Brooklyn Eagle · Brooklyn, New York · 19 December 1926
CP-1926-001
Fear Economic Domination
A warning about this one
The passage quoted here repeats an antisemitic trope about Jews and money. It is transcribed in full, including the sentence in which Chesterton says he would understand Jews denying it, because stopping the quotation earlier would misrepresent what the paper printed.
Transcribed from the clipping
“In his book, ‘The New Jerusalem,’ C. K. Chesterton gives eloquent expression to the same fear of the native Arab Palestinians.
‘Rightly or wrongly,’ he writes, ‘certain people in Palestine fear the coming of the Jew as they fear the coming of the locusts; they regard them as parasites that feed on a community by a thousand methods of financial intrigues and economic exploitation.
I could understand the Jews indignantly denying this, or eagerly disproving it, or best of all, explaining what is true in it while exposing what is untrue. What is strange, I might also say weird, about the attitude of some quite intelligent and sincere Zionists is that they talk, write and apparently think as if there were no such thing in the world.’”
Context added by this archive
The native Arab Palestinians, named as such in an American paper in 1926. The initials are the paper’s: it sets C. K. Chesterton.
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"Fear Economic Domination," Brooklyn Eagle, 19 December 1926, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1926-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1926-001
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