“We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever.”
These provocative words were written by Maurice Samuel, a 20th-century Jewish writer and Zionist propagandist, and are taken from his now infamous book You Gentiles, which we have republished.
What was Samuel’s argument and what can it tell us today?
Samuel begins with a question: is there a special significance to the “Jew-Gentile” distinction?
He posits that “There are two life-forces in the world I know: Jewish and Gentile, ours and yours.”
“I do not believe that this primal difference between Gentile and Jew is reconcilable. You and we may come to an understanding, never to a reconciliation. There will be irritation between us as long as we are in intimate contact.”
Why?
Central to Samuel’s thesis is the concept of “sport” and “the game.” This summarizes the Gentile nature – life as a gallant adventure, in which rules of conduct are vital. To him, as a Jew, this is incomprehensible. He contrasts this system with the Jewish one, of utmost adherence to “right” over “wrong.”
To Samuel, unlike the sporting Gentiles, the Jews “… are serious in our intentions. We will not accept your rules because we do not understand them. Right and wrong is the only distinction we are fitted by our nature to appreciate.”
So what is “right” and “wrong” to a Jew and where does it come from, or what is it connected with?
Samuel turns to religion to continue his analysis. The Gentiles are people of sport, to whom rules matter; the Jews are people of “God,” who thus know only absolutes, in all things.
While Gentiles can hold loyalties to social groups, locations, nations, etc, Samuel sees this as lack of seriousness. Yet you will notice… he does not thereby disavow those same things for the Jews. Much the opposite, he imbues them with the Jewish absolutist spirit.
There are many implications to Samuel’s criticism of Gentile rules…
“But in the Jew, nation and people and faculties and culture and God are all one…. the feeling in the Jew, even in the free-thinking Jew like myself, is that to be one with his people is to be thereby admitted to the power of enjoying the infinite. I might say of ourselves: “We and God grew up together.””
What an amazing statement!
To truly understand the meaning of Samuel’s distinction between Gentile sport and Jewish absolutism, and his argument for how fundamental and immutable it is, let’s look at an example from his book of how it manifests.
“Murder (except in self-defense) is murder, whether committed in a duel, with all its gentlemanly rules, or in unrestrained rage… We cannot understand a man who, attacking another, insists that the other, in self-defense, shall strike only above the belt.”
Samuel argues that the unique historical enmity that has existed between Gentiles and Jews is due not to transgressions of morality, but to the collision of moralities utterly alien to each other.
As an example, he asks a question: which is more truly subversive, an indecent play which is knowingly breaking the rules, or one which denies that there are rules to be broken at all?
“Such a danger – a danger not merely of malpractice, but of essential denial – is the Jew in your morality.”
Hence, and for many other reasons detailed in the book, Samuel ultimately argues that the enmity is immutable and eternal.
“And the incompatibility of the two systems is not passive.”
“We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build.”
What can be said about a people who willingly say this about themselves?
While this was a long thread, there is much, much more to the book, which nevertheless is short and very readable. We highly encourage everyone who found this information interesting to pick it up on our website so that you can judge Samuel’s words for yourself.
https://antelopehillpublishing.com/product/you-gentiles-by-maurice-samuel/
