Argentine Radical Newspaper Propagates Anti-semitic Prejudice

(J. T. A. Mail Service)

“In our country where the Semitic population is still small, the problem has not yet assumed a serious character, but the day is assuredly coming when it will. The Jew, by temperament an egoist, a speculator, the enemy of physical work and of humanity because of prejudices which are inherent in his race, is the prototype of the undesirable immigrant in a country like ours which needs agrarian elements and people who are able to assimilate themselves. If the Jew is everywhere persecuted it is certainly not because of his good qualities.”

This, the “Yiddishe Welt” here writes in an editorial on anti-Semitism in the Argentine, does not come from “No-voye Vremia,” or Henry Ford’s “International Jew.” It comes from the Argentine Radical newspaper “Junin” which is published in Junin and is reprinted in the Conservative paper “El Mentor” of the same town.

“We must bear in mind,” the “Yiddishe Welt” proceeds, “that Semite obviously means Jew. There is no need to point out that these words are not merely election demagogy nor in any way exceptional. Nor are they confined to the Radicals. The Socialists here have also shown their anti-Semitism. Jewish parents discover every day that ‘Judio’ is a word very much used in insulting Jewish school children. Only the Jewish school children have started to do what the adults do not-protest.”