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Pre-WW2 Churchill article says Jews partly to blame for anti-Semitism
By Reuters

A historian has uncovered a pre-World War Two article Winston Churchill wrote about the persecution of Jews but then decided not to publish. In the long lost article, the British wartime leader disapproved of the treatment they experienced but did say of the Jews: "They have been partly responsible for the antagonism from which they suffer."

Cambridge University lecturer Richard Toye, reflecting on his find, said: "While most people would accept that Churchill was no anti-Semite, this sheds fascinating new light on his views about Jews which were very inconsistent."

While researching in the university's Churchill archives, the historian uncovered the unpublished article in a pile of proofs and press cuttings. "It was a dramatic moment," he said.
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"How The Jews Can Combat Persecution," originally written in 1937 when it failed to find a publisher, was finally picked up in 1940 for publication by the Sunday Depatch newspaper.

But when the paper's editor formally asked for permission to use the piece, Churchill's office wrote back and refused, saying publication was "inadvisable."

Within weeks, Churchill became prime minister, leading the fight against the Nazi regime which murdered six million Jews in the Holocaust.

"He may well have had second thoughts. When he looked at it again, he may well have thought it wasn't the most intelligent thing to say," Toye told Reuters in an interview.

He uncovered the article while researching for a book he was writing on "Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals For Greatness."

In the piece, Churchill argued that "the wickedness of the persecutors" was not the only reason for the ill-treatment of Jews down the ages.

He called Jews sober, industrious and law-abiding and praised their readiness to fight and die for the country they lived in.

But he added: "Yet there are times when one feels instinctively that all this is only another manifestation of the difference, the separateness of the Jew."

Echoing modern-day debates about multi-culturalism, Churchill criticised what he called the "aloofness" of Jewish people from wider society and urged them to make the effort to integrate.

He criticized Jewish employers in the clothing trade for exploiting the readiness of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to work for lower wages. He also criticized the refugees themselves for their readiness to accept rock-bottom salaries.

Toye said "I do find it perverse to blame persecuted people for their own persecution. There is a lot of contorted logic there."

