CHAPTER VII

THE ANTI-SEMITE 145

Error of neglecting to study Anti-Semitism on account of its extravagance--it is a most significant thing, however ill-balanced--character of the Anti-Semite--he does not recognize a Jewish problem to be solved but only a Jewish race to be hated--this hatred his whole motive--his self-contradictions--his delusion--his strength--the press still on the whole boycotts the Anti-Semitic movement--but it is growing prodigiously--its great power of _documentation_--its vast accumulation of evidence--effect this will have when it comes out.

The Jews met Anti-Semitism by nothing but ridicule--this weapon insufficient and bound to fail--their enemies have countered it by accumulating _facts_--the latter a much stronger weapon so long as the erroneous Jewish policy of secrecy is maintained.

Danger to the Jews of the Anti-Semitic movement--(1) because of its intensity--(2) because of its formidable accumulation of evidence, which cannot be permanently suppressed--(3) and most important, because it is allied to a now widespread and more moderate, but very hostile, feeling, to which it acts as spear-head.