“The legal andYheoretical argument was sup¬ plemented in a practical way by widespread op¬ position to Bible readings and Christmas carols in public schools, an opposition specifically de¬ cided upon by the Central Conference of Amer¬ ican Rabbis.
“In New York the agitation against the carols produced a counter-demonstration in their favor, and the matter seems to have been left to the discretion of the individual teacher.
In Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Paul and maybe elsewhere, there were similar movements and counter-movements, and the question may yet return to plague us.”
There you have, in officially authorized Jewish statement, what the Jews conceive to be a part of their Jewish rights.
A careful examination of the intensive propaganda conducted by the Kehillah and the American Jewish THE JEWISH DEMAND FOR “RIGHTS” IN AMERICA 155 Committee will not only reveal that the whole United States is considered to be the legitimate field for Jewish interference, but also that a very wide di¬ versity of “rights” is insisted upon by them.
In dozens of states and hundreds of towns and cities this program has been plied, but always with too little publicity to appraise the people what is going on. In any number of cases the Jews win their contentions because of the local pressure they are able to produce, usually by their very forehanded way of selecting and obligating public officials. In other instances they have lost, but every loss they credit to a beginning of their “educational” campaign. A loss enables them to “teach a lesson” to somebody by means of a boycott or a changed attitude on the part of the local bank, or in some other way equally effective in creating “the fear of the Jews.”