My Irrelevant Defence
being
Meditations Inside Gaol and Out
on
Jewish Ritual Murder
by
A R N O L D S. L E E S E
Dedicated without permission to
Mr.
OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON, M.P.,
AND
Hon.
Mr. JUSTICE GREAVES-LORD.
LONDON:
The
I.F.L. Printing & Publishing Co.,
30,
Craven Street, W.C.2.
––
1938.
"Soul had they none, nor lineage;
"Nor wit, nor headmen,
"Nor crafts, nor letters,
"Nor e'en a glimpse of God."
British Edda.
"Ye are of your father
the devil and the lusts of your father ye
will do. He was a murderer from
the beginning. . . ." ––
St. John, viii, 44.
"In order to destroy
the prestige of heroism for political crime, we shall send it for trial in the
category of thieving, murder, and every abominable and filthy crime. Public opinion will then confuse in its conception
this category of crime with the disgrace attaching to every other and will
brand it with the same contempt." –– Protocol 19, Protocols
of the Elders of Zion.
"If I am killing a rat
with a stick and have him in a corner, I am not indignant if he tries to bite
me and squeals and gibbers with rage. My
job is, not to get angry, but to keep cool, to attend to my footwork and to
keep on hitting him where it will do the most good." ––
A. S. Leese,
speaking at Reception, 17th Feb., 1937,
on his return from prison.
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Errors in the
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CONTENTS [by original pages]
Chapter.
Page
Introduction - - - - - - - - 00
1.
Human Sacrifice A Semitic Tradition - - - - - 1
2. The
Racial Urge - - - - - - - - 2
3.
Human Sacrifice And The
Jewish Religion - - - - 4
4. The
Motive And
Nature Of Jewish Ritual Murder - - -
6
5.
"A Relic Of The Days Of Witchcraft And
Black Magic" - -
- 8
6.
"It Couldn't Happen Now" - - - - - -
- 9
7.
Jewish Ritual Murder In England Before The Expulsion OF 1290 - 12
8.
Well Authenticated Cases In Early And
Mediæval Times, 1171 To 1510 - 16
9.
Well Authenticated Cases In Seventeenth And
Eighteenth Centuries 21
10. Well Authenticated Cases In Nineteenth
Century - - - 22
11. Well Authenticated Cases In The Present
Century - - - 31
12. The Jewish Defence - - - - - - - 35
13. Evidence Of Converted Jews - - - - - - 38
14. Cases Confirmed By Constituted Authority - - - - 42
15. The Attitude Of The Catholic Church Towards
Jewish Ritual Murder 43
16. The Attitude Of The Protestant Church - - - - - 48
17. Other Cases Worthy Of Credence - - - - - 49
18. Two Queer Happenings - - - - - - - 51
19. What Of These? - - - - - - - - 52
20. Irrelevant Meditations - - - - - - - 54
Bibliography Of Works Supporting The
Blood Accusation - - 56
INTRODUCTION
ON
15th July, 1936, Mr. Oliver Locker-Lampson, M.P., a childhood friend of the
Rothschild family, asked in the House of Commons whether the Attorney-General
proposed to institute legal proceedings against the authors or publishers of The Fascist, the issue of that paper for
July containing allegations against the Jews of the practice of ritual murder.
The Attorney-General replied that the matter was under consideration.
As
an ultimate result of this "consideration," I was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment among criminals on 21st September, 1936, the Judge in the
case being a 31st Degree Mason of the Scottish Rite.
But it is important to note that the conviction was obtained, not on the ritual
murder issue alone, which was not relied upon by the Prosecution for the
purpose of silencing me, but on the whole contents of the July Fascist, and particularly on words used
by me with reference to the disposal of the Jews.
Under
the law of libel, the truth of my
statements with reference to Ritual Murder could not be used as an argument in
my defence; it was deemed sufficient under the law that the statements had been
written, and that they "rendered His Majesty's subjects of Jewish faith
liable to suspicion, affront and boycott" and so amounted to a Public
Mischief.
I
came to Court very fully prepared, if the truth of my statements was
challenged, to justify the statements I had made in The Fascist, and was even ready to demand that "Rex," the
prosecutor, should produce from the Public Records Office certain Close and
Patent Rolls of the State wherein Jewish Ritual Murder is recorded as an
established fact in this country! But I was forbidden by the Judge to use this
line of defence; it did not matter who else had charged the Jews with ritual
murder, or how often, or what historic facts proved it, or how many convictions
there had been under proper juridical authority; thus, when I asked Inspector
Kitchener, the only witness who appeared against me, "When you brought
this case, were you under the impression that Ritual Murder was a thing of the
past?" and he replied "Yes," the Judge intervened with the
remark "The truth of a libel is no
defense, I must point out again."
Again,
the Attorney-General, who was acting as Prosecuting Counsel, interrupted
another question of mine to the same witness, by the remark: "In my
submission, it is correctly laid down
that the defendant is in no case allowed to prove the truth of a seditious
libel as a justification for having published it." The Judge then
said, "That is the law as I
understand it." He made it clear to me that to proceed further in such
a line of defence would be contempt of court, as the "truth" of the
"libel" was "irrelevant" to the issue of the trial! Such
may be the law, but it is not justice!
The last thing the Judæo-Masonic Hidden Hand wanted was the truth about Ritual Murder!
Since
I came out of prison on 6th February, 1937, I have, until recently, been too busy
to write on the subject of Ritual Murder; but finding that there are, even
among anti-Jewish workers, people who, never having investigated the matter for
themselves, still imagine that Jewish Ritual Murder not only has not existed
and does not exist, but is a fiction invented by crazy anti-Jewish fanatics,
and as such, exploited by me, in my campaign against the Jews, it becomes
necessary for me to take steps to defend my own reputation as a man of good
faith by compiling and publishing this book.