Speculating on why the article never saw the light of day, he concluded: "In terms of its potential impact on public opinion, it was one thing to say these things in 1937 but quite different to say them in 1940 when Britain was at war.
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  1.   its a lovely pro-palestinian week 04:27  |  Tamir Gaza 11/03/07
  2.   partly to blame 04:55  |  ljf-canada 11/03/07
  3.   churchill 05:04  |  rubin 11/03/07
  4.   From given quotations i don`r see "Churchill article says Jews... 05:28  |  Vittorio 11/03/07
  5.   how to access the original?? 06:12  |  Paul 11/03/07
  6.   Jews are a pain in the neck 06:13  |  Jew boy 11/03/07
  7.   Churchill: Fight the Jew Bolsjevism 06:17  |  eklein 11/03/07
  8.   Churchill could be talking about Muslems... 06:25  |  The Barber 11/03/07
  9.   Wellll.... 06:36  |  Colin Wright 11/03/07
  10.   Tamir in London 06:40  |  G 11/03/07
  11.   Tamir in London 06:40  |  G 11/03/07
  12.   Reuters is owned by Saudi Arabians 06:49  |  FYI 11/03/07
  13.   "Pre-WWII Churchill-Jews partly blme for antisemitism 06:53  |  Yoash T siddo-Chatto 11/03/07
  14.   Churchill Antisemitism 07:05  |  Cyclist 11/03/07
  15.   Churchil`s Mother is half Jewish 07:06  |  Ron 11/03/07
  16.   In WW2, European countries cared about themselves only 07:08  |  Dan 11/03/07
  17.   Another anti-Jewish title by Reuters 07:32  |  William 11/03/07
  18.   anti Semitism 07:47  |  gershon 11/03/07
  19.   Churchill & the Jews 07:52  |  Michael J. Cohen 11/03/07
  20.   Yoash 08:04  |  Brad 11/03/07
  21.   Churchill DID NOT WRITE this paper! 08:14  |  Nadav Gabay 11/03/07
  22.   Two sides of the same coin 08:23  |  Gordon Drennan 11/03/07
  23.   Churchill`s racism 08:37  |  RedStarYeast 11/03/07
  24.   Pre-WW2 Churchill article says Jews partly to blame for anti-Semi 09:05  |  ExpatEgghead 11/03/07
  25.   Rubin the Liar 09:12  |  anon 11/03/07
  26.   #21 Widely known that Churchill didn`t write this paper 09:15  |  Pablo B 11/03/07
  27.   Always Complaining 09:21  |  Christian 11/03/07
  28.   English racism and arrogance 09:53  |  Star of David 11/03/07
  29.   The English have always been loathsome anti-semites 09:56  |  Jamilah Asadi 11/03/07
  30.   You must have written this in your hate-induced sleep 10:00  |  Jamila Asadi 11/03/07
  31.   #19 Micheal J. Cohen. Pleased to meet you. 10:03  |  Maureen Ann 11/03/07
  32.   what Churchill said about Arabs 10:06  |  Jon 11/03/07
  33.   Anno 2007 Churchill would have said the same about muslims 10:23  |  Sara 11/03/07
  34.   Who knows what Bush, Clinton, Blair actually said about Iraq war 10:26  |  Sara 11/03/07
  35.   sure what do you expect 10:30  |  cool 11/03/07
  36.   Did he write it? - To Nadav.... 10:38  |  John Mackie 11/03/07
  37.   Right of return? 10:40  |  South African Jew 11/03/07
  38.   NOTHING NEW HERE !! THE NAZIS SAID THE SAME 10:42  |  paul harris 11/03/07
  39.   ..and Is-it-real is responsible for... 10:47  |  samos 11/03/07
  40.   English racism and arrogance - (Slur of David) 10:49  |  John Mackie 11/03/07
  41.   keep digging zionism for more surprises 10:52  |  arab 11/03/07
  42.   Jerusalem - English Racism.... 10:54  |  John Mackie 11/03/07
  43.   WHY not establish the authenticity before discussing it. 11:03  |  PETER SM 11/03/07
  44.   I do not agree with Churchills conclusions on this letter, but... 11:04  |  Swiss (Dino) 11/03/07
