CHAPTER X

THE POSITION OF THE JEWS IN ENGLAND 215

England has gone to both extremes with the Jew. The Jew in the Roman time and in the Middle Ages--his monopoly of Usury in _early_ Middle Ages--The exile of all English Jews under Edward I--their return under Cromwell--followed by a growing alliance between the English State and the Jews--largely due to cosmopolitan commercial interests of Britain--also to common hostility towards the Catholic Church--aided by great wealth and security of this country--in the later nineteenth century the Jews, in spite of their small numbers, colour every English institution, especially the Universities and the House of Commons--the interests of the two races began to diverge before the Great War--none the less a formal alliance maintained through the control of the politicians by Jewish finance--its culmination in the attempt to form an Anglo-Judaic state in Palestine.