And you thought Mel Gibson was anti-semitic

by beautifulisfree 9 Replies latest jw friends

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  beautifulisfree

  In 1933 while the rank and file were being persecuted right along side the Jews this is what the society said:

  As for the Declaration and an accompanying letter sent to Adolf Hitler personally, they were nothing short of self-serving statements which attempted to ingratiate Jehovah's Witnesses with the Nazis. Under a sub-section entitled "Jews," the Declaration reads:

  It is falsely charged by our enemies that we have received financial support for our work from the Jews. Nothing is farther from the truth. Up to this moment there never has been the slightest bit of money contributed to our work by Jews. We are the faithful followers of Christ Jesus and believe upon Him as the Savior of the world, whereas the Jews entirely reject Jesus Christ and emphatically deny that he is the Savior of the world sent of God for man's good. This of itself should be sufficient proof to show that we receive no support from Jews and therefore the charges against us are maliciously false and could only proceed from Satan, our great enemy.
  
  The greatest and most oppressive empire on earth is the Anglo-American empire. By this is meant the British Empire, of which the United States of America forms a part. It has been the commercial Jews of the British-American Empire that have built up and carried on Big Business as a means of exploiting and oppressing the peoples of many nations. This fact particularly applies to the cities of London and New York, the stronghold of Big Business. This fact is so manifest in America that there is a proverb concerning the city of New York which says: "the Jews own it, the Irish Catholics rule it, and the Americans pay the bills." We have no fight with any of these persons mentioned but, as witnesses for Jehovah and in obedience to his commandment set forth in the Scriptures, we are compelled to call attention to the truth concerning the same in order that the people may be enlightened concerning God and his purpose.
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  monkeyshine

  Where is that from? I can't use it without proof because they will say it's apostate.
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  Arthur

  Just curious, where did you get this information from? Could you provide a link?
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  beautifulisfree

  Just a second I will go back and try to post the site...
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  beautifulisfree

  
  
  http://www.bible.ca/jw-penton-3rdreich.htm
  

  
  Hope that works...there is a book called "Jehovahs witness's and the Third Reich" with more info
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  JWdaughter

  I have read this quote before and seen the source. The WT not only was being hateful towards Jews, it was sucking up to HITLER while they were at it. EWWW. What a vile vile organization.
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  Arthur

  Is this letter perhaps in M.James Penton's new book as well?
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  Leolaia

  This first scan is from the Golden Age....Judge Rutherford replies to the anti-Semitic statements of a correspondent...notice what he says in response....

  

  These sentiments are almost the same as those expressed in a later article:

  "Not every man who is a descendent of Abraham is a Jew, by any means. Be it known once and for all that those profiteering, conscienceless, selfish men who call themselves Jews, and who control the greater portion of the finances of the world, will never be the rulers in this new earth. God would not risk such selfish men with such an important position" (Golden Age, 23 February 1927, p. 343).

  Here are also scans from Rutherford's book Vindication, vol. 2 (published in 1932):

  

  And from the 1933 Declaration of Facts presented to the Nazi government (as published in the 1934 Yearbook):

  

  

  Here is a scan of the extract of the Society's Hitler letter that cites their agreement with Section 24 of the Nazi Platform (note the references to the "German Race" and "opposing the spirit of Jewish materialism"), and the German edition of the Declaration of Facts which includes a new statement not found in the original English that maligns the Catholics and Jews for joining together to boycott Germany because of the Nazi Party's principles (including the ones against the Jews):

  

  Anti-Jewish statements are found in a 15 December 1933 Watchtower:

  

  The Declaration is also echoed in a 1 January 1934 Watchtower article:

  

  The 1934 booklet Favored People also has some choice words:

  

  From Rutherford's 1937 book Enemies:

  

  And after WWII, this statement was published in Let God Be True (1946 ed.) which blames the Jews themselves for their own sufferings, including presumably the recent Nazi persecution. This statement was removed in the 1952 edition:

  

  It should also be said that in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Society did report many of the atrocities committed against Jews by Germans and condemned them as horrific, Satan-inspired acts. And the bigoted statements presented above did not probably reflect the views of the average JW. Yet these statements still stand many years later as a testimony of an anti-Semitic streak in "God's organization" during the 1930s and 1940s....
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  beautifulisfree

  Thanks for that info Leolaia!!
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  Arthur

  Leolaia,

  Thanks so much for posting all of that material. Just reading that reminds me of the diatribes and rants that you hear come from the leaders of Hamas.