Ze'ev Jabotinsky on #Antisemitism in 1940: “The objection to the Jew is not religious but racial, and he must therefore be persecuted even if baptized.”

“Everybody knows that in propaganda the appeal of love is lumbering in comparison w/ the appeal of hatred. Hatred is the piquant sauce that accelerates both the swallowing & the digestion of ideas."

"And the "sauce" can be fully effective only if the object of hatred is close at hand, familiar to all, and easily and safely attacked.”

Two forms of antisemitism 1) antisemitism of man 2) antisemitism of things

The later derives from the instinctive discrimination which every normal person makes between his or her "own kind" & all outsiders. It need not be hatred; it need have nothing to do with actual repulsion

It may be dormant under normal conditions, and may remain dormant for generations, to awaken only when there is keen competition for some essential boon, when the choice is between one's own kin and the outsider, and the instinct of self-defense emerges.

That spirit is the inextinguishable awareness of every Gentile that his Jewish neighbor is not his own kind.

There is no intrinsic harm in this awareness; its no obstacle to neighborly intercourse, to mutual help, even to friendship, so long as the social climate is favorable.

In the climate we find ourselves in now (in America) it appears with voraciousness and can becomes the Jew's death-sentence.