The author of that article was William
Zukerman (1885 - 1961), a Russian-
born Jewish writer who emigrated to the U.S. and became the editor of
the Jewish Newsletter and wrote for Reader's Digest amongst others:
born Jewish writer who emigrated to the U.S. and became the editor of
the Jewish Newsletter and wrote for Reader's Digest amongst others:
In 1934 he wrote The Menace of Jewish
Fascism which appeared
in The Nation:
The grimness of the paradox is increased by the fact that Jewish fascism is in its origin, aims, and tactics more akin to the Teutonic brand of that movement than to the Italian. Not only is the uniform of the Jewish Fascist Party brown, but its driving force, like that of the Germans, is also a strong feeling of national wrong, and its source of inspiration is one of the treaties resulting from the World War. Its following, like that of the Nazis, is recruited from among the nationalist youth. The movement, naturally, also has its Leader, a journalist of great proficiency well versed in the art of stage dramatics, and its forces, like those of the Nazis, are also divided into storm troops (Brith Trumpeldor") and bodyguards (Brith-Chail"), To complete the comparison, Jewish fascism also advocates "revolutionary" action against both Marxists and a foreign government, and its forces are drilling under Polish military officers in preparation for some war known only to their leaders. ...
The Zionist movement, like all nationalist movements, is the most fertile field for fascism. Under the guise of nationalistic grievances and demands, fascist sentiments can easily pass unnoticed, and they now do in Zionism. Jewish orthodoxy openly embraces the fascist program, political as well as economic. Other parties, not so frank in their avowal, are tacit supporters of the most extreme demands of fascism. In Poland there is no longer any distinction between the fascist and the Zionist press. In America the "revolutionary" antiBritish stand is awakening sympathy. In Palestine, it is true, labor is putting up a brave and strong fight, but it is a lone fight which has the support only of a few individual Zionist liberals. The bulk of the Zionist movement gravitates toward fascism, although Zionists are mostly not aware of it, and the majority would indignantly deny that their pure, selfless nationalism, which wants nothing of others, or even that their "Great Zionism," as Jewish fascism often calls itself, has anything in common with the brutal fascism of Germany.
The Menace of Jewish Fascism
By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
The Nation, April 25, 1934
London, April 2
