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There are some very interesting quotations of his from his Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K.
by ihm 5y ago
There are some very interesting quotations of his from his Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton), e.g.,:
> [My position] was always called Anti-Semitism; but it was always much more true to call it Zionism. ... my friends and I had in some general sense a policy in the matter; and it was in substance the desire to give Jews the dignity and status of a separate nation. We desired that in some fashion, and so far as possible, Jews should be represented by Jews, should live in a society of Jews, should be judged by Jews and ruled by Jews. I am an Anti-Semite if that is Anti-Semitism. It would seem more rational to call it Semitism.
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> In the same place he proposed the thought experiment that Jews should be admitted to any role in English public life on condition that they must wear distinctively Middle Eastern garb, explaining that "The point is that we should know where we are; and he would know where he is, which is in a foreign land."
and finally
> In The Judaism of Hitler… Chesterton made much of the fact that the very notion of "a Chosen Race" was of Jewish origin, saying in The Crank: "If there is one outstanding quality in Hitlerism it is its Hebraism" and "the new Nordic Man has all the worst faults of the worst Jews: jealousy, greed, the mania of conspiracy, and above all, the belief in a Chosen Race."