Let us remind ourselves and the world of what Churchill had to say about Jews and the revival of the Jewish state.
At a 1905 Manchester meeting protesting Russian antisemitic pogroms, Churchill strongly condemned this persecution (just as his father had in 1881), and pointedly warned Russia by citing an adage that he attributed to Disraeli: “The Lord deals with the nations as the nations dealt with the Jews.” He quoted it a number of other times throughout his life, reflecting a sincere belief in it.
“I recognise,” he wrote on January 2, 1906, “the supreme attraction to a scattered and persecuted people of a safe and settled home under the flag of tolerance and freedom.” On January 30, 1908, he wrote: “Jerusalem must be the only ultimate goal. When it will be achieved it is vain to prophesy: but that it will some day be achieved is one of the few certainties of the future…I am in full sympathy with the historical traditional aspirations of the Jews….The restoration to them of a centre of true racial and political integrity would be a tremendous event in the history of the world.” And in 1920, he wrote: “If, as may well happen, there should be created in our own lifetime by the banks of the Jordan a Jewish State under the protection of the British Crown which might comprise three or four millions of Jews, an event will have occurred in the history of the world which would from every point of view be beneficial.”
The Arabs on August 22, 1921 urged Churchill to end Jewish immigration to their ancient homeland. Churchill responded: “The Jews have a far more difficult task than you. You have only to enjoy your own possession; but they have to try to create out of the wilderness, out of the barren places, a livelihood for the people they bring in… they were in Palestine many hundreds of years ago. They have always tried to be there. They have done a great deal for the country. They have started many thriving colonies and many of them wish to go and live there. It is to them a sacred place.” From the International Churchill Society:
Churchill truly became a Zionist in 1921, when, being charged as Colonial Secretary to implement the Balfour Declaration, he visited Palestine and was stunned by how the Zionists were turning a barren land green. He spontaneously declared, “Nothing will stand in your way. You have changed desolate places to smiling orchards and initiated progress instead of stagnation.” A few months later he told a skeptical imperial conference: “Wherever the footprints of the Jew in Palestine are found you have prosperity, progress and scientific methods of cultivation, and where there was a wilderness you now find vineyards.” Churchill’s whole worldview was founded on the nineteenth-century ideal of promoting progress and advancing civilization, and now he had witnessed firsthand the Zionists doing just that. While Churchill thought the Jews deserved a homeland in the Holy Land for historical and biblical reasons, it was the civilizational argument that resonated most with him and alone sufficed to justify Zionist title deeds to Palestine. In this new, corrupted postwar world, exemplified by the rise of Bolshevism, Zionism held out hope for a better civilization….
Churchill also became a more ardent Zionist in the 1930s. He feared that any loosening of British control in Palestine or any reneging on Britain’s commitment to the Jews would signal weakness and unreliability, thereby exacerbating Britain’s slipping world position. He considered Palestinian Jews to be strategic assets and saw the Zionists as allies in the mounting battle of ideas, sharing principles of the Victorian world that Britain helped to shape, amid the attack on those principles by rising fascism and communism. In 1939, Churchill led the charge in the Commons against Neville Chamberlain’s White Paper proposing to restrict Jewish immigration to Palestine, calling it “another Munich,” because it effectively nullified the Balfour Declaration….
Churchill understood early what became known as the Holocaust, which effectively began in the summer of 1941, first by mobile killing units and then in 1942 with an extensive network of extermination camps. Churchill circled the number of murdered Jews in the decrypted reports he received from Bletchley Park, and, in a 24 August 1941 radio broadcast, he referred to mass German killings, adding starkly, “We are in the presence of a crime without a name.” He did not specifically mention the Jews, perhaps for fear of tipping off the Germans to the secret intercepts. In November 1941, armed with more evidence, Churchill issued a statement to a Jewish newspaper: “None has suffered more cruelly than the Jew of the unspeakable evils wrought on the bodies and spirits of men by Hitler and his vile regime.” Then, alluding to the postwar Zionist plans, he was quietly pursuing, he stated: “Assuredly in the day of victory the Jew’s sufferings and his part in the struggle will not be forgotten.”
Churchill was especially infuriated with Ernest Bevin, Prime Minister Clement Attlee’s Foreign Secretary — who had loyally served Churchill as minister for labour during the war — for being antisemitic and pursuing a “policy of folly, fatuity and futility the like of which it is not easy to find in modern experience.” Churchill declared, “[The] coming into being of a Jewish State in Palestine is an event in world history to be viewed in the perspective, not of a generation or a century, but in the perspective of a thousand, two thousand or even three thousand years.
Now would be an appropriate time to compare Churchill’s views on the Jewish people and on Israel with what he thought of Muslims and of Islam, with both of which he became acquainted when he fought in the Sudan aganst the Muslim troops of the “mad Mahdi.” He took part in one of the last cavalry charges, at Omdurman in 1898.
Here is what he wrote about Muslims in The River War:
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
Compare those damning paragraphs on Muslims and Islam with his lifelong support for Jews and for the coming into being of a Jewish state, which he insisted would be “a tremendous event in the history of the world.”
Churchill — was he ever wrong?