What
the court procedure prevented me from doing in my own defence, I do now in
these pages, and I have no anxiety concerning the conclusions at which my
readers will arrive on the matter.
The
subject of Ritual Murder has always been one that the Jewish Money Power, which
controls this country as well as most others, has taken all possible steps to
suppress. The reason is that Ritual Murder was the dynamite which finally blew
the Jew out of England in 1290, out of Spain in 1492, and out of Germany in our
time. The Jews know it; and I know it too!
But
there is no British law, and no 11th Commandment, which makes Ritual Murder by
Jews a forbidden topic in this country. Sir Richard Burton's book about it was
published shortly after his death near the end of the last century; Strack's
book, defending the Jews against the accusation, was translated and published
in England in 1909; whilst the Jew, C. Roth, published his Ritual Murder Libel and the Jew in 1935. In France, as in Germany,
there is free speech on the subject.
I
challenge and defy the Judæo-Masonic Power, which rules this country, by
publishing the present work in 1938, not only in my own defence, but in the
public interest to break the attack on Free Speech that is rapidly developing
wherever any criticism of the past or present conduct of Jews is concerned, an
attack which relies for its success upon the ridiculous charge that a breach of
the peace is likely if the truth about them is spoken! I do so in order that
the Jews shall not escape simply through the power of Money and Masonry from
bearing the burden of a charge which, in my opinion, has been proved against
some of them through the ages. My object is, and always has been, in spite of
what my Masonic Judge had to say about it, to alter "a matter of State
established," namely the status of Jews in this country on an equality
with Britons, a condition which is imperilling our civilization, and to
enlighten the public on their true nature as beings possessing instincts
utterly incompatible with our own, so that they may be removed, legally and
peacefully, to a National Home in which they will be required to live together.
In this aim, I keep troth with the greatest of English kings, Edward I, who
expelled the Jews from these shores in 1290.
The
maintenance of Free Speech demands that Jewish Ritual Murder shall be a subject
for open discussion, like Suttee and Thuggee and the sacrifices of Aztec
Mexico, all of which were ritual murders which, like the Jewish variety, would
be practised to-day if the Aryan had not interfered to prevent them. If the
world thinks that I have not, in this book, proved my case, let it laugh! I can
bear it! But can the Jews? The Jewish
Chronicle (25th September, 1936) complained after my trial was over that
there had been no opportunity for the Jews to refute the charge of Ritual
Murder. Well, they have one now!
ARNOLD
LEESE.
In
compiling this work I have received the most valuable assistance from certain
members of the Imperial Fascist League, who require no thanks for that help. I
should like to acknowledge the guidance I have received in private letters from
Mr. G., of Bristol, and from the work, Le
Crime Rituel chez les Juifs, by Mr. A. Monniot; also from the articles
contained in Mr. A. Arcand's now defunct paper, Le Miroir, of Montreal.
For
a full account of the trial of Arnold Leese in 1936 on six trumped-up charges
of "libel" against the Jews, see The
Fascist for September, 1936, and May, 1937, obtainable from the Imperial
Fascist League, 30, Craven Street, W.C.2, for 3d. post
free.
MY IRRELEVANT DEFENCE:
JEWISH RITUAL MURDER.
CHAPTER I.
HUMAN SACRIFICE A SEMITIC TRADITION.
IT
is incontestable that the ancient "Semites" manifested a peculiar leaning
towards the practice of bloody sacrifices to their gods.
Typical
is the Jewish story of Abraham offering to slay with a knife his first-born,
Isaac, as an offering to Yahweh who had commanded him so to do. More typical
still is the Semitic idea that his god would require such a murder to be done.
In Excavations at Gezer, R. A. S.
Macalister tells us that the bodies of sacrificed young children were found in
all semitic strata; this work describes the remains of
these victims of which pictures are given.
Isaiah
charges the Jews with "enflaming themselves with idols under every green
tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts
of the rocks" (lvii, 5). There are many other Old Testament references to
the practice of sacrificing children to Moloch.
Says
the Rev. J. Kitto in the Cyclopædia of
Biblical Literature, 1895, "their altars
smoked with human blood from the time of Abraham to the fall of the Kingdoms of
Judah and Israel."
G.
A. Dorsey writes in Civilization
(Hamish Hamilton): "Historically their temple at Jerusalem, like a Hindu
or Aztec temple, was a shambles –– one sacrifice after another."
The Jewish Encyclopædia (1904, Vol.
VIII, p. 653) says: "The fact, therefore, now generally accepted by
critical scholars, is that in the last days of the kingdom human sacrifices
were offered to Yhwh as King or Counsellor of the Nation and that the Prophets
disapproved of it ...."
Jesus
Himself speaking to the Pharisees (St. John, viii, 44) charges them with being
hereditary murderers, which term can have no other meaning than ritual
murderers. "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father
ye will do; he was a murderer from the beginning." This is in the Book on
which "witnesses" are sworn when they give evidence against
"anti-semites" who expose the murder of Christian children by Jews!
"Rabbinism
was but an unfolding of Pharisaism, the full and swelling stream of corrupt
doctrines, views and practices, of which the rivulets run up to the days of
Christ and stretch back to those of Ezra until they are lost in the
fountain-head, the Religious Philosophy of a debased Zoroastrianism." (Rev. J. Kitto, Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature.)
The trail of the tradition, then, is complete and leads
to Rabbinism.
CHAPTER II.
THE RACIAL URGE.
SOME
people say that it is the Talmud that made the Jew what he is. I take another
view. I say that it is the Jew that made the Talmud.
