History Forum / General / General Topics / January 2007

Zionism versus Bolshevism: A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People

By Winston Churchill.

SOME people like Jews and some do not; but no thoughtful man can doubt the
fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most
remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.

And it may well be that this same astounding race may at the present time be
in the actual process of producing another system of morals and philosophy,
as malevolent as Christianity was benevolent, which, if not arrested would
shatter irretrievably all that Christianity has rendered possible. It would
almost seem as if the gospel of Christ and the gospel of Antichrist were
destined to originate among the same people; and that this mystic and
mysterious race had been chosen for the supreme manifestations, both of the
divine and the diabolical.

The National Russian Jews, in spite of the disabilities under which they
have suffered, have managed to play an honourable and successful part in the
national life even of Russia. As bankers and industrialists they have
strenuously promoted the development of Russia's economic resources, and
they were foremost in the creation of those remarkable organisations, the
Russian Co-operative Societies. In politics their support has been given,
for the most part, to liberal and progressive movements, and they have been
among the staunchest upholders of friendship with France and Great Britain.

International Jews.

In violent opposition to all this sphere of Jewish effort rise the schemes
of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are
mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews
are persecuted on account of their race. Most, if not all, of them have
forsaken the faith of their forefathers, and divorced from their minds all
spiritual hopes of the next world. This movement among the Jews is not new.
From the days of Spartacus--Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to
Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma
Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of
civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested
development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been
steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster, has so ably
shown, a definitely recognisable part in the tragedy of the French
Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during
the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary
personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America
have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become
practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

Terrorist Jews.

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism
and an the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution: by these
international and for the most part atheistic Jews. It is certainly a very
great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of
Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the principal
inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders. Thus
Tchitcherin, a pure Russian, is eclipsed by his nominal subordinate
Litvinoff, and the influence of Russians like Bukharin or Lunacharski cannot
be compared with the power of Trotsky, or of Zinovieff, the Dictator of the
Red Citadel (Petrograd), or of Krassin or Radek -- all Jews. In the Soviet
institutions the predominance of Jews is even more astonishing. And the
prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism
applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution
has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses.

The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror
during which Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been
presented in Germany (especially in Bavaria), so far as this madness has
been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people.
Although in all these countries there are many non-Jews every whit as bad as
the worst of the Jewish revolutionaries, the part played by the latter in
proportion to their numbers in the population is astonishing.

"Protector of the Jews."

Needless to say, the most intense passions of revenge have been excited in
the breasts of the Russian people. Wherever General Denikin's authority
could reach, protection was always accorded to the Jewish population, and
strenuous efforts were made by his officers to prevent reprisals and to
punish those guilty of them. So much was this the case that the Petlurist
propaganda against General Denikin denounced him as the Protector of the
Jews. The Misses Healy, nieces of Mr. Tim Healy, relating their personal
experiences in Kieff, have declared that to their knowledge on more than one
occasion officers who committed offences against Jews were reduced to the
ranks and sent out of the city to the front. But the hordes of brigands by
whom the whole vast expanse of the Russian Empire is becoming infested do
not hesitate. to gratify their lust for blood and for revenge at the expense
of the innocent Jewish population whenever an opportunity occurs. The
brigand Makhno, the hordes of Petlura and of Gregorieff, who signalised
their every success by the most brutal massacres, everywhere found among the
half-stupefied, half-infuriated population an eager response to
anti-Semitism in its worst and foulest forms. The fact that in many cases
Jewish interests and Jewish places of worship are excepted by the Bolsheviks
from their universal hostility has tended more and more to associate the
Jewish race in Russia with the villainies which are now being perpetrated.

A Home for the Jews.

Zionism offers the third sphere to the political conceptions of the Jewish
race. In violent contrast to international communism.

Zionism has already become a factor in the political convulsions of Russia,
as a powerful competing influence in Bolshevik circles with the
international communistic system. Nothing could be more significant than the
fury with which Trotsky has attacked the Zionists generally, and Dr.
Weissmann in particular. The cruel penetration of his mind leaves him in no
doubt that his schemes of a world-wide communistic State under Jewish
domination are directly thwarted and hindered by this new ideal, which
directs the energies and the hopes of Jews in every land towards a simpler,
a truer, and a far more attainable goal. The struggle which is now beginning
between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for
the soul of the Jewish people.

Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 8, 1920, page 5.