“Perhaps you can make Zionists of them.”
“That is absolutely impossible.”
“Did you talk to them about Zionism?”
“It is useless to talk to these people whose first pride is that they are British .”
“But they’re not .”
“You should tell them so. They will tell you they are British of the Jewish persuasion. Ah it has revolted me to hear them talk of this war, the British Empire, and the subject races.”
“I know; disgusting; but very British. But the British Empire has done a good deal for the Jews and I suppose the Jews feel loyal.”
“That is true. But what they do not see is that they are not, and never can be, British; that the British do not accept them as such.”
“That’s true I know; the general attitude; but there are no disabilities. The Jews are free in England.”
“They are free; to the honour of England in all history. But they are nevertheless Jews and not Englishmen. Those Jews who deny, or try to ignore this have ceased to be Jews without becoming Englishmen. The toleration for Jews, moreover, will last only so long as the English remain in ignorance of the immense and increasing power and influence of the Jew in this country. Once that is generally recognised, even England will have its antisemitic movement.”
“ Never. England can assimilate anything. Look at the races that have been built into us in the past.”
“No nation can assimilate the Jew.”