I
believe that the urge for human sacrifice comes not through religion but through
race; the idea is, I think, an original one, and came
to me from observation on one race in particular, that known as the Armenoid or
Hither Asiatic race, which I consider has a decided instinct towards sadism.
It
is, I believe, the strong Armenoid or Hither Asiatic strain which exists in the
Jewish Nation upon which we have to lay the responsibility for many unpleasant
Jewish traits and practices, among them Ritual Murder.
The
Jews are a nation without a home, not a race; they are a mixture of races, and
the racial constituent which is most frequently to be found among them is the
Armenoid, or, as it is sometimes called, Hither Asiatic. The
other races which have contributed most to the Jewish types, whether Ashkenazim
or Sephardim, are the Mongoloid, Negroid, Oriental and (White) Alpine.
The
Armenoid race seems to have concentrated in Asia Minor, where it predominates not
only in Jews, but in Armenians, and affects the blood of many
"Turks," "Syrians," "Georgians" and even Kurds.
From this Asiatic centre, a veritable plague of Armenoid blood has spread in
every direction.
Northward,
in the early centuries A.D., it advanced through the Khazar Empire which
flourished about 730 A.D., the ruler becoming a converted Jew and forcing his
people to do the same. Southward, the race spread over the territories of Arabia, Egypt, the Sahara and Southern Algeria. Westward, it has poisoned
the populations of the Balkan States and Greece, Crete, Southern Italy, Sicily and Spain. Eastward, it has
penetrated into Afghanistan and the Punjab.
Through
the Jewish nation, as everyone knows, it has contaminated almost every country
in the world.
The
Armenoid Race has the following physical characters: Height and build, medium;
head short from back to front, with large and fleshy nose turned down towards
the tip. The lips are rather prominent. The hair is black and curly, the skin
is of the swarthy colour, and the eyes are black or brown. It is a marked
feature of this race that the skull goes straight up at the back; in other
words, the Armenoid has "no back to his head." There is also a
tendency for the eyebrows to "meet" over the nose. The chin is
usually poorly developed.
In
temperament, the Armenoid is the reverse of candid. He excels in low cunning,
as his expression often denotes. He is good at business because of his flair
for detailed meanness, and his knowledge of the lowest aspects of human nature.
He is not usually endowed with much courage, but deliberate cruelty is only too
often manifested in his nature. The spirit of revenge, and the nursing of
hatred against anyone who opposes him, is very marked in people of the Armenoid
type.
Every
nation which contains a considerable proportion of people of Armenoid Race soon
establishes for itself a reputation for cruelty, treachery, dishonesty and
delight in power for the sake of power. That is why such nations never flourish
for long in their own territory. They are not allowed to by their neighbours.
I
hold that it is not primarily the Jewish Religion which makes the Jewish Nation
hated all the world over; it is the strong dose of
Armenoid racial blood in their veins. The Afghan is just as cruel, an Armenoid
Muslim; the Abyssinian just as treacherous, an Armenoid Christian; the Armenian
just as mean, another Armenoid Christian.
A
characteristic of the religions which appeal to Armenoid people (Jews,
Mahommedans and Yezedis) is that the initiation ceremonial usually involves
some sort of mutilation, such as circumcision. The religious laws governing the
slaughter of animals for food are framed and practised without consideration
for the unnecessary pain inflicted on the animals by the methods prescribed.
The ancient Assyrians were Armenoids by race, and were
notorious for their wanton cruelty.
Wherever
the Hither Asiatic or Armenoid Race predominates, there is organised cruelty to
prisoners of war; in Afghanistan, the women come out after a battle to search
for the enemy wounded on whom they practise horrible mutilations; in Southern
Algeria, there is a similar practice against French wounded, whilst recent
operations in Abyssinia prove that there is a craving for the same sort of
thing. The Turks of Armenoid race seem to revel in cold-blooded cruelty, whilst
the Bolshevik Jews of Russia, Hungary, Spain and elsewhere have established the
twentieth century as being as barbarous as the twelfth . . . simply because of
the racial instincts possessed by imported Armenoids.
According
to the Jewish Encyclopædia, 1903,
Vol. IV, p. 99, when performing the operation of circumcision on children, the
mohel (operator) "takes some wine in his mouth and applies his lips to the
part involved in the operation, and exerts suction, after which he expels the
mixture of wine and blood into a receptacle provided."
Surely this "religious rite" stamps the
Armenoid as something basically different from ourselves?
All is Race; there is no other truth.
The
Aryan mind grasps with difficulty the idea that any human race can have an
instinct towards sadistic sacrifice, for the Aryan has himself no such
instinct. The Englishman does not realise that the Jew, the Afghan, and the
Armenian are differently constituted from himself, and it is his own
good-nature which has largely been responsible for the Judaisation of mind
which he himself has acquired by allowing Jews to control him for so long.
I
am convinced that it is to the Race rather than to the Talmud or the Kabbala
that we must look before we can understand the urge for Ritual Murder and the
love of torture which crops up in individuals in all countries into which the
Hither Asiatic or Armenoid Race has penetrated.
CHAPTER III.
HUMAN SACRIFICE AND THE JEWISH RELIGION.
I AM
not a student of the Talmud. I have no intention of becoming one. For the same
reason, I shall not become a student of Occultism or of Drainage Systems. I
smell the bad smells and remain aloof.
Nevertheless,
because the advocates of Jewry use a certain line of argument in denying that
there has ever been any such thing as Ritual Murder of Christians by Jews, I am
obliged to quote a few unimpeachable authorities on the subject.
This
"argument" is that the Jewish religious law not only does not sanction
the practice of Ritual Murder, but forbids the consumption of blood altogether.
It is an argument that has been used throughout the ages, and is used now, and
has even been the foundation for the verdict "Not Guilty," in cases
where Jews have been on trial for ritual murder!
