An unpublished article by Winston Churchill surfaced in which he
partly blamed Britain’s Jews for anti-Semitism. Cambridge University
lecturer Richard Toye recently discovered the 1937 article, titled “How The
Jews Can Combat Persecution,” in a campus archive dedicated to 20th century
statesman. Churchill denounced the “wickedness” of anti-Semites but
added his own criticism of what he called Jewish “aloofness.” “Yet there
are times when one feels instinctively that all this is only another
manifestation of the difference, the separateness of the Jew,” Churchill
wrote in the article, which did not arouse publishers’ interest until
Britain’s Sunday Dispatch newspaper offered to run it in 1940. By then,
Britain was at war with Germany and Churchill was on the verge of becoming
prime minister. His office declined to allow the article’s publication. Toye suggested that Churchill felt the timing was wrong given the flare-up of
Jewish persecution in Europe.
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