Is communism/socialism Jewish? Why are so many Jews leftist ?
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"Some call it Marxism - I call it Judaism.” Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, in the American Bulletin of May 15, 1935
●"The revolution in Russia is a Jewish revolution” The Maccabean (New York), Nov. 1905, p, 250
●"Jewry is the mother of Marxism.” Le Droit de Vivre, May 12, 1936
●"Judaism is Marxism, communism” Harry Waton, A Program for the Jews and an Answer to All Anti-Semites (New York: Committee for the Preservation of the Jews, 1939), p. 64
●"The communist soul is the soul of Judaism.” Harry Waton, A Program for the Jews and an Answer to All Anti-Semites (New York: Committee for the Preservation of the Jews, 1939), p. 143
●"We Jews cannot be called upon to denounce Communism.” The American Hebrew (New York), February 3, 1939, p. 11
●"The picture which the Soviet Union presents today is one that should bring rejoicing to world Jewry.” The Youngstown Jewish Times, Sept. 18, 1936, page 51
●"It would be absurd to deny the intensity of the Jewish participation in the Russian revolutionary movement.” Leon Dennen, in The Menorah Journal (New York) July-September 1932, p. 106
●"That achievement - the Russian-Jewish revolution - destined to figure in history as the overshadowing result of World War, was largely the outcome of Jewish thinking, of Jewish discontent, of Jewish effort to reconstruct.” The American Hebrew, September 10, 1920
●"The Bolshevik Government of Russia is the key-stone of the arch of the proof of the Jewish conspiracy for radicalism and world-domination.” William Hard, The Great Jewish Conspiracy (New York: American Jewish Book Company, 1920), p. 31
●"The Jewish elements provide the driving forces for communism” Dr. Oscar Levy, in George Pitt-Rivers, The World Significance of the Russian Revolution (Oxford, 1920), p. ix
●"The Jews [have been] furnishing for the Bolsheviks the majority of their leaders” The Jewish World (London), April 16, 1919, p. 11
●"Russian Jews have taken a prominent part in the Bolshevist movement” The American Hebrew (New York), November 18, 1927, p. 20
●"Jewry has come to wield a considerable power in the Communist Party.” Dr. Avrahm Yarmolinsky, in The Menorah Journal (New York), July 1928, p. 37
●"The East-Side Jew [Trotsky] that Conquered Europe” The liberator (New York), March 1920, pp. 26-27
●"The real East Sider [New York Jew Trotsky] is at the head of things in Russia.” M. L. Larkin, in The Public (New York), November 23, 1918, p. 1433
●"It is not an accident that Judaism gave birth to Marxism, and it is not an accident that the Jews readily took up Marxism; all this is in perfect accord with the progress of Judaism and the Jews.” Harry Waton, A Program for the Jews and an Answer to All Anti-Semites (New York: Committee for the Preservation of the Jews, 1939), p. 148
●"Karl Marx, who came from an old family of rabbis and brilliant Talmudic scholars, was to point the path of victory for the proletariat.” L. Rennap, Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Question (London, 1942), p. 31
●"Among his [Karl Marx’s] ancestors were Rabbis and Talmudists, men of learning and keen intellect.” Henry Wickham Steed, in The American Hebrew (New York), December 9, 1927, p. 206
●"The peculiarly Jewish logic of his [Karl Marx’s] mind” Henry Wickham Steed, in The American Hebrew (New York), December 9, 1927, p. 206
●"Mr. Wickham Steed lays the rise of Bolshevism at the doors of Jewry.” The Jewish Guardian (London), November 28, 1924, p. 4
●"The Bolshevik Revolution has emancipated the Jews as individuals” Dr. Avrahm Yarmolinsky, in The Menorah Journal (New York), July 1928, p. 33
●"There are many Bolshevik leaders of Jewish extraction” D. L. Sandelsan, in The Jewish Chronicle (London), February 20, 1920, p. 22
●"There is no Jew who does not hope with all his heart that the Soviet Union will survive and be victorious” Zionist Review (London: Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland), September 26, 1941, p. 7
●"Communism and internationalism are in truth and in fact great virtues. Judaism may be justly proud of these virtues” Harry Watan, A Program for the Jews and an Answer to All Anti-Semites (New York: Committee for the Preservation of the Jews, 1939), p. 80
●"If the tide of history does not turn toward Communist internationalism … then the Jewish race is doomed.” George Marlen, Stalin, Trotsky, or Lenin (New York, 1937), p. 414
●"The [Jewish] Commissaries were formerly political exiles. They had been dreaming of revolution for years in their exile in Paris, in London, in New York, in Berlin, everywhere and anywhere. They saw in the Bolshevist Movement an opportunity of realizing the extreme ideas of Communism and internationalism to which their fate had compelled them.” Dr. D. S. Pazmanik, in The Jewish Chronicle (London), September 5, 1919, p. 14
●"The Jewish people will never forget that the Soviet Union was the first country - and as yet the only country in the world - in which anti-Semitism is a crime.” Jewish Voice (New York: National Council of Jewish Communists), January 1942, p. 16
●"Anti-Semitism was classed [by the Soviet Government] as counter-revolution and the severe punishments meted out for acts of anti-Semitism were the means by which the existing order protected its own safety” The Congress Bulletin, (New York: American Jewish Congress), January 5, 1940, p. 2
●"There is no official anti-Semitism in Russia; anti-Semitism in Russia is a crime against the State.” Dr. Chalm Weizmann, The Jewish People and Palestine (London: Zionist Organization, 1939), p. 7
●"Anti-Communism is anti-Semitism.” Jewish Voice (New York: National Council of Jewish Communists), July-August 1941, p. 23
●"The part which Jews play in the [Communist] Government of the country [Russia] does not appear to be declining” Harry Sacher, in The Jewish Review (London), June-August 1932, p. 43
●"The Jews have a right to subordinate to themselves the rest of mankind and to be the masters over the whole earth. This is the historic destiny of the Jews” Harry Waton, A Program for the Jews and an Answer to All Anti-Semites (New York Committee for the Preservation of the Jews, 1939), pp. 99-100
●"We Jews, we the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever. Nothing that you will do, will meet our needs and demands. We will destroy because we need a world of our own.” Maurice Samuel, You Gentiles, page 155
●"The Russian intelligentsia . . . saw in the philosophy of Judaism the germs of Bolshevism - the struggle of ... Judaism versus Christianity.” Leon Dennen, in The Menorah Journal (New York, July-September 1932, p. 105
●"Soviet Russia has declared war on Christianity, and on those who profess this faith. In the Russian villages today Bolsheviks and Herbert H. Lehman . . . were called the ‘secret government of the United States’ and were linked with ‘world communism.’” Dr. Louis Harap, in Jewish Life (New York), June 1951, p. 20