It
was the argument used by the Sultan of Turkey when, for money bribes, he issued
a firman (1840) saying that the Ritual Murder Accusations against Jews were
calumnies. (Described in later chapters in more detail).
But
it is known that there have always been two methods of instruction among the
Jews: one Exoteric, which openly
taught the Laws of Moses and the Rabbinical
traditions; the other Esoteric, or
mysteries confided only to certain persons bound to secrecy. This latter, the
Esoteric teaching, is associated with Occultism and what is known as Black
Magic, and the Mystical Cabbala is its source, for certain rites and ceremonies
blood is necessary; and secret rites exist which are known only to the few.
Even
if the written Jewish Laws do not sanction the practice it does not prove that
Jews have not done Murder in accordance with some Occult Ritual. Let a Jew
speak for us here: ––
Bernard
Lazare, a Jew who was stated (Jewish
Encyclopædia, 1904, Vol. VII, p. 650) to be "without
any religious convictions," wrote what he himself described as "an
impartial study of the history and sociology of the Jews," calling his
book L'Antisemitisme; in the 1934
edition of this, Vol. II, p. 215, he writes, after mentioning the accusations
against the Jews of Ritual Murder:
"To this general belief are added the suspicions,
often justified, against the Jews addicted to magical practices. Actually, in
the Middle Ages, the Jew was considered by the people
as the magician par excellence; one finds many formula of
exorcism in the Talmud, and the Talmudic and Cabbalistic demonology is very
complicated. Now one knows the position that blood always occupies in the
operations of sorcery. In Chaldean magic it had a very great importance....
Now, it is very probable, even certain, that Jewish magicians must have
sacrificed children; hence the origin of the legend of ritual
sacrifice."
It
is well known, as will be shown in Chapter VI, that
Occult Rituals exist in which all sorts of abominable practices are carried
out, and that they arise from the Jewish Cabbala.
How ridiculous then is the
"argument" that because the Mosaic Laws and the Talmud do not demand
Ritual Murder, and even forbid the use of blood, Isaac Abrahams cannot be
guilty of any sort of Ritual Murder!
Take
an analogous case. The Eighth Commandment forbids stealing. Have you ever heard
that fact brought up in the defence of a Christian on trial for that crime? Can
you imagine prisoner's counsel arguing that John Smith could not have stolen a
purse from William Brown because the Christian religion forbids such a thing?
More, can you imagine counsel getting away with such an argument? But that is
what the Jews have often succeeded in doing.
So
stupid is this hysterical shriek, "Our Laws do not permit it," that
I, as a scientific investigator, would be willing to concede it as a fact,
without further investigation of the Jewish laws, that Ritual Murder is
contrary to these laws. I would concede it because the point is of no importance
whatever to my case against the Jew. If the point were established what
difference does it make to the verdict of the Trent affair, the Damascus
affair, or to the scores of cases I am going to bring before you in later
chapters?
Another point. Is it likely
that we should find clear sanction for such a crime as Ritual Murder in the
Jewish Laws? Why, if such a thing were to be found, I venture to say that not a
Jew would be left alive, so great would be the popular indignation against the
Jewish nation. We should treat them exactly as Sir W. H. Sleeman treated the
Thugs, the ritual murderers of India, when he stamped them out of existence as
hereditary criminals in the last century.
Dr.
Erich Bischoff, the chief German authority on Jewish law and religion, claims
to have laid his finger on a passage authorising Ritual Murder in the Thikunne Zohar (Edition Berdiwetsch, 88
b), a book of cabbalistic theosophy. The passage runs:
"Furthermore,
there is a commandment pertaining to the killing of strangers, who are like
beasts. This killing has to be done in the lawful method. Those who do not
ascribe themselves to the Jewish religious law must be offered up as sacrifices
to the High God."
Dr. Bischoff may be right. I venture no opinion.
Nevertheless,
the Jewish Laws do tell us something; without any direct sanctioning of Ritual Murder, they show us without any
possibility of doubt, that the Jew is normally at war spiritually with the rest
of mankind, and upon this argument I base my statement that Jewish Laws show
ample foundation for the scientific investigator to take the view that there is
nothing improbable in the reality of Jewish Ritual Murder.
I am not going to take the
same line as other anti-Jewish investigators have done about this matter; I am
not going to quote any Mosaic Laws nor any Talmudic
tenets. I am simply going to quote the great explorer and orientalist, Sir
Richard Burton, a Briton who made it his business to study the Talmud closely
and recorded his conclusions on the relations it revealed as existing between
Jew and Gentile. I quote now from his The
Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam, edited by W. H. Wilkins, and published by
Messrs. Hutchinson in 1898.
Page 73. "The most important and pregnant tenet of modern
Jewish belief is that the Ger, or stranger, in fact all those who do not belong
to their religion, are brute beasts, having no more rights than the fauna of
the field."
I
have long known this to be the Key of International Politics; and it shows that
what would be Murder to an Aryan is only Slaughter to a Talmudic Jew.
Page 81. "The Talmud declares that there are two kinds of
blood pleasing to the Lord, viz: (1) that of the Paschal holocaust; (2) that of
circumcision."
(The Paschal holocaust is
the Easter sacrifice.)
I
suppose every nation has the God it deserves and admires. What sort of a people
is this whose God finds the blood obtained from
mutilations of human genital organs as "pleasing"?
Sir
Richard Burton comments:
Page 115. "Obviously
such cruel and vindictive teaching as that recounted in the previous chapter
must bear fruit in crime and atrocities."
The
Jewish Schulchan Aruch, which codified
the teachings of the Talmud, goes much further in sanctioning shameful
practices against the Gentile; I do not quote it because my object is not to
excite retaliation, but to mark down the Jews as having been responsible,
either collectively or individually, for ritual murders. I want the Gentile to
take steps to remove the Jews from our midst by expulsion to a National Home of
their own, and by legal means.
