Posted on 02/13/2019 6:49:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Dearborn, Michigan's local historical commission has adopted a resolution calling on Mayor Jack O'Reilly to reverse his recent firing of the editor of the commission's quarterly magazine, the Dearborn Historian, over the January edition's cover story. O'Reilly also killed the issue's release, but the article was published anyway in the online news site, Deadline Detroit. The censored story, "Henry Ford and The International Jew," was meant to mark the centennial of Henry Ford acquiring a local newspaper, the Dearborn Independent.
Ford used the paper to launch a 91-week series of anti-Semitic articles, repackaged into book form as The International Jew. As told by the quarterly's fired editor, veteran journalist Bill McGraw, The International Jew was "distributed across Europe and North America during the rise of fascism in the 1920s and '30s [and] influenced some of the future rulers of Nazi Germany." In 1931, Adolf Hitler, in Munich before he became chancellor, told a Detroit News reporter, "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration." The International Jew also helped popularize the Russian forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, similarly purporting "to show Jews are bent on world domination." It even "helped push Hitler further into 'conspiratorial anti-Semitism'" and influenced his writing in Mein Kampf.
Pretty heavy fare for a local historical journal with 230 subscribers. But why censor it? The mayor's office says he wanted "to protect the city's reputation for diversity and inclusion" and "distance the city from possible criticism for being seen as a source of despicable viewpoints." But how can Ford's bigotry in the 1920s draw criticism to Dearborn as a possible source of despicable viewpoints now?
There's a clue in McGraw's article, but it's not obvious. McGraw connects Ford's story to today by warning how Ford's "legacy of hate is stronger than ever — it flourishes on the websites and forums of white nationalists, racists and others who hate Jews."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Closer to home, newly seated U.S. representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are both unabashed anti-Semites. In 2012, Omar tweeted that "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. #Gaza #Palestine #Israel." Scott Johnson at RealClearPolitics called Omar "an Islamist hater of Israel ... [who] prayed for 'Allah to awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel,' calling Israel an 'apartheid regime.'" Rashida Tlaib "wants to cut aid to the Jewish state because supporting it 'doesn't fit the values of our country.'" Tlaib was photographed with Palestinian activist Abbas Hamideh, "who said Israel did not have the right to exist, and has called for Israeli 'Zionist terrorist' Jews to return to Poland, where roughly three million Jews were killed during the Holocaust." She "headlined a BDS rally with fellow speaker, Dawud Walid, a flagrant anti-Semite who has blamed the 'wrath of Allah' on 'the Jews.'" Walid is an outspoken Islamist and the longtime head of Michigan's chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim Brotherhood creation. Palestinian activist and Women's March heroine Linda Sarsour said, "American Muslims shouldn't 'humanize' Israelis." Sarsour's also pals with Tlaib, whom she describes as her "mentor and role model." After CNN fired Marc Lamont Hill for his speech at a U.N. event endorsing "violent 'resistance' against Jews" and urging worldwide action toward "a free Palestine from the river to the sea," Tlaib demanded that CNN rehire him. Tlaib recently tweeted that senators supporting an anti-BDS bill had divided loyalties, "one of the oldest and most blatantly anti-Jewish canards." Her tweet, "[t]hey forgot what country they represent," was particularly grotesque from a woman who celebrated her election by wrapping herself in a Palestinian flag. Both Omar and Tlaib bald-facedly lied to potential voters about their support for the BDS campaign and a one-state solution that eliminates Israel, then loudly resumed their true positions after the election. The world map in Tlaib's congressional office has a Post-It note marked "Palestine" over the State of Israel.
Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison, whose former congressional seat is now occupied by Ilhan Omar, said "that Jews were running American foreign policy." Ellison's always gotten a pass from media about his close association with "America's leading anti-Semite," the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan. Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus have been "schmoozing" with Farrakhan for years. David Harsanyi wonders that the same media who "see white supremacy behind every border security measure" maintain "a track record of tenaciously ignoring the anti-Semitism creeping into Democratic Party politics." Could this be why reporter Bill McGraw is so bashful about naming the "others who hate Jews"?
Mayor O'Reilly manages to preside over a city where the "Hamas/CAIR/Muslim Brotherhood nexus" is not hard to find, where people pay extra for smuggled cigarettes to cover Hezbollah's "resistance tax," and where a thousand young men will turn out to hail Hassan Nasrallah as their leader. He may well want to censor any conversation where "Dearborn" and "anti-Semitism" are mentioned in the same sentence. He needn't have bothered this time: McGraw wasn't telling the real story anyway.
...but did Henry Ford ever wear blackface?
I thought Ford’s factory assembly lines revolutionized industry.
Is there context to link “Ford was my inspiration” to why Hitler hated Jews? Or did he seize upon assembly line thinking and apply it to death camps?
Ford wrote a book basically saying how Jews control the banks and media. It’s referenced in the article.
Henry Ford made the mistake of putting his feelings out there in easily accessible print. His opinions about Jews were shared with almost all of America’s WASP Establishment, not to mention the newer upwardly mobile Catholics. America was still by far the best place on earth for Jews at that time.
Ford was a strong supporter of race-based birth control, like Margaret Sanger, which was then picked up and put on steroids by the Nazis.
Was Henri Ford a closet muslim or a nazi????
Doubt it..
Dearbornistan is enemy occupied territory.
I don’t doubt it but wasn’t Hitler already an antisemite and a nasty piece of work in the 1920s?
He may have found validation for his hate in Ford’s publication but was it his inspiration?
Makes you wonder about the agenda the Ford Foundation and other secular globalist corporatists are sponsoring these days...
Makes you wonder about the agenda the Ford Foundation and other secular globalist corporatists are sponsoring these days...
I would say your interpretation is correct. Hitler had some crackpot pet “scientist” as his official scribbler on the subject, but we know that that guy found ample material in the writings of Margaret Sanger, Henry Ford, and Oliver Wendell Homes.
Planned Parenthood condemned the VA governor for the KKK costume on his yearbook page but still has yet to condemn Margaret Sanger’s racist past.
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