Billy says
Leftists(eg. Leninists, Maoists, Marxists and Muslims, etc.) are enemies of Israel, America, and the West to gain more taxpayer money, more political power, and more government control. Islamization, like Cultural Marxism, deceives, manipulates, propagandizes, and virtue-signals against the enemies of Allah, the Non-Muslims, by: Islamic Law dba Islam, discrimination, deception, theft, segregation, violence, and terrorism through our Western Institutions with Muslim MONEY and Muslim LIVES as taught in Islam’s Qur’an to make Islamic Law supreme(Qur’an 2:191; 3:54; 4:89, 91; 7:99; 8:30; 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 49:15, etc.).
Actually, Islam is the daily practice of Islamic Law, Sharia, which is created from the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, the Tafsir, the Tarikh, past Islamic Legal Rulings, etc to solidify power and control. Furthermore, Muslim Islamization includes Muslim Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Organizations using Governments, Bureaucracies, Mosques, Muslim Homes, Muslim Schools, Halal Organizations, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, Muslim Non-Profits, etc. to fund, to educate, and to support Islam Law and Muslim Propaganda against all Non-Muslims(Qur’an 1:5; 3:51, 101, 118; 5:3, 48; 8:60, 45:18; 48:29, etc.).
somehistory says
Jesus Christ, a Jew said, ““Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad and easy to travel is the path that leads the way to destruction and eternal loss, and there are many who enter through it.”‘
The popular course these days, fits what Jesus warned regarding the “way” to travel. “Many” are choosing the way of evil. Fewer are choosing to support the things which are morally right. Even fewer than when Mr. Chruchill was alive.
Mike says
Remarkable piece. Thank you.
BubbleBurster says
Excellent article.
Thank you.
ploome says
I Was Against Israel. Then I Went There” |
Claire Regina Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley,
is a British writer, journalist, lecturer and politician who sits in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated life peer. A right-libertarian, she is the director and founder of think tank the Academy of Ideas, formerly known as the Institute of Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuKSSqPv000
carpediadem says
I saw this interview recently, it’s really good and worth watching.
Taffy says
Disraeli and Churchill paraphrase Genesis 12:3:
I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
If you want to read a good book on how Israeli technology advanced to where it js, read “The Startup Nation.” Since its founding in 1948, the whole country was geared to be an incubator for high technology companies. And the stuff coming out of there from water purification and conservation, to medical advances, to military and ordnance innovation, etc., is mind blowing.
somehistory says
“”Police impartiality is under threat from Muslim staff groups who defend Hamas””
“Now, the Policy Exchange think-tank has raised concerns about police neutrality after the official body representing Muslim cops in Britain published a report defending Hamas and attacking Israel.
Last year, the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) complained of ‘unverified stories about acts of violence by Hamas’ during the October 7 terror attacks in a 39-page document.
The same report, written by the association’s then-vice-president Khaldoun Kabbani, also described the Israel Defence Forces as a ‘Zionist terrorist group’ and compared Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to the Holocaust. The Jewish Leadership Council described the claims as ‘grossly offensive’ when they were revealed by The Spectator magazine in June.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/police-impartiality-is-under-threat-from-muslim-staff-groups-who-defend-hamas/ar-AA2cHBfC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6ab1dae56c974f1bb132e97a4bc4fc17&ei=6
somehistory says
“Ireland pushes other countries to sanction Israel as Netanyahu prepares for US trip despite arrest warrant”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ireland-pushes-other-countries-to-sanction-israel-as-netanyahu-prepares-for-us-trip-despite-arrest-warrant/ar-AA2cHl6W?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6ab1dae56c974f1bb132e97a4bc4fc17&ei=22
Maurice Le Berchier says
Excellent! Islamists point their fingers at everyone but themselves.
Brian Ozzy says
I seem to remember reading that Churchill had a big say in paring of 70% of the land voted for Israel by the League of Nations and the UN to pacify the Arabs and give them a 22nd country. Of course now most of the antisemite countries of the world are baying to give the rest of Israel to the Palestine Arabs for a 23rd Arab state.
How is it that islam has taken over 57 countries but all most of the world can focus on is how Israel, legally made a country, somehow stole it of a load of Arabs who only started calling themselves Palestinians in1964 for political reasons?
Nick says
Why don’t more commentators and journalists quote Churchill’s views on Islam more often? He was an amazingly astute politician. He dwelled in a society that took truth for granted. He would turn in his grave to see the terrible state the UK is currently in.
John David says
Thank you Mr Hugh Fitzgerald for this article. I love that quote attributed to Disraeli: “The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.” I also like the quote from Churchill’s book “The River War”
— The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
What a wonderful and righteous man Winston Churchill was. If only people in modern day Britain could resurrect that type of leader again. Perhaps they will; we shouldn’t lose hope in the British and the Australians and New Zealanders.
In this quote from The River War Churchill implicitly advises that we should endeavour to minimise the power of the Islamic faith in the world, which is exactly the opposite of what Western powers have been doing since the beginning of the 21st century.
Sincerely yours,
John David
John David Anderson says
Thank you Mr Hugh Fitzgerald for this article. I love that quote attributed to Disraeli: “The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.” I also like the quote from Churchill’s book “The River War”
— The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
What a wonderful and righteous man Winston Churchill was. If only people in modern day Britain could resurrect that type of leader again. Perhaps they will; we shouldn’t lose hope in the British and the Australians and New Zealanders.
In this quote from The River War Churchill implicitly advises that we should endeavour to minimise the power of the Islamic faith in the world, which is exactly the opposite of what Western powers have been doing since the beginning of the 21st century.
Sincerely yours,
John David