There
is good reason to think that it is the "Chassidim" sect to which most
recent Jewish Ritual Murders can be traced; the Chassidim is sometimes
considered to be a modern sect which arose in Poland only in the 18th century;
but the Jewish Encyclopædia (1905),
Vol. IX, p. 661, says that the Pharisees were originally identical with the
Chassidim; the Chassidim are fanatical to a degree, and soaked in mysticism.
CHAPTER IV.
THE MOTIVE AND NATURE OF JEWISH RITUAL MURDER.
THE
motive of Ritual Murder of Christians by Jews is almost certainly hate. It is in fact the same motive that Disraeli admitted
to be the cause of revolutionary activities against Gentile governments; to use
his words (from Life of Lord George
Bentinck, 1852): "The people of
God co-operate with atheists; the most skilful accumulators of property ally
themselves with Communists; the peculiar and chosen Race touch the hand of all
the scum and low castes of Europe; and all this because they wish to destroy
that ungrateful Christendom which owes to them even its name, and whose tyranny
they can no longer endure."
Hatred
of Christianity is a tradition among the Jews: just as hate of England is a sort of perverted
religion among an inferior class of Irishmen. It must be remembered that the
Hymn of Hate which was debited to the Germans during the war was actually
written by the Jew Lissauer.
One
of the principal Jewish feast-days is that of Purim. This feast is an orgy of
hate against Haman, the story of whom is found in the Book of Esther of the Old
Testament. The story, which is probably a myth, is that Xerxes, King of Persia,
became enamoured of a Jewess, Esther, and made her Queen in place of his
rightful wife. Haman, the King's minister, complained to him of the conduct of
the Jews who, he said, did not keep the laws, and obtained from the King an
order to slay them. Esther pleaded with the King and prevailed upon him to
summon Haman to a banquet. There, Queen Esther further prevailed upon the King
to spare the Jews and hang Haman on a gallows prepared for the execution of her
guardian. Instead of the Jews being destroyed, their enemies were slaughtered,
including Haman's ten sons, who were hanged.
This
feast is often celebrated by an exhibition of gluttony, intoxication, and
curses on the memory of Haman; and even to this day in London, the Jewish
bakers make cakes in the shape of human ears which are eaten by the Jews on
this day, and are called "Haman's Ears," revealing once again the
inherent hate and barbarism of the Jew in our midst.
The
two principal feast-days associated with Ritual Murder have been (1) Purim, and
(2) Passover, the latter at Easter and the former about one month before it.
When a Ritual Murder occurred at Purim, it was usually that of an adult
Christian who was murdered for his blood; it is said that the blood was dried
and the powder mixed into triangular cakes for eating; it is possible that the
dried blood of a Purim murder might sometimes be used for the following
Passover.
When
a Ritual Murder was done at Passover, it was usually that of a child under
seven years old, as perfect a specimen as possible, who was not only bled
white, but crucified, sometimes circumcised and crowned with thorns, tortured,
beaten, stabbed, and sometimes finished off by wounding in the side in
imitation of the murder of Christ. The blood taken from the child was mixed
either in the powdered state or otherwise into the Passover bread.
Another
festival at which it is thought that Ritual Murder has sometimes been indulged
in is Chanucah, which occurs in December, commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem under the Maccabees in B.C.
165.
Examples
of Purim murders are those of Damascus, Rhodes, Xanten, Polna, Gladbeck and Paderborn.
Although
hate is the principal motive, superstitious traditions are also involved, one
being the association of blood-sacrifices with the idea of atonement; some Jews
have confessed that Jewry cannot be saved or return to Zion unless every year
the blood of a Christian is obtained for the purpose of ritual consumption.
Political
murders, such as the Jewish murder of the Tsar and his family and of other
Russians, have sometimes been accompanied by features suggestive of ritual, but
I do not wish to complicate this book by guessing at the meaning of signs left
symbolically by the murderers.
CHAPTER V.
"A RELIC OF THE DAYS OF
WITCHCRAFT AND BLACK MAGIC."
ON 6th May, 1912, The Times
published a letter, signed by many men of authority, protesting against what
they called the revival of "the hideous charge of Ritual Murder" which
was being brought against a Jew at Kiev. "The Blood
Accusation," they said, "is a relic of the days of Witchcraft and
Black Magic."
Unfortunately
for the signatories of this letter, who numbered among them the Archbishops of
Canterbury, York and Armagh, the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Bishops
galore, Dukes, Earls, Justices, Masters of Colleges and Editors, of that
period, the Blood Accusation has nothing mediæval about it at all; it was more
rife in the 19th century than it was in mediæval times!
Unfortunately
also, Black Magic is in the same category. It is not mediæval either; there
never was a wider cult of Black Magic than there is in the year of Our Lord
1938!
How
extraordinary it is that influential men can be induced to sign such a
statement as I have quoted! And how strange it is that, where Jewish interests
are at stake, these same influential Christian men will see nothing improper in
attempting to prejudice the course of the criminal trial of the Jew Beiliss at Kiev, a course which they would
never pursue in any other cause!
Let
us confound the signatories of The Times letter out of the mouths of Jews
themselves. The Jewish Encyclopædia,
1903, Vol. III, pp. 266-7, gives a list of Accusations of Ritual Murder made
against the Jews through the centuries; 122 cases are listed in chronological
order, and no less than 39 of them were made in the 19th century! There were
far more than double the number of Blood Accusations made in the 19th century
than in any previous century, according to this authoritative Jewish list.
