Quelle / Churchill 1920 über jüdischen Bolschewismus
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„ZIONISM versus BOLSHEVISM“
Zeitungsbeitrag Winston Churchills vom 8. Februar 1920 – Volltext in englischer Sprache – sowie Auszug über „Internationale Juden“ und „Terroristische Juden“ in deutscher Übersetzung[1]
SOME people like Jews and some do not; but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.
Disraeli, the Jew Prime Minister of England, and Leader of the Conservative Party, who was always true to his race and proud of his origin, said on a well-known occasion: “The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.” Certainly when we look at the miserable state of Russia, where of all countries in the world the Jews were the most cruelly treated, and contrast it with the fortunes of our own country, which seems to have been so providentially preserved amid the awful perils of these times, we must admit that nothing that has since happened in the history of the world has falsified the truth of Disraeli’s confident assertion.
Good and Bad Jews.
The conflict between good and evil which proceeds unceasingly in the breast of man nowhere reaches such an intensity as in the Jewish race. The dual nature of mankind is nowhere more strongly or more terribly exemplified. We owe to the Jews in the Christian revelation a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together. On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilisation.
And it may well be that this same astounding race may at the present time be in the actual process of producing another system of morals and philosophy, as malevolent as Christianity was benevolent, which, if not arrested, would shatter irretrievably all that Christianity has rendered possible. It would almost seem as if the gospel of Christ and the gospel of Antichrist were destined to originate among the same people; and that this mystic and mysterious race had been chosen for the supreme manifestations, both of the divine and the diabolical.
"National" Jews.
There can be no greater mistake than to attribute to each individual a recognisable share in the qualities which make up the national character. There are all sorts of men – good, bad and, for the most part, indifferent – in every country, and in every race. Nothing is more wrong than to deny to an individual, on account of race or origin, his right to be judged on his personal merits and conduct. In a people of peculiar genius like the Jews, contrasts are more vivid, the extremes are more widely separated, the resulting consequences are more decisive.
At the present fateful period there are three main lines of political conception among the Jews, two of which are helpful and hopeful in a very high degree to humanity, and the third absolutely destructive.
First there are the Jews who, dwelling in every country throughout the world, identify themselves with that country, enter into its national life, and, while adhering faithfully to their own religion, regard themselves as citizens in the fullest sense of the State which has received them. Such a Jew living in England would say, “I am an Englishman practising the Jewish faith.” This is a worthy conception, and useful in the highest degree. We in Great Britain well know that during the great struggle the influence of what may be called the “National Jews” in many lands was cast preponderatingly on the side of the Allies; and in our own Army Jewish soldiers have played a most distinguished part, some rising to the command of armies, others winning the Victoria Cross for valour.
The National Russian Jews, in spite of the disabilities under which they have suffered, have managed to play an honourable and useful part in the national life even of Russia. As bankers and industrialists they have strenuously promoted the development of Russia’s economic resources and they were foremost in the creation of those remarkable organisations, the Russian Co-operative Societies. In politics their support has been given, for the most part, to liberal and progressive movements, and they have been among the staunchest upholders of friendship with France and Great Britain.
International Jews.
In violent opposition to all this sphere of Jewish effort rise the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race. Most, if not all, of them have forsaken the faith of their forefathers, and divorced from their minds all spiritual hopes of the next world. This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognisable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.
Terrorist Jews.
There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews. It is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders. Thus Tchitcherin, a pure Russian, is eclipsed by his nominal subordinate Litvinoff, and the influence of Russians like Bukharin or Lunacharski cannot be compared with the power of Trotsky, or of Zinovieff, the Dictator of the Red Citadel (Petrograd), or of Krassin or Radek – all Jews. In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is even more astonishing. And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses. The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror during which Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been presented in Germany (especially in Bavaria), so far as this madness has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people. Although in all these countries there are many non-Jews every whit as bad as the worst of the Jewish revolutionaries, the part played by the latter in proportion to their numbers in the population is astonishing.
"Protector of the Jews."