  45.   Very Similar to what Muslims are facing today in Europe 11:14  |  An Arab Neighbor 11/03/07
  46.   CHURCHILL`S VISION IS TIMELESS 11:15  |  indrajaya 11/03/07
  47.   Churchill when younger thought Protocols were real 11:31  |  McQueen 11/03/07
  48.   #31 MAUREEN THE IGNORANT!!!! 11:38  |  alonitzafoni 11/03/07
  49.   to #31 the Bathurst Belle parks her broom on truthseeker.com 11:42  |  Ari ben Yisrael 11/03/07
  50.   SOUTH AFRICAN JEW #37 11:47  |  alonitzafoni 11/03/07
  51.   Much like the Dixie Chicks... 11:52  |  Clickfool 11/03/07
  52.   Not much doubt Churchill wrote about"Mohammedans"threat to Europe 12:00  |  PETER SM 11/03/07
  53.   churchill should have remembered his bible 12:20  |  flashman 11/03/07
  54.   in fact churchill was a friend of the jews 12:21  |  flashman 11/03/07
  55.   INDIRAJAYA.CHURCHILLS VISION ON MOHAMMEDANS.?TIMELESS? 12:30  |  PETER SM 11/03/07
  56.   Churchill 12:46  |  Naim S. Mahlab 11/03/07
  57.   indrajaya the most poor and wretched palestinian 12:53  |  tommy suharto 11/03/07
  58.   indrajaya the food the palestinians eat 13:07  |  tommy suharto 11/03/07
  59.   #48alonitzifoni Why did`t England/allies... 13:07  |  Maureen Ann 11/03/07
  60.   Individual Jew and all the other Jews. 13:10  |  David Bernstein 11/03/07
  61.   why didn´t they bomb the railways conducting to camps? 13:16  |  hipolito 11/03/07
  62.   So Churchill was maybe a little anti-semitic. Who cares? 13:34  |  Michael 11/03/07
  63.   Morals of the story? 13:50  |  EhadHaAm 11/03/07
  64.   #46 INDY GETS THE LAUGH OF THE MONTH 13:58  |  paul harris 11/03/07
  65.   Churchill, congruent to the Cavler`s opinion... 14:08  |  cavler crociatus 11/03/07
  66.   #44 swiss 14:11  |  duncan 11/03/07
  67.   Maureen Ann, should we be impressed with Henry Makow`s Ph.D??? 14:14  |  Mimi 11/03/07
  68.   Winston Churchill was a Saint er well a hero,ok? 14:20  |  Ronnie Wolman 11/03/07
  69.   #62michael 14:22  |  duncan 11/03/07
  70.   indrajaya how many well fed palestinians 14:25  |  tommy suharto 11/03/07
  71.   What Martin Gilbert would say? 14:29  |  Benlolo 11/03/07
  72.   They should publish this in full 14:58  |  Ilan 11/03/07
  73.   # 66 duncan 15:00  |  Swiss (Dino) 11/03/07
  74.   HISTORY and CONTEXT are important 15:03  |  The Equalizer 11/03/07
  75.   i am a jew and churchills artical does not 15:04  |  yahn goodey 11/03/07
  76.   Benlolo, Martin Gilbert & HAARETZ 15:08  |  Gershon Overlander 11/03/07
  77.   Churchill is right 15:10  |  Gene 11/03/07
  78.   The seperateness of the Jews 15:15  |  Boris 11/03/07
  79.   ANTISEMITISM IN THE THIRTYS. 15:43  |  gilberto 11/03/07
  80.   TO TAMIR gaza 15:52  |  gil 11/03/07
  81.   Regarding Tamir 16:00  |  Nik Miller 11/03/07
  82.   Anyone know where I can read the whole essay? 16:00  |  Mark Lincoln 11/03/07
  83.   Churchill 16:38  |  bob poris 11/03/07
  84.   Churchhill article 16:48  |  Gabriel 11/03/07
  85.   Historians clash over Churchill `anti-Semitism` 16:57  |  Dolland 11/03/07
  86.   Churchill`s legacy 17:02  |  Jason 11/03/07
  87.   #83 Bob Poris 17:14  |  Dolland 11/03/07
  88.   victim ho! 17:24  |  edgar 11/03/07
  89.   Amen to 86- Churchill Hero to All 17:26  |  Humanist 11/03/07
  90.   Boris: you should be ashamed 17:47  |  Ronnie Wolman 11/03/07
  91.   How do we judge people? 18:23  |  Joseph 11/03/07
  92.   Do we have a double standard? 18:27  |  Ben Azai 11/03/07
  93.   @6, jew boy 18:30  |  vladimir 11/03/07
