“The right of a Jew to remain a Jew–that’s where we should have nailed our Christian colors to the mast” — says Charles Thomas Hallinan, former Director of the American Union against Militarism, in The Nation for January 23rd.
Mr. Hallinan corroborates Horase M. Kallen, who said in an earlier article in the same series, that enti-Semitism is fundamentally a religious problem. He insists that liberal Gentiles have offered the wrong remedy when they urged the Jew to forsake his Jewishness through the process of assimilation. Their tolerance is meaningless unless they accept the Jew as he is. “It is our business to see that religious bigotry is stamped out and that great democratic masses are educated out of errors as old as Christendom. If we make room for Judaism among the religious of the modern world, we shall discover — over-night, as it were–that we have fulfilled our pledge and made room for the Jew . ##. a fine, serious sensitive fellow with a rich and interesting tradition, a strong passion for justice, and a stubborn history of which any Irishman, if I may say so, would be proud!”
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