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2005-02-03 23:40 | User Profile

From the Washington Post, July 10, 1927

Fascism's efforts toward rapproachment of the Italian state with the Catholic Church have been accompanied by a spirit of tolerance toward all religious faiths, winning for it the whole-hearted support of Italian Jewry, according to Dr. Angelo Sacerdoti, Chief Rabbi of Rome. "The march on Rome and the advent of fascism in no way injured the position of Jews in Italy. A vast majority of our co-religionists support enthusiastically Premier Mussolini's work of national restoration." "The number of Jewish members of the Fascist party is quite large. Moreover, fascism has consistently made its choices of men for important posts on the basis of ability and not of religious faith." "Three Jews are on the committee of eighteen, entrusted to study changes in the constitution. There were two on thr Italian delegation to Geneva economic conference. In fact, there are few important commissions in which we are not represented." "During the early period of fascism - the so-called violent period - no representative of Italian Jewry and no Jewish institution ever suffered pressure or violence. At the same time, the government always accepted favorably the requests of the Zionist organization. It was even represented by a special committe at the inauguration of the Hebrew University in Palestine in 1925." "Jews approve fascism's major ideas such as insistence upon discipline and strict law observance. We also welcome fascism's preachment on the sanctity of the family, the social duty of labor and its rejection of birth control." [URL=http://parkinglot.freewebspace.com/jewsfascism.pdf]Original article, PDF[/URL] --- ### Petr *2005-02-04 00:23* | [User Profile](/od/user/1012) Few people know nowadays that in the 1920s and early 1930s, many right-wing Jews were downright [B]enthusiastic[/B] about Mussolini's regime - the revisionist wing of Zionism was considerably influenced by Italian Fascism: [url]http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ironwall/08-fascter.htm[/url] [COLOR=DarkRed][SIZE=4][SIZE=3]Ever Closer to Fascist Italy[/SIZE][/SIZE] By the mid-1930s, in spite of his remaining cavils over Fascism as a system, Jabotinsky increasingly oriented towards Italy. In November 1934, Mussolini set up a Betar squadron at his scuola marittima at Civitavecchia. There, 134 cadets were trained by the notorious Black- shirts and, in 1936, Il Duce himself reviewed his Zionist wards. [32] Setting up the school in Italy could only confirm the world’s image of Revisionism as Fascist but the imperious Jabotinsky scarcely cared. He wrote to one of his Italian followers, who was handling the negotiations with the regime, that they could have set up the school elsewhere but “we ... prefer to have it established in Italy”. [33] By April 1935, Jabotinsky had become little more than a defence attorney for Mussolini and, while in America on tour, he wrote an article, “Jews and Fascism – some Remarks – and a Warning” for an English-language Zionist paper, the Jewish Daily Bulletin: [I]Whatever any few think of Fascism’s other points, there is no doubt that the Italian brand of Fascist ideology is, at least an ideology of racial equality. Let us not be so humble as to pretend that this does not matter – that racial equality is too insignificant an idea to out-balance the absence of civic freedom. For it is not true. I am a journalist who would choke without freedom of the press, but I affirm it is simply blasphemous to say that in the scale of civic rights, even the freedom of the press comes before the equality of all men. Equality comes first, always first, super first; and Jews should remember it, and to hold that a regime maintaining that principle in a world turned cannibal does, partly, but considerably atone for its other shortcomings; it may be criticized, it should not be kicked at. There are enough other terms for cussing use – Nazism, Hitlerism, Polizeistaat, etc. – but the word “fascismo” is Italy’s copyright and should therefore be reserved only for the correct kind of discussion, not for exercises in Billingsgate. Especially as it may yet prove very harmful. That government of the copyright is a very powerful factor, whose sympathy may yet ward off many a blow, for instance in the League of Nations councils. Incidentally, the Permanent Mandate Commission which supervises Palestinian affairs has an Italian chairman. In short – thought I don’t expect street-urchins (irrespective of age) to follow advice of caution – responsible leaders ought to take note. [34][/I] The apologist for “fascismo” was naturally quite impressed by the Italian romp over Ethiopia – England is now by far not the strongest power in the Mediterranean’ – and, by 1936, he became convinced that it was time to shop around for a new mandatory – preferably one with the proper willingness to use the sternest measures against the Arabs. “Logically,” he wrote a