Famous anti-Semites
Manetho (ca. 250 BC) tells of a group of “lepers and other polluted persons,” 80,000 in number, who
were exiled from Egypt and found residence in Judea… When in power they treated the natives “impiously and savagely,” “setting towns and villages on fire, pillaging the temples and mutilating images of the gods without restraint,” and roasting the animals held sacred by the locals.
Lysimachus of Alexandria (c. 2nd–1st century BC) explicitly calls the Jews “a people accustomed to servitude” and says Moses taught them to be hostile and fit only for subjection.
Apollonius Molon (1st century BCE, Rhodes) describes Jews as “the weakest and most servile of all peoples” and “born for slavery.”
Tacitus (Histories 5.8, c. 109 BC) says the Jews “regard as impious anything that we hold sacred” and were expelled from Egypt because they were “a race hateful to the gods” and naturally servile.
Theophrastus, ca. 300 BC
“The Syrians, of whom the Jews (Ioudaioi) constitute a part, also now sacrifice live victims… They were the first to institute sacrifices both of other living beings and of themselves.” The Greeks, he added, would have “recoiled from the entire business.” The victims—animal and human —were not eaten, but burnt as “whole offerings” to their God, and were “quickly destroyed.”
Antiochus Epiphanes, ca. 175 BC
“To wipe out completely the race of Jews, since they alone of all nations avoided dealings with any
other people and looked upon all men as their enemies.”
139 BC, the Roman praetor Hispalus found it necessary to expel them from the city: “The same
Hispalus banished the Jews from Rome, who were attempting to hand over their own rites to the Romans, and he cast down their private altars from public places.”
59 BC Cicero gave a speech, now titled Pro Flacco. The Jewish religion is “at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.” That the gods stand opposed to this
tribe “is shown by the fact that it has been conquered, let out for taxes, made a slave.”
“The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.”
49 BC Diodorus Siculus
“The refugees had occupied the territory round about Jerusalem, and having organized the nation of Jews had made their hatred of mankind into a tradition.”
20 BC Lysimachus
The exiled ones, led by Moses, were instructed to “show goodwill to no man,” to offer “the worst advice” to others, and to overthrow any temples or sanctuaries they might come upon. Arriving in Judea, “they maltreated the population, and plundered and set fire to the local temples.” They then built a town called Hierosolyma (Jerusalem), and referred to themselves as Hierosolymites.
Emperor Tiberius AD19 expelled the jews from Rome.
AD 49 Emperor Claudius expelled the jews from Rome. “Since the Jews constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, [Claudius] expelled them from Rome.” “The jews are fomenting a general plague which infests the whole world.”
AD 70 Titus
“The destruction of this temple was a prime necessity in order to wipe out more completely the religion of the Jews and the Christians.” These two religions, “although hostile to each other, nevertheless sprang from the same sources; the Christians had grown out of the Jews: if the root were destroyed, the stock would easily perish.”
ca. 120 Tacitus: “The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enmity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.”
ca. 135 Emperor Hadrian’s banning of circumcision: “At this time the Jews began war, because they were forbidden to practice genital mutilation (mutilare genitalia).”
ca 1545 Martin Luther: “…They are the real liars and bloodhounds, who have not only perverted and falsified the entire Scriptures from beginning to end and without ceasing with their interpretations. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them.”
ca. 1600 Pope Clement VIII: “All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, labourers and the very poor. Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live.”
ca. 1600 Giordano Bruno
“…[the Jews are] such a pestilential, leprous, and publicly dangerous race that they deserved to be rooted out and destroyed even before their birth.”
1620 (approx) Sir Francis Bacon
“The children of Satan deceived the world by calling themselves jews.”
1664 Peter Stuyvesant, First governor of New York
“The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here, but learning that they (with their customary usury and deceitful trading with the Christians) were very repugnant to the inferior magistrates, as also to the people having the most affection for you; the Deaconry also fearing that owing to their present indigence they might become a charge in the coming winter, we have, for the benefit of this weak newly developing place and land in general, deemed it useful to require them in a friendly way to depart.”
18th century Voltaire
“You will only find in the Jews an ignorant and barbarous people, who for a long time have joined the most sordid avarice to the most detestable superstition and to the most invincible hatred of all peoples which tolerate and enrich them.” (under Juif, in Dictionnaire Philosophique)
“The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.”
The Jews, he said, “Are, all of them, born with a raging fanaticism in their hearts… I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not someday become deadly to the human race.”
1750 Denis Diderot
“[The Talmud] taught the Jews to steal the goods of Christians, to regard them as savage beasts, to push them over the precipice… to kill them with impunity and to utter every morning the most horrible imprecations against them.”
1790 George Washington
“They work more effectively against us, than the enemy’s armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in…It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pests to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.”
