G K Chesterton is the author of the famous Father Brown detective stories.
‘Three Father Brown stories are often cited as evidence of anti-Semitic shadows.
‘Yet what are these shadows?
‘A Jewish French millionaire owns a hotel frequented by a club of English oligarchs.
‘A Jewish atheist scientist in France is accused of giving the recipe for a potent Noiseless Powder to Germany.
‘ A copy editor cowed by his commercial publisher replaces the word “Jew” with “Alien.”’
… Father Brown
‘Chesterton had lifelong Jewish friends beginning at St. Paul’s School.
‘He criticized British Fascism for its anti-Semitism.
Chesterton championed the common man, the democrat, the underdog, the French peasant, and the orthodox Jew suffering from Czarist pogroms.
‘He blamed Jews as a class for “forcing” imperialist wars.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 – 1936
G K Chesterton’s “The Man Who Was Thursday,” tells the story of a young poet, Syme, who becomes a policeman in order to pursue an international circle of anarchists who have embarked on a nihilistic war against civilization.
‘He discovers that the entire circle of anarchists is really made up of undercover policemen, including the sinister-seraphic Sunday, who is, somewhat mystically, both the ultimate anarchist and the leading cop…’
Dario Gabai
What to believe?
‘Dario Gabbai, who died in March 2020, became famous for claiming to have been a Sonderkommando who helped gas Jews at Auschwitz. He was exposed by Dean Irebud in 2012 as a fraud.
‘Gabbai, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1922, is listed in the Yad Vashem archives as having been “murdered” at Auschwitz three times.’
In the Marconi scandal of 1912–13, senior ministers in the UK’s Liberal government had secretly profited from advanced knowledge of deals regarding wireless telegraphy. Some of the key players were Jewish.[63]
‘In a work of 1917, titled A Short History of England, Chesterton considers the royal decree of 1290 by which Edward I expelled Jews from England, a policy that remained in place until 1655.
‘Chesterton writes that popular perception of Jewish moneylenders could well have led Edward I’s subjects to regard him as a “tender father of his people” for “breaking the rule by which the rulers had hitherto fostered their bankers’ wealth”.
‘He felt that Jews, “a sensitive and highly civilized people” who “were the capitalists of the age, the men with wealth banked ready for use”, might legitimately complain that “Christian kings and nobles, and even Christian popes and bishops, used for Christian purposes (such as the Crusades and the cathedrals) the money that could only be accumulated in such mountains by a usury they inconsistently denounced as unchristian; and then, when worse times came, gave up the Jew to the fury of the poor”.[65][66]
‘In The New Jerusalem Chesterton dedicated a chapter to his views on the Jewish question: the sense that Jews were a distinct people without a homeland of their own, living as foreigners in countries where they were always a minority.[67]
‘He wrote that in the past, his position: was always called Anti-Semitism; but it was always much more true to call it Zionism. …
‘My friends and I had in some general sense a policy in the matter; and it was in substance the desire to give Jews the dignity and status of a separate nation. We desired that in some fashion, and so far as possible, Jews should be represented by Jews, should live in a society of Jews, should be judged by Jews and ruled by Jews.[67]
‘As Rabbi Stephen Wise wrote in a posthumous tribute to Chesterton in 1937:
‘”When Hitlerism came, he was one of the first to speak out with all the directness and frankness of a great and unabashed spirit. Blessing to his memory!”[69]
Chesterton and his wife.
‘In The Truth about the Tribes Chesterton blasted German race theories, writing: “the essence of Nazi Nationalism is to preserve the purity of a race in a continent where all races are impure.”[70]
‘The historian Simon Mayers points out that Chesterton wrote against the concept of racial superiority and critiqued pseudo-scientific race theories, saying they were akin to a new religion.[62]
In The Truth About the Tribes, Chesterton wrote, “the curse of race religion is that it makes each separate man the sacred image which he worships. His own bones are the sacred relics; his own blood is the blood of St. Januarius.”[62]
‘Mayers records that despite “his hostility towards Nazi antisemitism … [it is unfortunate that he made] claims that ‘Hitlerism’ was a form of Judaism, and that the Jews were partly responsible for race theory.”[62]
‘In The Judaism of Hitler, as well as in A Queer Choice and The Crank, Chesterton made much of the fact that the very notion of “a Chosen Race” was of Jewish origin, saying in The Crank: “If there is one outstanding quality in Hitlerism it is its Hebraism” and “the new Nordic Man has all the worst faults of the worst Jews: jealousy, greed, the mania of conspiracy, and above all, the belief in a Chosen Race.”[62]
‘Mayers also shows that Chesterton portrayed Jews not only as culturally and religiously distinct, but racially as well.
‘In The Feud of the Foreigner (1920) he said that the Jew “is a foreigner far more remote from us than is a Bavarian from a Frenchman; he is divided by the same type of division as that between us and a Chinaman or a Hindoo. He not only is not, but never was, of the same race.”[62]
Reinhard Heydrich, the mastermind of the Holocaust, is believed to have been Jewish. Walter Schellenberg in his Memoirs (p. 207) writes: “Canaris told me after Heydrich’s death that he possessed proof of Heydrich’s Jewish ancestry.”
‘In The Everlasting Man, while writing about human sacrifice, Chesterton suggested that medieval stories about Jews killing children might have resulted from a distortion of genuine cases of devil-worship. Chesterton wrote:
“The Hebrew prophets were perpetually protesting against the Hebrew race relapsing into an idolatry that involved such a war upon children; and it is probable enough that this abominable apostasy from the God of Israel has occasionally appeared in Israel since, in the form of what is called ritual murder; not of course by any representative of the religion of Judaism, but by individual and irresponsible diabolists who did happen to be Jews.” [62][71]
‘Some backing the ideas of eugenics called for the government to sterilise people deemed “mentally defective”.
‘He blasted the proposed wording for such measures as being so vague as to apply to anyone, including “Every tramp who is sulk, every labourer who is shy, every rustic who is eccentric, can quite easily be brought under such conditions as were designed for homicidal maniacs. That is the situation; and that is the point … we are already under the Eugenist State; and nothing remains to us but rebellion.”[76]
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