Needless to say, the most intense passions of revenge have been excited in the breasts of the Russian people. Wherever General Denikin’s authority could reach, protection was always accorded to the Jewish population, and strenuous efforts were made by his officers to prevent reprisals and to punish those guilty of them. So much was this the case that the Petlurist propaganda against General Denikin denounced him as the Protector of the Jews. The Misses Healy, nieces of Mr. Tim Healy, in relating their personal experiences in Kieff, have declared that to their knowledge on more than one occasion officers who committed offences against Jews were reduced to the ranks and sent out of the city to the front. But the hordes of brigands by whom the whole vast expanse of the Russian Empire is becoming infested do not hesitate to gratify their lust for blood and for revenge at the expense of the innocent Jewish population whenever an opportunity occurs. The brigand Makhno, the hordes of Petlura and of Gregorieff, who signalised their every success by the most brutal massacres, everywhere found among the half-stupefied, half-infuriated population an eager response to anti-Semitism in its worst and foulest forms.
The fact that in many cases Jewish interests and Jewish places of worship are excepted by the Bolsheviks from their universal hostility has tended more and more to associate the Jewish race in Russia with the villainies which are now being perpetrated. This is an injustice on millions of helpless people, most of whom are themselves sufferers from the revolutionary regime. It becomes, therefore, specially important to foster and develop any strongly-marked Jewish movement which leads directly away from these fatal associations. And it is here that Zionism has such a deep significance for the whole world at the present time.
A Home for the Jews.
Zionism offers the third sphere to the political conceptions of the Jewish race. In violent contrast to international communism, it presents to the Jew a national idea of a commanding character. It has fallen to the British Government, as the result of the conquest of Palestine, to have the opportunity and the responsibility of securing for the Jewish race all over the world a home and a centre of national life. The statesmanship and historic sense of Mr. Balfour were prompt to seize this opportunity. Declarations have been made which have irrevocably decided the policy of Great Britain. The fiery energies of Dr. Weissmann, the leader, for practical purposes, of the Zionist project, backed by many of the most prominent British Jews, and supported by the full authority of Lord Allenby, are all directed to achieving the success of this inspiring movement.
Of course, Palestine is far too small to accommodate more than a fraction of the Jewish race, nor do the majority of national Jews wish to go there. But if, as may well happen, there should be created in our own lifetime by the banks of the Jordan a Jewish State under the protection of the British Crown, which might comprise three or four millions of Jews, an event would have occurred in the history of the world which would, from every point of view, be beneficial, and would be especially in harmony with the truest interests of the British Empire.
Zionism has already become a factor in the political convulsions of Russia, as a powerful competing influence in Bolshevik circles with the international communistic system. Nothing could be more significant than the fury with which Trotsky has attacked the Zionists generally, and Dr. Weissmann in particular. The cruel penetration of his mind leaves him in no doubt that his schemes of a world-wide communistic State under Jewish domination are directly thwarted and hindered by this new ideal, which directs the energies and the hopes of Jews in every land towards a simpler, a truer, and a far more attainable goal. The struggle which is now beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people.
Duty of Loyal Jews.
It is particularly important in these circumstances that the national Jews in every country who are loyal to the land of their adoption should come forward on every occasion, as many of them in England have already done, and take a prominent part in every measure for combating the Bolshevik conspiracy. In this way they will be able to vindicate the honour of the Jewish name and make it clear to all the world that the Bolshevik movement is not a Jewish movement, but is repudiated vehemently by the great mass of the Jewish race.
But a negative resistance to Bolshevism in any field is not enough. Positive and practicable alternatives are needed in the moral as well as in the social sphere; and in building up with the utmost possible rapidity a Jewish national centre in Palestine which may become not only a refuge to the oppressed from the unhappy lands of Central Europe, but which will also be a symbol of Jewish unity and the temple of Jewish glory, a task is presented on which many blessings rest.
Auszug (dt.):
„Internationale Juden.
