The Charlotte Capitalist

Sunday, March 27, 2011

"The War Against The Jews Goes On"

Former mayor of New York Ed Koch wrote the following in The Huffington Post:

The document which Dr. Medoff sent me last week, concerning FDR and the Holocaust, was frankly shocking. It had to do with the Allies' occupation of North Africa, which they liberated from the Nazis in November 1942.

At the time, President Roosevelt publicly pledged the Allies would do away with the anti-Jewish laws that had been in force in the region. But when FDR met in Casablanca with local government leaders in January 1943, he took a very different line.

The transcript of those discussions, which Dr. Medoff cites, reveals what FDR said about the status of the 330,000 Jews living in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia: "The number of Jews engaged in the practice of the professions (law, medicine, etc) should be definitely limited to the percentage that the Jewish population in North Africa bears to the whole of the North African population...The President stated that his plan would further eliminate the specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore toward the Jews in Germany, namely, that while they represented a small part of the population, over fifty percent of the lawyers, doctors, school teachers, college professors, etc., in Germany, were Jews."

Hard to believe a president would say such a thing? Maybe, but the source is unimpeachable: the transcript appears in Foreign Relations of the United States, a multivolume series of historical documents published by the U.S. government itself. The Casablanca volume was published in 1968, but did not attract much notice at the time. Dr. Medoff has done a public service by bringing it to our attention again.

What is fundamental to the occupations of lawyers, doctors, school teachers, and college professors? It is the quest for knowledge to be applied to improve human lives. And the human faculty that makes knowledge possible is reason.

Hitler was explicitly against reason.

"People set us down as enemies of the intelligence," declared Hitler. "We are. But in a much deeper sense than those conceited dolts of bourgeois scientists ever dreamed of." Leonard Peikoff, "The Ominous Parallels", p. 48.

And there is also this from Hitler:

"A violently active, dominating, intrepid, brutal youth -- that is what I am after...I will have no intellectual training. Knowledge is ruin to my young men." Leonard Peikoff, "The Ominous Parallels", p. 48.

In my post, "The Ultimate Cause of the Triumphs and Tragedies of Jewish Culture", I named the implicit acceptance of reason in Jewish culture as that ultimate cause. This article by former mayor Koch provides further evidence of this premise. In this case, the Jews were victims of Hitler's irrational hatred of reason. They were persecuted not for crimes against other humans, but for their use of reason in their careers. (I am updating that post with Koch's quote.)

A rational individual would instead look to the unproportional achievements of Jewish culture, praise it, and ask how he could meet or exceed those achievements. It appears that President Roosevelt does not fit into the category of rational.

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