Dear Editor:

I read Daniel Greenfield’s article on ADL leaders Greenblatt and Eileen Hershenov (Feb. 18, 2022, “Meet the Obama mentor and Soros lawyer heading up the ADL’s civil rights”). ADL is part of the problem because the white supremacists believe the Jews are progressives, socialist, or communist. ADL fits the perception on all three because of where they get their money. Greed is their middle name.

I started to write to them because I think I have a good idea on how to stem antisemitism. But I need help because I do not know anyone in power. Is there someone who will listen to me?

After reading the following 1899 article written by Mark Twain, I think history is going to repeat itself.

This article was written in 1899 when antisemitism was widespread in the United States. Large companies did not hire Jews, universities either didn’t admit Jews or limited their numbers with strict quotas. “Respectable” people like Ford and Edison expressed their anti-Jewish feelings openly. Mark Twain had an answer for them:

“If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent* of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way.

Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of.

He is as prominent on the planet as any other people and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk.

His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and obtuse learning are also way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

He has made a marvelous fight in this world in all the ages and has done it with his hands tied behind him.

He could be vain of himself and be excused for it. The Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Persians rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, and faded to dream stuff and passed away.

The Greeks and the Romans followed and made a vast noise and they are gone.

Other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time. But it burned out, and they sit in twilight now or have vanished.

The Jew saw them all. Beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew. All other forces pass, but he remains.”

*The Jews now constitute but two percent of the human race.

Charles Samuel Ross

Manchester, California