  94.   Another own goal? 18:32  |  Sherlock Holmes 11/03/07
  95.   @15, ron, churchill´s mother half jewis? are you 18:42  |  vladimir 11/03/07
  96.   #eklein did you know 18:53  |  Eva 11/03/07
  97.   how to sound really smart at dinner parties 18:54  |  Galgal ha-Khozer 11/03/07
  98.   Well that explains 18:55  |  Chris Linthwaite 11/03/07
  99.   Tamir Gaza What comes around 19:03  |  Eva 11/03/07
  100.   Integration vs. Jewishness 20:03  |  Jew Girl 11/03/07
  101.   think about it..... 20:06  |  Jeff 11/03/07
  102.   77 Gene is wrong and so is Churchill 20:10  |  Jew Girl 11/03/07
  103.   @93 Goyim think Jews are different but they ain`t that different 20:15  |  Jew Girl 11/03/07
  104.   what to do? 20:19  |  anon 11/03/07
  105.   @101 you are provoking war! 20:20  |  Angry Jew Girl 11/03/07
  106.   Friends are allowed to make constructive criticism 20:26  |  Jake 11/03/07
  107.   the blind debating the elephant 20:27  |  Ilan 11/03/07
  108.   # 22 Gordon Drennan 20:27  |  ChanahS 11/03/07
  109.   Tamir Gaza, making the usual mistakes 20:32  |  Jake 11/03/07
  110.   Nadav Gabay is write; the `article` was written by Diston 20:39  |  Jake 11/03/07
  111.   Churchill was a FRIEND of the Jews and Zionism. Period 20:41  |  Jake 11/03/07
  112.   mark lincoln when has the totality ever concerned you? 20:42  |  ephraim 11/03/07
  113.   SIr Winston Churchill hero 20:44  |  Pau 11/03/07
  114.   mark lincoln "he learned in gallipoli" 20:47  |  ephraim 11/03/07
  115.   I hope everything here realizes 20:53  |  Michael O. 11/03/07
  116.   I hope everyone here realizes 20:57  |  Michael O. 11/03/07
  117.   Churchill`s mother was a JEWISH! 20:57  |  Jeff 11/03/07
  118.   Jeanette (Jennie) Jerome CI DStJ, known also as Lady Randolph Chu 21:00  |  Goldi 11/03/07
  119.   Churchill was a Zionist 21:12  |  Jonathan S 11/03/07
  120.   Tamir Gaza 21:23  |  Realistic 11/03/07
  121.   59# MAUREEN ANN 21:25  |  alonitzafoni 11/03/07
  122.   Who else can we pick on????? 21:30  |  Ronnie Wolman 11/03/07
  123.   Indy 21:32  |  Indiana Jones 11/03/07
  124.   To Michael COHEN #19 21:51  |  Otto Rand 11/03/07
  125.   G 21:55  |  Tamir Gaza 11/03/07
  126.   gil, yes thats why the world loves us:) 21:58  |  Tamir Gaza 11/03/07
  127.   Jake, Jews or Israel, whats the different? 21:59  |  Tamir Gaza 11/03/07
  128.   #59 Frau Maureen Ann 22:12  |  Goldi 11/03/07
  129.   Michael J Cohen #19 22:20  |  Goldi 11/03/07
  130.   ~# 37 SA jEW 22:35  |  Dollland 11/03/07
  131.   Churchill thougths 22:51  |  Philippe 11/03/07
  132.   #129 GOLDI LEAP FROGS HISTORY AND MISSES OUT 22:52  |  paul harris 11/03/07
  133.   Chris Linthwaite # 98 23:01  |  Philippe 11/03/07
  134.   All Anti-Semitism is Logically Inconsistent 23:03  |  Efox 11/03/07
  135.   alonitzafoni 23:11  |  leslie duffey 11/03/07
  136.   @78, boris kudos 23:14  |  vladimir 11/03/07
  137.   # 130 Suid Afrikaanse yok 23:35  |  ChanahS 11/03/07
  138.   #7 eklein, pure lie 23:35  |  TOMY 11/03/07
  139.   #14 Cyslist, My wife worked in a clothing co 23:42  |  TOMY 11/03/07
  140.   # Chanah 00:15  |  Dolland 12/03/07
  141.   #12 FYI 00:28  |  FL Retiree 12/03/07
  142.   # Tomy 00:38  |  Dolland 12/03/07
  143.   tomy 00:41  |  wh 12/03/07
  144.   question 00:47  |  tom 12/03/07
  145.   Jugdement day 00:50  |  Kym 12/03/07
  146.   Some truth. 00:52  |  Deborah 12/03/07
  147.   # 137 NOT a lie 01:03  |  Dolland 12/03/07