Let
us examine the list of Ritual Murder Accusations made by a converted Jew,
Cesare Algranati, in 1913, and published in Cahiers
Romains; here are listed 101 accusations, of which 28 were made in the 19th
century and only 73 for all the eight preceding centuries! Even the Jew Roth
gives the argument away, for he says (p. 16 of his Ritual Murder Libel and the Jew, 1935), "The nineteenth
century proved little less credulous than those which preceded it."
"Anti-semitic"
authors' lists of Blood Accusations agree in this respect with the lists made
by Jews; Der Stürmer, the paper of
Julius Streicher, in a special Ritual Murder issue published in 1934, shows
that in the 19th century 32 charges of ritual murder were made, which is ten
more than in any other century in European history recorded by it.
The
fact that the charges increase in number as the age becomes more and more
enlightened is particularly significant, because the Jewish Money Power and its
silencing activities are more developed than ever before and might have been
expected to reduce the number of charges.
Sufficient
has now been said to expose the absurdity of any attempt to consign the Blood
Accusation to any mediæval limbo.
It lives
to-day; I may say with the great Sir Richard Burton (The Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam, 1898, p. 129): "At any rate,
sufficient has been advanced in these pages to open the eyes of the student and
the ethnographer; it will stand on record until Elijah."
CHAPTER VI.
"IT COULDN'T HAPPEN NOW."
THIS
argument, "It couldn't happen now," seems quite good enough for a lot
of people when it is applied to the matter of Jewish Ritual Murder. It is,
perhaps, comforting to the democratic mind to think that "Progress"
ensures that such an evil practice, even if it occurred in unenlightened days,
could not have survived to-day.
I wish I could see any comfort in this argument, but I
don't. There are no facts to support it.
That the Aryan peoples have
progressed I do not deny; but I do not think there is any evidence to show any
like progress among some of the other races.
Compare
the following two happenings, noting the dates:
A.D.
117. From the account of Dio Cassius in 78th Book of his history, Chapter 32:
"Then
the Jews in Cyrene (on the modern Tripoli coast of North Africa) choosing as
their leader one Andreas, slew the Romans and Greeks, and devoured their
bodies, drank the blood, clothed themselves in the flayed skins, and sawed many
in half from the head downwards; some they threw to wild beasts and others were
compelled to fight in single combat, so that in all 220,000 were killed. In Egypt
they did many similar things, also in Cyprus,
led by one of them named Artemion; and there another 240,000 were slain."
A.D.
1936. From Daily Mail, 17th September
(describing the horrors of the Red Revolution in Spain):
"Baena (Cordoba
Province): Ninety-one
assassinations, mostly by shooting, hatchet blows, or strangling. Others were
burned alive. Two nuns who had been dragged from the convent of the Mother of
God, had their religious medals with the figure of the Virgin, nailed into the
sockets of their eyes.
"La
Campana (Seville): Reds, led by a woman, Concepcion Velarde Caraballo, who either
killed or was responsible for killing 11 persons in prison. The prisoners were
fired on until they fell, covered with petrol, and set on fire. Some were still
writhing in the flames when the city was entered.
"Lore del
Rio (Seville):
138 assassinated. They were dragged to the cemetery, lined up, and shot in the
legs, being buried alive as they fell in a trench. When the town was entered
hands could still be seen writhing above the ground."
I
cannot see much difference in outlook between the Jewish devils responsible for
both these massacres, even though there are 18 centuries between them!
In view of that, why boggle at the idea of Jewish Ritual
Murder still surviving?
Why
make such a fuss when Jews are charged with the practice of Ritual Murder?
Other Asiatics are known to have practised it until 1850, and, if left to themselves, would doubtless have maintained the custom.
In India, from 10,000 to 50,000
murders were perpetrated every year by a religious body known as the Thugs.
They were mostly people of Mahommedan extraction, but a number of Hindus were
also involved. They used to worship Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction.
Their custom was to club together, generally as travellers, when they would
slowly gain the confidence of some innocent person, and at a given signal,
would strangle him in a prescribed manner, which they regarded as a religious
duty; then they would rob him if he had anything to be robbed of, and bury the
body with such skill as to leave no trace. The Thugs actually received the
protection of some of the native princes and chiefs who were thoroughly
frightened of their power as a secret religious sect. How this reminds us of
the attitude of the influential men in this country who adopt the same view of
Masonry and Jewry!
Then
the British Government decided the thing must stop. After many years of
investigation, Sir W. H. Sleeman stamped out the Thug sect, and no Thuggee
murders are on record since 1850. He found that Thuggee was hereditary among
male members of a family, and he achieved his object by confining in
segregation for life all male members of Thug families.
Now
my point is that Thuggee happened;
and happened in the 19th century until the British put an end to it under
Sleeman. It was a long time before the British administration learned of the
existence of Thuggee, so carefully was it concealed; another analogy with
Jewish Ritual Murder!
"It couldn't happen now." Why not?
And
on 13th September, 1937, a telegram was sent to The Times from Delhi reporting the sacrifice of
a 17-year-old youth to propitiate the rain-god, in Sirmoor State. The youth was led through
the village of Gunpur by a crowd of people headed
by a priest and the village headman, and beheaded on a special altar to the
accompaniment of devotional songs. The head was found by the police at the foot
of the deity in the village temple.
As Aryan rule over India relaxes, Thuggee and other
human sacrifices will re-appear.
"It couldn't happen now." Why not, again?
Here
is an extract from Magick by the
"Master Therion", published in 1929 by the Lecram Press, 26 Rue d'Hautpool, Paris, pp. 94-5:
". . . it was the theory of
the ancient magicians that any living being is a storehouse of energy varying
in quantity according to the size and health of the animal, and in quality
according to its mental and moral character. At the death of the animal this
energy is liberated suddenly. The animal should therefore be killed within the
Circle, or Triangle, as the case may be, so that its energy cannot escape.... For the highest spiritual working one must
accordingly choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force. A
male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory
and suitable.”