In heftiger Opposition zu diesem Wirkungskreis jüdischer Bemühungen wachsen die Pläne der internationalen Juden. Die Anhänger diese unheimlichen Bündnisses sind zumeist Menschen, die aus den Bevölkerungen derjenigen Länder, in denen die Juden wegen ihrer Rasse verfolgt werden, hervorgegangen sind. Die meisten, wenn nicht gar alle von ihnen, haben den Glauben ihrer Vorväter aufgegeben und sich von allen religiösen Hoffnungen abgewandt. Diese Bewegung unter den Juden ist nicht neu. Seit den Tagen von Spartacus-Weishaupt bis zu Karl Marx und weiter bis zu Trotzki (Rußland), Bela Kun (Ungarn), Rosa Luxemburg (Deutschland) und Emma Goldmann (Vereinigte Staaten) ist diese weltweite Verschwörung zum Sturz der Zivilisation und zur Neugestaltung einer Gesellschaft auf der Grundlage von Rückständigkeit, mißgünstiger Böswilligkeit und unmöglicher Gleichheit beständig gewachsen. Sie spielte, wie eine moderne Autorin, Frau Webster, überzeugend dargelegt hat, eine entscheidende und erkennbare Rolle in der Tragödie der Französischen Revolution. Sie ist die Haupttriebfeder einer jeden subversiven Bewegung des 19. Jahrhunderts gewesen, und heute hat diese Bande von ungewöhnlichen Individuen aus der Unterwelt der großen Städte Europas und Amerikas das russische Volk beim Schopf gepackt und ist praktisch der unbestrittene Herrscher dieses riesigen Reiches geworden.
Terroristische Juden. Es ist nicht nötig, den Anteil zu übertreiben, den diese internationalen und zum großen Teil atheistischen Juden bei der Errichtung des Bolschewismus und in der aktuellen Durchführung der russischen Revolution gespielt haben. Es ist zweifellos ein sehr großer Anteil, er überwiegt wahrscheinlich alle anderen. Mit Lenin als bemerkenswerter Ausnahme, besteht die Mehrheit der führenden Figuren aus Juden. Mehr noch, die prinzipielle Eingebung und treibende Kraft kommt von den jüdischen Führern. So ist Tschitscherin zwar ein Russe, er steht aber im Schatten seines nominell Untergebenen Litwinow, und der Einfluß von Russen wie Bucharin oder Lunatscharski kann nicht mit der Macht von Trotzki oder der von Sinowjew, dem Diktator der roten Zitadelle (Petrograd), oder von Krassin oder von Radek verglichen werden. Alles Juden. In den russischen öffentlichen Einrichtungen ist die Vorherrschaft der Juden sogar noch erstaunlicher. Und der hervorragende, wenn nicht gar der hauptsächlichste Anteil in diesem System des Terrorismus, bezogen auf die Außerordentliche Kommission zur Bekämpfung der Konterrevolution, ist mit Juden besetzt worden, in einigen Fällen sogar mit Jüdinnen. Die gleiche üble Prominenz wurde von Juden in der kurzen Zeit des Terrors, als Bela Kun in Ungarn regierte, gestellt. Dasselbe Phänomen zeigt sich in Deutschland (besonders in Bayern), als es diesem Wahnsinn erlaubt war, die gegenwärtige Schwäche des deutschen Volkes auszunutzen. Obwohl es in all diesen Ländern viele Nichtjuden gibt, alle genauso schlecht wie der schlimmste der jüdischen Revolutionäre, ist doch der Anteil der letzteren im Verhältnis zu ihrer Zahl an der Bevölkerung erstaunlich.“
Siehe auch
Englischsprachige Literatur
- Robert Wilton: The Last Days of the Romanovs. Hornton Butterworth, London 1920 – Der Verfasser war damals Rußland-Korrespondent der „London Times“. Er schrieb, die neue Sowjetregierung bestehe zu 90 Prozent aus Juden (S. 147, 22–28, 81, 118, 199, 127, 139–148).
Verweise
- Putin: First Soviet government was mostly Jewish, The Times of Israel, 19. Juni 2013