friend, [I]the Ersatz could be either Italy, or some condominium of less anti-Semitic States interested in Jewish immigration, or a direct Geneva Mandate, or a fourth alternative which I’ll touch upon later. Before June 30-July 15 I sounded alternative no.1. Result: not yet ripe, not by a long shot. [35][/I] Jacob de Haas, a co-worker with Herzl, had come over to Revisionism in the mid-1930s and the old Zionist warhorse had chaired the founding congress of the New Zionist Organization, in Vienna, in September 1935. On his return to America he described the gathering in his weekly column for Chicago’s Jewish Chronicle: “The delegates were not fascists, but having lost all faith in democracy they were not anti-fascist. They were however very anti-Communistic.” [36] The old man was writing in America, he did not consider himself a fascist, which would have been ludicrous in America, so he convinced himself that his comrades were only anti- democratic. But Wolfgang von Weisl, the financial director of the NZO, and its diplomatic representative in Eastern Europe, was certainly much more accurate when he told a Bucharest diplomatic paper that “although opinions among the Revisionists varied, in general they sympathized with Fascism”. He assured his interlocutor that “He personally was a supporter of Fascism, and he rejoiced at the victory of Fascist Italy in Abyssinia as a triumph of the White races against the Black.” [37] Such opinions made for much popularity in Rome and it was Mussolini himself who told David Prato, later to become Chief Rabbi of Rome, that: [B][I]For Zionism to succeed you need to have a Jewish state, with a Jewish flag and a Jewish language. The person who really understands that is your fascist, Jabotinsky. [38][/I][/B][/COLOR] It was on not until 1938 that Mussolini began to take cue from Hitler and instituting racially discriminatory laws against Jews. (As a side note, Communism was also a much more Gentile-driven movement in Italy than it was elsewhere in Europe. Even the most influential Italian Communist intellectual, Antonio Gramsci, was a half-Albanian Gentile from Sardinia.) [url]http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/essays/essay_13.html[/url] [COLOR=Blue] "As historian Roger Eatwell observes, 'The Jewish community in Italy was small; only 47,000 in 1938. Jews tended to be a socially important group, playing a particularly notable role in banking, commerce and the professions, but there was little anti-Semitism in Italy'. [B]Indeed, a significant number of Italian Jews were members of the PNF, and in places like Ferrara Jewish community members were important financial patrons of the Fascist party. [/B] [B]Eatwell says that 230 Jews took part in the March on Rome. Mussolini himself had a Jewish mistress, Margherita Sarfatti, who was associated with the Novecento art movement. [/B] All of these factors strongly suggest a degree of either assimilation of the Italian Jewish community, or at least an environment of acceptance of Jews in both Italian society and Mussolini's developing fascist movement. [B]Anti-Semitism was absent from early Italian fascist ideology; in fact, according to many historians, Mussolini had been scornful of Hitler's obsession about race and what Zeev Sternhell described as the Nazi's criterion of biological determinism. [/B] Richard Bessel says that 'the key contrast between Fascist and Nazi regimes is the latter's fixation upon race and its determination to put racialist ideology into practice…'. Lyttelton talks of 'the autonomy and centrality of Nazi ant-Semitism, for which we can find no equivalent in Italian Fascism.' [/COLOR] Petr --- ### Otho_Isch *2005-02-04 08:23* | [User Profile](/od/user/316) From the ass's mouth: [URL=http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=585]Fascism and Zionism: World Zionist Organization[/URL] --- ### Petr *2005-08-05 22:21* | [User Profile](/od/user/1012) Ping! --- ### Exelsis_Deo *2005-08-06 01:38* | [User Profile](/od/user/280) there's about as much jewry controlling Italy as the peanut sheath that sticks between your tooth. Ignorant Americans. Horrid what America is.. hate my own country and the fact that is not a country anymore. KILL THEM. NOW. ANd begin over again according to the Constitution. I MEAN IT So did those who killed JFK. Only they were Evil, and We are NOT. --- ### Exelsis_Deo *2005-08-06 01:41* | [User Profile](/od/user/280) I will be here when you are paying 75 % taxes I will be here when you bomb and invade Iran, China and any country with a MIND that dares to stand up you the DEMONIC BEASTS that control YOU American Fool and that's not just a John Cougar album. --- ### Ponce *2005-08-06 02:38* | [User Profile](/od/user/901) Remember that those wakos have a direct line with God.....and God told them "I give you Palestine and here is the pink slip" I am very glad to see that more and more people are talking about and against the Jews (Zionists) I only hope that it wont be to late before they take action. ---