1798 Immanuel Kant
“The Jews are “a nation of deceivers,” and in a later lecture he added that “the Jews…are permitted by the Talmud to practice deceit.”
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte
“Legislating must be put in effect everywhere that the general well being is in danger. The government cannot look with indifference on the way a despicable nation takes possession of all the provinces of France. The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age; they are the carrion birds of humanity… They must be treated with political justice, not with civil justice. They are surely not real citizens. “The Jews have practiced usury since the time of Moses, and oppressed the other peoples. Meanwhile, the Christians were only rarely usurers, falling into disgrace when they did so. We ought to ban the Jews from commerce because they abuse it… The evils of the Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of this people.”
1860 Arthur Schopenhauer
“We see from [Tacitus and Justinus] how much the Jews were at all times and by all nations loathed and despised.” This was due in large part, he says, to the fact that the Jewish people were considered grosse Meister im Lügen—“great master of lies.”
1865 Ulysses S. Grant
“The Jews, as a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department and also department orders, are hereby expelled from the Department within twenty-four hours from the receipt of this order.”
1885 William T. Sherman
“…I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it.”
1880 Franz Liszt
“The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings…He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of…every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“…In the areas where Jews live, ask the original Russian population: what is driving the Jews and what has been driving them for so many centuries? You will receive one answer: ‘pitilessness; all these centuries they were driven only by their pitilessness towards us and only by their thirst for our sweat and our blood’.”
Mark Twain
“In the England of John’s time everybody got into debt to the Jew. He gathered all lucrative enterprises into his hands. He was the King of Commerce. He had to be banished from the realm. For like reasons, Spain had to banish him 400 years ago, and Austria a couple of centuries later. In all ages Christian Europe has been obliged to curtail his activities.”
“I am convinced that the persecution of the Jew is not in any large degree due to religious prejudice. No, the Jew is a money-getter. He made it the end and aim of his life. He was at it in Rome. He has been at it ever since. His success has made the whole human race his enemy…”
George Bernard Shaw
“…This is the real enemy, the invader from the East, the Druze, the ruffian, the oriental parasite; in a word: the Jew.”
1934 Gertrude Stein
“I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace…. By suppressing Jews… he was ending struggle in Germany.”
Theodore Dreiser
“…Liberalism, in the case of the Jew, means internationalism. If you listen to Jews discuss Jews, you will find they are money-minded, very sharp in practice. The Jews lack the fine integrity which at last is endorsed, and to a certain degree followed, by lawyers of other nationalities. The Jew has been in Germany for a thousand years, and he is still a Jew. He has been in America for all of 200 years, and he has not faded into a pure American by any means–-and he will not.”
Adolf Hitler
“Existence compels the Jew to lie, and to lie systematically.”
Joseph Goebbels
“The Jew was also the first to introduce the lie into politics as a weapon… He can therefore be regarded not only as the carrier but even the inventor of the lie among human beings”.
Henry Ford
“If it is ‘anti-Semitism’ to say that communism in the United States is Jewish, so be it; but to the unprejudiced mind it will look very much like Americanism. Communism all over the world, not in Russia only, is Jewish.”
…There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct…a nasty Orientalism which had insidiously affected every channel of expression…The fact that these influences are all traceable to one racial source [Jews] is something to be reckoned with…Our opposition is only in ideas, false ideas, which are sapping the moral stamina of the people.” (My Life and Work)
H. G. Wells
“The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.”
Charles Lindbergh, Jr.
“Most of the Jewish interests in the country are behind war, and they control a huge part of our press and radio and most of our motion pictures. There are the ‘intellectuals’ and the ‘Anglophiles’, and the British agents who are allowed free rein, the international financial interests, and many others.”
Ezra Pound
“Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as ‘a country run by jews.’”
“Wars are made to make debt.”
“At some time the Anglo Saxon may awaken to the fact that the non-Jew nations are shoved into wars in order to destroy themselves, to break up their structure, to destroy their social order, to destroy their populations.”
Winston Churchill
“This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States)… this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France belongs to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct… Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home.”
George Patton
“This happened to be the feast of Yom Kippur, so they were all collected in a large, wooden building, which they called a synagogue. It behooved General Eisenhower to make a speech to them. We entered the synagogue, which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. When we got about halfway up, the head rabbi, who was dressed in a fur hat similar to that worn by Henry VIII of England and in a surplice heavily embroidered and very filthy, came down and met the General … The smell was so terrible that I almost fainted and actually about three hours later lost my lunch as the result of remembering it.”
