In 1920, Oscar Levy Warned about The Jews

No, you are not vulgar, you are a very enlightened critic of our Race. For there is an anti-Semitism, I hope and trust, which does the Jews more justice than any blind philo-Semitism, than does that merely sentimental “Let-them-all-come Liberalism” which in itself is nothing but the Semitic Ideology over again.  And thus you can be just to the Jews without being ‘romantic about them.

You have noticed with alarm that the Jewish elements provide the driving forces for both Communism and capitalism, for the material as well as the spiritual ruin of this world.

But then you have at the same time, the profound suspicion that the reason of all this extraordinary behavior may be the intense Idealism of the Jew. In this, you are perfectly right. …

From Moses to Marx, from Isaiah to Eisner, in practice and in theory, in idealism and in materialism, in philosophy and in politics, they are today what they have always been: passionately devoted to their aims and to their purposes, and ready, nay, eager, to shed their last drop of blood for the realization of their visions.

MANKIND SUFFERS FOR JEWISH FOLLY   

To this question, I have only one answer to give, and it is this: “You are right”.

This reproach of yours, which — I feel it for certain — is at the bottom of your anti-Semitism, is only too well justified, and upon this common ground I am quite willing to shake hands with you and defend you against any accusation of promoting Race Hatred: If you are anti-Semite, I, the Semite am an anti-Semite too, and a much more fervent one than even you are. . .

 We (Jews) have erred, my friend; we have most grievously erred. And if there was truth in our error 3,000, 2,000, nay, 100 years ago, there is now nothing but falseness and madness… a madness that will produce an even greater misery and even wider anarchy.

 I confess it to you, openly and sincerely, and with a sorrow whose depth and pain an ancient Psalmist, and only he could moan into this burning universe of ours. . .

We who have posed as the saviors of the world; we who have even boasted of having given it “the” Saviour; we are today nothing else but the world’s seducers, its destroyers, its incendiaries, its executioners.

We who have promised to lead you to a new Heaven, we have finally succeeded in leading you into a new Hell. . .

There has been no progress, least of all moral progress. . . And it is just our Morality, which has prohibited all real progress, and — what is worse — which even stands in the way of every future and natural reconstruction in this ruined world of ours. . .

I look at this world, and I shudder at its ghastliness; I shudder all the more as I know the spiritual authors of all this ghastliness. . .