, Industrial Capitalism, and the Socialist revolt against this last.

The individual Jew does not feel that he is in a position of control or even that he is interfering with his hosts--yet that is the universal complaint against him--it is a corporate or collective power--more and more resented.

The position in Russia--repeated--in the Marches of Russia and Roumania and Poland--in Central Europe--in Occidental Europe--Ireland an exception.

The position in the United States--Mr. Ford and the great effect of his action.

The Western tradition more favourable to the Jews than the Eastern--problem of the Jews and Islam--position of the Catholic Church--effect of Industrial Capitalism and of its converse, Socialism, upon the problem.

CHAPTER X

THE POSITION OF THE JEWS IN ENGLAND 215

England has gone to both extremes with the Jew. The Jew in the Roman time and in the Middle Ages--his monopoly of Usury in _early_ Middle Ages--The exile of all English Jews under Edward I--their return under Cromwell--followed by a growing alliance between the English State and the Jews--largely due to cosmopolitan commercial interests of Britain--also to common hostility towards the Catholic Church--aided by great wealth and security of this country--in the later nineteenth century the Jews, in spite of their small numbers, colour every English institution, especially the Universities and the House of Commons--the interests of the two races began to diverge before the Great War--none the less a formal alliance maintained through the control of the politicians by Jewish finance--its culmination in the attempt to form an Anglo-Judaic state in Palestine.

CHAPTER XI

ZIONISM 231

The chief interest of the Zionist experiment lies in its reaction upon the _international_ position of the Jew--yet that point is not yet discussed--what will be the effect of the experiment on the position of Jews _outside_ Palestine, necessarily the vast majority of the race?--an inevitable alternative--either the Jews lose their international position through loss of the fiction that they are not a nation--or the Zionist experiment breaks down--effect especially in Eastern Europe.

Special effect of the experiment on Great Britain--difficulty of maintaining sacrifice for purely Jewish interests--which now clash with British--unpopularity of such sacrifice inevitable--grave error of first appointment to the headship of the New State--unworthiness of the politician chosen for that position.

CHAPTER XII

OUR DUTY 249

This but a consequence of the conditions established in Chapters IV, V and VI--our double duty of mixing with the Jews and of recognizing their separate nationality--necessity of _openly_ admitting this separate nationality in conversation and social habits--in spite of difficulties opposed by convention--in this the wealthier classes should follow the lead of the populace--folly and danger of _Fear_ in this matter--the fear of Jewish power a degrading and exasperating thing to the European--delay makes it worse--our plain duty is to recognize this alien nation, to respect it, and to treat it frankly as we do every nationality other than one's own.

CHAPTER XIII

THEIR DUTY 271

Only a brief mention--for interference or advice in domestic concerns of Jewry would be an impertinence--but it is clear that all specially Jewish institutions favour the right policy for which I plead--those already in existence--schools, newspapers, Jewish societies--all increase of these institutions should be welcome, because they emphasize and make clear the separate nationality of the Jew.