“I have been just as furious as you at the compilation of lies which the communist and Semitic elements of our government have leveled against me and practically every other commander. In my opinion it is a deliberate attempt to alienate the soldier vote from the commanders, because the communists know that soldiers are not communistic, and they fear what eleven million votes (of veterans) would do…”
“There is a very apparent Semitic influence in the press. They are trying to do two things: first, implement communism, and second, see that all businessmen of German ancestry and non-Jewish antecedents are thrown out of their jobs.”
James Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of Navy, Defense
“Played golf with Joe Kennedy [U.S. Ambassador to Britain]. He says that Chamberlain stated that America and world Jewry forced England into World War II…”
Sir Hartley Shawcross, Britain’s chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, British Attorney General
“Step by step, I have arrived at the conviction that the aims of Communism in Europe are sinister and fatal. At the Nuremberg Trials, I, together with my Russian colleague, condemned Nazi Aggression and Terror. I believe now that Hitler and the German People did not want war. But we declared war on Germany, intent on destroying it, in accordance with our principle of Balance of Power, and we were encouraged by the “Americans” around Roosevelt. We ignored Hitler’s pleading, not to enter into war. Now we are forced to realize that Hitler was right.”
Harry Truman 1947
“The Jews have no sense of proportion, nor do they have any judgment on world affairs. The Jews, I find, are very very selfish. They do care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs, or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as [postwar] Displaced Persons as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power—physical, financial or political–-neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the underdog.”
Thomas Moorer, Admiral, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1971
“I’ve never seen a president–I don’t care who he is–stand up to them [the Israelis]. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time. If the American people understood what a grip those people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens certainly don’t have any idea what goes on.”
George S. Brown, General, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1974
“We have the Israelis coming to us for equipment. We can say we can’t possibly get the Congress to support a program like this. And they say don’t worry about the Congress. We will take care of the Congress. This is somebody from another country, but they can do it. They own, you know, the banks in this country. The newspapers. Just look at where the Jewish money is.”
William J. Fulbright, 1973
“Israel controls the Senate…around 80 percent are completely in support of Israel; anything Israel wants. Jewish influence in the House of Representatives is even greater.”
Marlon Brando, 1996
“Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews and they should have a greater sensitivity.”
Eustace Mullins
“Get the jews out of banking and they cannot control the economic life of the community. Get the Jews out of education and they cannot pervert the minds of the young to their subversive doctrines.”
“National Socialism is simply this—a proposal that the German people rid themselves of the parasitic Jews. The gentile host dared to protest against the continued presence of the parasite, and attempted to throw it off.”
David Duke
“Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.”
“Jews are filled with more hatred and rage for our race, for our heritage, for our blood than perhaps you can imagine.”
Spiro Agnew
“Our policy in the Middle East in my judgment is disastrous, because it’s not even-handed. I see no reason why nearly half the foreign aid this nation has to give goes to Israel, except for the influence of this Zionist lobby. I think the power of the news media is in the hands of a few people…it’s not subject to control of the voters, it’s subject only to the whim of the board of directors.”
Bobby Fischer
“I would like to go back to America – when the Zionist dictatorship has been overthrown.”
Rev. Billy Graham, Evangelist, 1972
“The Jewish stranglehold on the media has got to be broken -– or the country’s going down the drain.
Maria Theresia, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia
“Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest within the state than this race, which impoverished the people by their fraud, usury and money-lending and commits all deeds which an honorable man despises. Subsequently they have to be removed and excluded from here as much as possible.”
Count Helmuth von Moltke, General
“…The Jews form a state, and, obeying their own laws, they evade those of their host country. The Jews always consider an oath regarding a Christian not binding. During the Campaign of 1812 the Jews were spies, they were paid by both sides, they betrayed both sides.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.” (Across the Plains)
Johann Gottfried Herder
“The Jews are a despicable race of cunning dealers, a race that never desires honor, home and country. That they ever could have been valiant warriors and honest peasants does not appear credible to us, for the disposition of a nation does not alter so quickly. A ministry in which the Jew is supreme, a household in which a Jew has the key to the wardrobe and the management of the finances, a department or a commissary where the Jew does the main business, a university where the Jew acts as brokers and money lenders to students, are Pontine marshes which cannot be drained.” (Bekehrung der Juden)
“The Jewish people is and remains in Europe an Asiatic people alien to our part of the world, bound to that old law which it received in a distant climate, and which, according to its confession, it cannot do away with…How many of this alien people can be tolerated without injury to the true citizen?
“For thousands of years, since their emergence on the stage of history, the Jews were a parasitic growth on the stem of other nations, a race of cunning brokers all over the earth. They have caused great evil to many ill-organized states, by retarding the free and natural economic development of their indigenous population.” (Hebraer, in Ideen)
Most of these quotes are taken from a calendar entitled Great Rotten Apples? 36 Hidden anti-Semites Exposed. Thanks for the research.
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