Two Views of the Court Jew

Henry Ford on "The International Jew"

The Jew's aptitude for dealing with governments may also be traced to the years of his persecution. He early learned the power of gold in dealing with mercenary enemies. Wherever he went there followed him like a curse the aroused antipathy of other peoples. The Jew was never popular as a race; even the most fervid Jew will not deny that, howsoever he may explain it. Individuals have been popular, of course; many phases of Jewish nature are found to be very lovable when known; but nevertheless one of the burdens the Jews have had to bear as a race is this burden of racial unpopularity. Even in modern times, in civilized countries, in conditions which render persecution absolutely impossible, this unpopularity exists. And what is more, the Jew has not seemed to care to cultivate the friendship of the Gentile masses, due perhaps to the failures of experience, but due more likely to his inborn persuasion that he belongs to a superior race. Whatever the true reason, he has always placed his main dependence on cultivating friendship with kings and nobles. What cared the Jew if the people gnashed their teeth against him, so long as the king and the court were his friends? Thus there was always, even through most of the severely trying times, "a court Jew," one who had bought by loans and held by the strangle-hold of debt an entrance to the king's chamber. The policy of the Jews has always been to "go to headquarters." They never tried to placate the Russian people, but they did endeavor to enlist the Russian court. They never tried to placate the German people, but they did succeed in permeating the German court. In England they shrug their shoulders at the outspoken anti-Jew reactions of the British populace -- what care they? Have they not all of lorddom at their heels, do they not hold the strings of Britain's purse?

Through this ability of theirs to "go to headquarters" it is possible to account for the stronghold they got upon various governments and nations. Added to this ability was, of course, the ability to produce what the governments wanted. If a government wanted a loan, the Jew at court could arrange it through Jews at other financial centers and political capitals. If one government wanted to pay another government a debt without risking the precious metal to a mule train through a robber-infested country, the Jew at court arranged that too. He transferred a piece of paper and the debt was paid by the banking house at the foreign capital. The first time an army was ever fed in the modern commissary way, it was done by a Jew -- he had the capital and he had the system; moreover he had the delight of having a nation for his customer.

And this tendency, which served the race so well throughout the troublous centuries, shows no sign of abatement. Certainly, seeing to what an extent a race numerically so unimportant influences the various governments of the world today, the Jew who reflects upon the disparity between his people's numbers and their power may be pardoned if he sees in that fact a proof of their racial superiority.

Source: Henry Ford, The Dearborn Independent, 22 May 1920, cited at: www.noontidepress.com/books/ford/ij01.html


Open Letter to Paul Wolfowitz from Josh Ruebner

Lately I have come to the disturbing conclusion that the Bush Administration is using you as its "court Jew"' par excellence. . . .

Court Jew is a term that originates in the context of anti-Semitism in `enlightened' Europe. On that blood-soaked continent, the reigning monarchs and other despotic rulers thought up an ingenious system to perpetuate their oppressive systems of government.

These shrewd, Machiavellian rulers made a pact with an elite, assimilationist group of Jewish subjects who craved acceptance by those in power.

Often, these ambitious Jews were eager to serve the interests of the rulers so that they could ease their feelings of internalised self-hatred. Serving those in power was a way to overcome the marginality and stigmas associated with being Jewish - stigmas that were built into the very fabric of society by those people to begin with.

The rulers understood this yearning to enter the halls of power, and took advantage by dangling a carrot of illusional power before the hungry eyes of this wayward Jewish elite. These court Jews were given politically unimportant yet highly visible positions within the regime.

Why? So that when the subjected masses rose up from time to time in justified outrage at the oppressive nature of the regime under which they lived, there was a convenient readymade scapegoat in place.

The court Jew, as a highly visible symbol of the regime, served as the lightning-rod to bear the brunt of the blame and deflect criticism from where it belonged rightfully. Brother, need I remind you how disastrous it was for our people to be the target of this rage? I think that you would agree that, in retrospect, it would have been better not to have played the fool for those European monarchs. But, alas, the tragic mistakes of history do tend to repeat themselves.

Source: Abridged from http://www.mediamonitors.net/joshruebner4.html