Book Reviews and Suggestions

A British MP talks about the propaganda lies aimed at Germany during WWI. The book, written before WW2, must not have been very widely read since many of the lies were recycled the second time around...

A harrowing firsthand account of the brutal Israeli attack on a US spy ship during the 1967 mideast war, and the subsequent coverup.

The best book I've read yet on the subject of Zionism, Israel, and the Holocaust. Everyone should read this book, SERIOUSLY.

This is one of those books that is almost literally too hot to handle, except that it's not, really. Henry Ford has a peculiar place in the pantheon of American historical figures--he invented the modern assembly line and thus helped to popularize the automobile by making it affordable to the masses.

Around 1920 he published a series of articles on the subject of what he called "the international Jew", around which time he was quoted as saying that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion seemed to "match what was going on". One need not imagine the outcry--it continues to this day.

The question is--is the book worth reading? My answer has to be an emphatic yes. Wherever you stand on this issue, it is an essential work that must be considered in any study of so-called anti-semitism and its roots in America (as opposed to its much more complex and older roots in Europe.)

Having always thought of Henry Ford as the father of the automobile and not as a writer on world affairs it is interesting to say the least to read his thoughts on the so-caled "Jewish Question". Contrary to what we are led to believe by those who would prefer this book be burned rather than read, even critically, it is not in the form of a hateful screed (a trend I'm discovering is true of much allegedly "hateful anti-semitic" literature.)

Ford could hardly have provided modern historians with a better account of just what this "Jewish Question" was that so concerned him and others who have been unfairly labelled by history as simple "jew-haters". In his writing he is very much aware of the accusations (same then as now) that any interest in the study of Jewish group solidarity and power (both political and economic) must need be motivated by jealousy or historic-religious bigotry. In this we can all sympathize who have to contend with the gratuitous "anti-semite" smear when we do as little as take issue with the actions of AIPAC.

One problem no doubt stems from Ford's reliance on the Protocols that we are assured time and again are forgeries. Ford makes an excellent point however that whether forged or not they describe in some detail things that, from his vantage point between WWI and WW2, seem almost prophetic given their appearance as early as 1905 (they are nonetheless alleged to have been written in 1897 or thereabouts, speculated by many to have been authored by Theodore Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, with no evidence.)

While to the modern and enlightened reader much of Ford's writing will smell, if not actually read as quite possibly anti-jewish, perhaps most unfortunate is Ford's clear belief that the question of Jewish power in the world (i.e. independent of the states in which they reside) is of interest primarily to the dominant anglo-saxon racial majority in America whom are most threatened by what he sees as the Jews' much more developed sense of in-group identification and solidarity.

The modern and enlightened reader benefits of course from a more balanced approach to the issue of racial and ethnic conflict than possessed by Ford, who doubtless had much fewer problems with his "own people"'s subjugation of the native Americans than he has with what he sees as the subjugation of "his" people by a group better equipped than his to function in the emerging globalized world of his time.

What should be stressed here is that without understanding the representative points of view of the likes of Ford and, for that matter, Lindbergh, one can scarcely hope to evaluate with precision the claims of those who seem all too willing to cry "JOO-HATER!!" when even the smallest, most legitimate criticism of either Zionism, the state of Israel, or yes, even power brokers who happen to be Jewish, is raised.

Jewish History, Jewish Religion - The Weight of 3000 Years is the full title--a must read by a Jewish Israeli professor of chemistry and human rights advocate. Provides a critical look at classical Judaism (as practiced today by Orthodox Jews) its attitudes on non-Jews as well as its influence on modern Israeli politics. Did I say it was a must read?

Thanks Gretavo for posting this reading list. I wish I had five heads so I could read five books at a time, or three books and two journal articles. I copied and pasted all the info here into my ever-expanding Must Reads doc. Thanks. These look like highly interesting, info-filled works. I saw a long interview with Paul Findley on YouBeingWatchedTube giving a sample of what his book is all about. Wow. It's an ingenious, trojan horse-like occupation. Amazing.