Anti-Semitism as a political movement should not and cannot be determined by factors of sentiment, but only by the recognition of the facts. These are the facts:

To begin with, Jewry is unqualifiedly a racial association and not a religious association. . . . Its influence will bring about the racial tuberculosis of the people.

READ:
Labour Movements in Canada (1919)

Hence it follows: Anti-Semitism on purely emotional grounds will find its ultimate expression in the form of pogroms. Rational anti-semitism, however, must lead to a systematic legal opposition and elimination of the special privileges which Jews hold, in contrast to the other aliens living among us (aliens’ legislation). Its final objective must unswervingly be the removal of the Jews altogether. Only a government of national vitality is capable of doing both, and never a government of national impotence.

READ:
The Holocaust Chronology 1933-1945

(September 16, 1919)

Sources: Dawidowicz, Lucy S., A Holocaust Reader. West Orange: Behrman. 1976, p. 30 and Electric Zen: An Einsatzgruppen Electronic Repository.

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