A
footnote on p. 95 says "(4) It appears from the
Magical Records of Frater Perdurabo that he
made this particular sacrifice on an average about 150 times every year between
1912 e.v. and 1928 e.v."
This footnote refers to the last sentence in the
paragraph quoted above. The italics are all mine.
"It couldn't happen now." Why not, in the
Devil's name?
Sir
Richard Burton shows that the disappearance of children at Passover was talked
of in Rome and in the other towns of Italy throughout the early part
of the 19th century when efficient policing was unknown, as also throughout the
century at Smyrna and other places in the Levant and in Turkey.
It
couldn't happen now? But the Jewish method of cattle slaughter happens now and
is specially exempted from the objects of the Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933,
which Act orders that all cattle for Gentile food must be stunned with a
mechanically-operated instrument before the throat is cut. The Jewish method is
cutting the throat from ear to ear without any previous stunning. It has been
condemned by a Government Commission held in 1904 as failing in rapidity,
freedom from unnecessary pain and instantaneous loss of sensibility. Yet it
"happens now" and is protected in this our England, by an English
Law, and remains unattacked by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals.
Why couldn't it happen now?
To
this day, we learn from Jewish sources (B'nai
B'rith Messenger, California, 3rd April, 1936) that the Samaritans, an
unorthodox Jewish sect who keep Passover by solar computation, indulge in
bloody sacrifices of animals on that feast-day; an account is given of a visit
to the scene of sacrifice on Mount Gerizim in the 20th century, and these words
are used:
"I
have heard the wild, primitive scream of triumph as the knife is withdrawn from
the neck of the lamb of sacrifice."
Here
is a paragraph from a periodical which shall be unnamed, of 1936, showing that
the urge to the "Mysteries" is not dead:
"The sophisticated Pharisee of the 20th century
unceasingly gives thanks that he has outgrown the fables and rituals of the
Ancients. The worldly-wise man loves the evident and is exasperated by that
which is not evident. Plutocrat and proletarian alike regard themselves as
victimised by that person whose words or actions they do not understand. We
love the obvious because it flatters us, and hate the mysterious because it
damns our intelligence with faint praise. Riddles are irksome. The modern cry
is for facts. Yet, with facts for his fetish, the modernist is more foolish
than his forebears. Decrying superstition, he is most superstitious; rejecting
fancies, he is the fanciful product of a fictitious age. The modern world is
bored with its own importance; life itself has become a
botheration. Suffering from chronic ennui, how can a world ever become
interested in anything but itself? Smothered in their self-complacency, these
all-sufficient ones ask for facts. But what facts are there that fools can
understand? How can the helpless superficial grasp the hopelessly profound, for
are not realities reserved for the wise?"
Alongside this clotted nonsense was
a picture of a ritual murder, with the victim crucified, below it, a portrait
of the author, an obvious Jew.
I
take it that "it would happen now" if this Jew had his way!
CHAPTER VII.
JEWISH RITUAL MURDER IN ENGLAND BEFORE THE
EXPULSION OF 1290.
THE
first known case happened in 1144; after that, cases cropped up from time to time
until the Jews were expelled from the realm by Edward I. The most famous of
these cases was that of Little St. Hugh of Lincoln in 1255. I record these
cases in chronological order; and I do not deny the possibility of some of them
in which details are lacking, being "trumped-up" ones, where death
may have been due to causes other than ritual murder and the Jews blamed for
it; but the case of St. Hugh, particularly, was juridically decided, and the
Close and Patent Rolls of the Realm record definitely cases at London,
Winchester and Oxford. There seems no reason to doubt that many cases of ritual
murder have been unsuspected and even undiscovered.
1144. Norwich. A twelve-year-old boy was crucified and his side
pierced at the Jewish Passover. His body was found in a sack hidden in a tree.
A converted Jew, called Theobald of Cambridge, confessed that the Jews took
blood every year from a Christian child because they thought that only by so
doing could they ever obtain their freedom and return to Palestine, and that it
was their custom to draw lots to decide whence the blood was to be supplied;
Theobald said that last year the lot fell to Narbonne but in this year to
Norwich. The boy was locally beatified and has ever since been known as St.
William. The Sheriff, probably bribed, refused to bring the Jews to trial.
In
J. C. Cox's Norfolk Churches, Vol. II, p. 47, as also in
the Victoria Country History of Norfolk,
1906, Vol. II, is an illustration of an old painted rood-screen depicting the
Ritual Murder of St. William, the screen itself is in Loddon Church, Norfolk, unless the Power of Jewish
Money has had it removed. No one denies this case as a historical event, but
the Jews of course say it was not a Ritual Murder. The Jew, C. Roth, in his The Ritual Murder Libel and the Jew (1935)
says: "Modern enquirers, after careful examination of the facts, have
concluded that the child probably lost consciousness in consequence of a
cataleptic fit, and was buried prematurely by his relatives." How these
modern enquiries arrived at a conclusion like that after all these years, Mr.
Roth does not say; nor is it a compliment to the Church to suggest that its
ministers would allow the boy's death to be celebrated as a martyrdom of a
saint without having satisfied themselves that wounds on the body confirmed the
crucifixion and the piercing of the side. And why the relatives should bury the
boy in a sack and then dig it up and hang it in a tree would puzzle even a Jew
to explain.
John
Foxe's Acts and Monuments of the Church
records this ritual murder, as did the Bollandists and other historians. The
Prior, William Turbe, who afterwards became Bishop of Norwich, was the leading
light in insisting that the crime was one of Jewish Ritual Murder; in the Dictionary of National Biography (edited
by a Jew!) it is made clear that his career, quite apart from this Ritual
Murder case, is that of a man of great strength of character and moral courage.