  148.   Tomy, the true definition of a moron 01:05  |  leslie duffey 12/03/07
  149.   # 142 01:28  |  Dolland 12/03/07
  150.   @117, jeff, where from info? 01:34  |  vladimir 12/03/07
  151.   FL Retiree 01:43  |  leslie duffey 12/03/07
  152.   #140 Dolland, First of all, ecklain said 01:55  |  TOMY 12/03/07
  153.   antisemitism is a history of violence, blood and suffering (1) 02:10  |  Nicolas 12/03/07
  154.   to 22 Gordon (end of the message) 02:25  |  Nicolas 12/03/07
  155.   #121alonitzifoni (Part1)I never really bothered... 02:30  |  Maureen Ann 12/03/07
  156.   DOLLAND.Stalinist" Jews" were Communists first and last.Often 02:35  |  PETER SM 12/03/07
  157.   $ 143 Dolland 02:35  |  ChanahS 12/03/07
  158.   # 139 FL Retiree 02:38  |  ChanahS 12/03/07
  159.   Ephriam - I am usually criticized 02:48  |  Mark Lincoln 12/03/07
  160.   vladimir # 144 02:48  |  ChanahS 12/03/07
  161.   #alonitzifoni (part 2) Another source... 02:48  |  Maureen Ann 12/03/07
  162.   Ephriam - learn something - sometime 02:49  |  Mark Lincoln 12/03/07
  163.   #117 Jeff. Churchill, according to various sources,... 02:57  |  Maureen Ann 12/03/07
  164.   #52Peter SM If Churchill was alive today... 03:03  |  Maureen Ann 12/03/07
  165.   #143 Dolland, WHAT IS YOUR POINT???? 03:29  |  TOMY 12/03/07
  166.   Churchhill was a proud Anglo supremecist! All others ...... 04:00  |  Toronto`s Finest 12/03/07
  167.   #27 05:06  |  Erik 12/03/07
  168.   @153, chanaS thanks 05:10  |  vladimir 12/03/07
  169.   MAUREEN ANN If the Mufti Of Jerusalem Al Husseini was alive today 05:11  |  PETER SM 12/03/07
  170.   PETER SM#149 05:20  |  Erik 12/03/07
  171.   ANTISDEMITIC? 05:37  |  JOJO 12/03/07
  172.   DOLLAND #137 05:50  |  JOJO 12/03/07
  173.   TO TOMY #158 05:53  |  Erik 12/03/07
  174.   Just to let everyone know I have been censured twice on this site 06:00  |  leslie duffey 12/03/07
  175.   HOW BIZZARE 06:04  |  Dick Hertz 12/03/07
  176.   Winston is Soft Peddler 08:14  |  jon 12/03/07
  177.   MAUREEN ANN.Me defend Brit imperialism?Leave you to defend Jihad 08:51  |  PETER SM 12/03/07
  178.   ERIK Not political "coat" but a new religion&mindset-Communism 08:56  |  PETER SM 12/03/07
  179.   To Jew boy 09:10  |  Sara 12/03/07
  180.   PearSM Australian Greens, support... 09:13  |  Maureen Ann 12/03/07
  181.   174#HAPPY FOR YOU!!! 09:16  |  alonitzafoni 12/03/07
  182.   # 170 Erik 09:35  |  ChanahS 12/03/07
  183.   # 173 Erik 09:37  |  ChanahS 12/03/07
  184.   # 174 leslie duffey 09:39  |  chanahS 12/03/07
  185.   # 163 Maureen`s "various sources" 09:42  |  ChanahS 12/03/07
  186.   #142 Dolland die engelse doos 09:53  |  Joe Moer 12/03/07
  187.   For Peter SM & other Proud Jews like myself 10:03  |  Ari ben Yisrael 12/03/07
  188.   Ha`Aretz guidelines & #176 but you censor ME!! 10:08  |  Ari ben Yisrael 12/03/07
  189.   #164 MAUREEN YOU FORGOT GALLOPOLLI 10:58  |  paul harris 12/03/07
  190.   Shame on Haaretz 10:59  |  Davids 12/03/07
  191.   10Q Ha`Aretz for posting #185 Now remove #176 11:05  |  Ari ben Yisrael 12/03/07
  192.   Dan from Haifa 16:25  |  TAZ 12/03/07
  193.   Another reference 17:02  |  DJ 12/03/07
  194.   They did not bomb Eichmanns Railways! 19:05  |  Fritz 12/03/07
  195.   Churchill`s Comments 20:23  |  P. J. Casey 12/03/07
  196.   Reuters? Not surprized! 21:24  |  Yisroela 12/03/07
  197.   ~ 157 Chanah 22:55  |  Dolland 15/03/07
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