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“ Folly of Anti-Semitism " “I am not going to attempt to analyse the folly of anti-Semit-ism,” writes A Man in the Street in the Star (London). “That was done perfectly, long ago, by the greatest of all writers: ‘Hath not a Jew eyes ? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? If you tickle us do we not laugh ? If you poison us do we not die ? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?’ If I were an Italian, I should feel a little uneasy to-day about the future of my country. I should remember that every country in modern history that has indulged in such a persecution has inflicted a greater damage on itself than on its victims. One of the oldest truths about the human spirit is that when a man hates his neighbour he is brewing a poison to destroy himself. 'But, like all great truths, it has to be learned afresh out of the bitter „ iicrieiuic of each new generation.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20679, 14 December 1938, Page 6
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