1160. Gloucester. The body of a child named Harold was found
in the river with the usual wounds of crucifixion. Sometimes
wrongly dated 1168. Recorded in Monumenta
Germaniæ Historica, Vol. VI (Erfurt Annals); Polychronicon, R. Higdon; Chronicles, R. Grafton, p. 46.
1181. Bury St. Edmunds. A child called Robert
was sacrificed at Passover. The child was buried in the church and its presence
there was supposed to cause 'miracles.' Authority: Rohrbacher, from the Chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury.
1192. Winchester. A boy crucified. Mentioned
in Jewish Encyclopædia as being a false
charge. Details lacking.
1232. Winchester. Boy crucified. Details
lacking. Mentioned in Hyamson's History of the Jews in England; also in Annals of Winchester; and conclusively in the Close Roll 16, Henry
III, membrane 8, 26.6.1232.
1235. Norwich. In this case, the Jews stole a child and hid him
with a view to crucifying him. Haydn's Dictionary
of Dates of date 1847, says of this case, "They (the Jews) circumcise
and attempt to crucify a child at Norwich; the offenders are
condemned in a fine of 20,000 marks." Further authority Huillard Breolles Grande Chronique, III, 86. Also Close
Roll, 19 Henry III, m. 23.
1244. London. A child's body found unburied in the cemetery of St. Benedict, with ritual cuts. Buried with great pomp in St. Paul's. Authority: Social England, Vol. I,
p. 407, edited by H. D. Traill.
1255. Lincoln. A boy called Hugh was kidnapped by the Jews and
crucified and tortured in hatred of Jesus Christ. The boy's mother found the
body in a well on the premises of a Jew called Joppin or Copinus. This Jew,
promised by the judge his life if he confessed, did so, and 91 Jews were
arrested; eventually 18 were hanged for the crime. King Henry III himself
personally ordered the juridical investigation of the case five weeks after the
discovery of the body, and refused to allow mercy to be shown to the Jew
Copinus, who was executed.
Hugh
was locally beatified, and his tomb may still be seen in Lincoln Cathedral, but
the Jewish Money Power has evidently been at work, for between 1910 and 1930, a
notice was fixed above the shrine as follows: "The body of Hugh was given
burial in the Cathedral and treated as that of a martyr. When the Minster was
repaved, the skeleton of a small child was found beneath the present tombstone.
There are many incidents in the story which tend to throw doubt upon it, and
the existence of similar stories in England and elsewhere points to their
origin in the fanatical hatred of the Jews of the Middle Ages and the common superstition,
now wholly discredited, that ritual murder was a factor of Jewish Paschal
Rites. Attempts were made as early as the 13th century by the Church to protect
the Jews against the hatred of the populace and against this particular
accusation."
At a
recent visit to Lincoln of the Jewish Historical
Society, in 1934, the Mayor, Mr. G. Deer, said to them: "That he (St.
Hugh) was done to death by Jews for ritual purposes cannot be other than a libel based upon the prejudices and
ignorance of an unenlightened age." The Chancellor on the same occasion
said: "It was quite obviously
one of the very many cases of slander spread about the Jews from time to time. No doubt, the child died or fell down
the well."
These
people, Jews and Gentiles, bring no evidence whatever for their statements; it couldn't have happened, they say. Why
not?
Was
Henry III, weak in character as we know him to have been, ever charged with
being an immoral man? Did the judges not examine the body, which was only four
weeks dead? Is Haydn's Dictionary of
Dates (1847 edition) mediæval and superstitious when it said of this case
"They (the Jews) crucify a child at Lincoln, for which 18 are
hanged"? There are no 'ifs' and 'buts' here! Or does Copinus's confession
not tally with that of Theobald, quoted above in the first Norwich case? Copinus said,
"For the death of this child, nearly all the Jews in England had come together and every
town had sent deputies to assist in the sacrifice."
No
one questions the historical facts in this case; but Jews and Judaised Gentiles
unite in denying the fact of Ritual Murder.
Strack,
in his The Jew and Human Sacrifice,
written in defence of the Jews against the Blood Accusation, omits all mention of this famous case,
which is the subject of the Prioress's Tale (Canterbury Tales) of Chaucer and is referred to in Marlowe's Jew of Malta. Hyamson's History of the Jews in England devotes
the whole of Chapter IX to "Little St. Hugh of Lincoln," showing the
importance of the Ritual Murder issue in the Jewish mind to-day.
The
following Close Rolls of the Realm refer to the case of St. Hugh: Henry III,
39, m. 2, 7.10.1255; 39, m. 2, 14.10.1255; 40, m. 20, 24.11.1255; 40, m.13,
13.3.1256; 42, m. 6; 19.6.1258. And the Patent Rolls, Henry
III, 40, m.20, 26.11.1255; 40, m.19, 9.12.1255; 40, 27.3.1256; and 40, m.5,
20.8.1256.
1257. London. A child sacrificed. Authority: Cluverius, Epitome Historiæ, p. 541. Details lacking.
1276. London. Boy crucified. Authority: The Close Roll of the
Realm, 4, Edward I, membrane 14, 3.3.1276.
1279. Northampton. A child crucified. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, 1847, says of this
case: "They (the Jews) crucify a child at Northampton for which 50 are drawn at
horses' tails and hanged." Further authorities: Reiley, Memorials of London, p. 15; H.
Desportes, Le Mystère du Sang.
1290. Oxford. The Patent Roll 18 Edward I,
mem. 21, 21st June, 1290, contains an order for
the gaol delivery of a Jew, Isaac de Pulet, detained for the murder of a
Christian boy at Oxford.
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