THE SAGES: BENJAMIN DISRAELI (1858)

One oddity of Jewry’s relationships with others is that they themselves produce some, if not most, of their most devastating critics. Statements made without proof are only statements. A prominent figure in history may err in his commentary, as anyone else may. Still, it is striking that so many such prominent figures have seen that it was fit and important to address the issue of Jewry in some facet or other. That Jews do so too lends credence to allegations. if such critics are non-Jews, Jewry replied typically with charges of persecution and anti-Semitism; if done by Jews, then these critics are denounced as “Jew-hating Jews.”

For such characteristics Jewry has rightly seized the crown offered by the world community to the global king of “stone-walling.” Jews entertain no critism gladly – or quietly.

Our sage for today was a Jew who “converted” to Anglicanism, which conversion allowed him to become Prime Minister of the U.K. Consider his observation carefully:

“They [the Jews] are not the only people who are usurers, gladiators, and followers of mean and scandalous occupations, nor are they anywhere a majority of such, but considering their general numbers, they contribute perhaps more than their proportion to the aggregate of the vile.”

[see Benjamin Disraeli, Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography (London, England: Archibald Constable and Company, 1805) p.319, cited by Ted R. Weiland, God's Covenant People, p.129]

One might imagine that Mr. Disraeli is not one to exaggerate an assertion but, rather, to be cautious in his measures.

Downnlaced, 2009