The book makes a very good point when it speaks of the patriotic services which have been rendered to Great Britain by Jews. It is a favourite contention of the anti-Semite that thg Jew is not a patriot but rather""an internstionalist—though the facts are that the German Jew fought as bravely for the Fatherland as the British Jew did for Great Britain. During the War some 50,000 Jews served in the British forces. No less than 80 per cent. joined the fighting units, the remainder being attached to the RA.M.C, R.A.S.C, RA.O.C, and-the labour battalions, Nor can it be argued that ihe Jew waited for conscription for the figures show that mo less than 10,000, including 1,140 officers, were on active service before conscription wes enforced. Mr. Salomon goes on to deal with the outstanding Jewish personalities in the British forces, such as Gen. Monash and Lieut, Col. J. H. Levey—the latter rising from a sergeant-instructors in the Scots Guards to be Lieut.-Colonel of the Gordon Highlanders.
Palestine and Babylon between 200 B.C. and A.D. 500. The first portion deals with the Law, its inierpretation as based on tradition and precedent, not entirely dissimilar from the precedents and judgments which make up the bulk of English law today; while the second portion consists of maxims, proverbs, -legends and folklore. Even the "Kol Nidrei" prayer has been twisted in its meaning against the Gentile, but on examination it hes proved to be just as highly moral a declaration as any which: have ever been invented by Gentile thinkers; while, of cause, the most wretched allegation made against the. Jews is the story of the ritual murder—in connection with which probably the best criticism will be that Shanghai will remember how the table used for washing in connection with Jewish burial services was fancifully reported to Germany an altar for ritual as murder.
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