Arnold S. Leese - Jewish Ritual Murder

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Introduction - - - - - - - - 00

1. Human Sacrifice A Semitic Tradition - - - - - 1

2. TheRacial Urge - - - - - - - - 2

3. Human Sacrifice And TheJewish Religion - - - - 4

4. TheMotive And Nature Of Jewish Ritual Murder - - - 6

5. "A Relic Of The Days Of Witchcraft And Black Magic" - - - 8

6. "It Couldn't Happen Now" - - - - - - - 9

7. Jewish Ritual Murder In England Before The Expulsion OF 1290 - 12

8. Well Authenticated Cases In Early And Medival Times, 1171 To 1510 - 16

9. Well Authenticated Cases In Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries 21

10. Well Authenticated Cases In NineteenthCentury - - - 22

11. Well Authenticated Cases In The PresentCentury - - - 31

12. The Jewish Defence - - - - - - - 35

13. Evidence Of Converted Jews - - - - - - 38

14. Cases Confirmed By Constituted Authority - - - - 42

15. The Attitude Of The Catholic Church TowardsJewish Ritual Murder 43

16. The Attitude Of The Protestant Church - - - - - 48

17. Other Cases Worthy Of Credence - - - - - 49

18. Two Queer Happenings - - - - - - - 51

19. What Of These? - - - - - - - - 52

20. Irrelevant Meditations - - - - - - - 54

Bibliography Of Works Supporting TheBlood Accusation - - 56

ON15th July, 1936, Mr. Oliver Locker-Lampson, M.P., a childhood friend of theRothschild family, asked in the House of Commons whether the Attorney-Generalproposed to institute legal proceedings against the authors or publishers of The Fascist, the issue of that paper forJuly containing allegations against the Jews of the practice of ritual murder.The Attorney-General replied that the matter was under consideration.

Asan ultimate result of this "consideration," I was sentenced to sixmonths' imprisonment among criminals on 21st September, 1936, the Judge in thecase being a 31st Degree Mason of the Scottish Rite .But it is important to note that the conviction was obtained, not on the ritualmurder issue alone, which was not relied upon by the Prosecution for thepurpose of silencing me, but on the whole contents of the July Fascist, and particularly on words usedby me with reference to the disposal of the Jews.

Underthe law of libel, the truth of mystatements with reference to Ritual Murder could not be used as an argument inmy defence; it was deemed sufficient under the law that the statements had beenwritten, and that they "rendered His Majesty's subjects of Jewish faithliable to suspicion, affront and boycott" and so amounted to a PublicMischief.

Icame to Court very fully prepared, if the truth of my statements waschallenged, to justify the statements I had made in The Fascist, and was even ready to demand that "Rex," theprosecutor, should produce from the Public Records Office certain Close andPatent Rolls of the State wherein Jewish Ritual Murder is recorded as anestablished fact in this country! But I was forbidden by the Judge to use thisline of defence; it did not matter who else had charged the Jews with ritualmurder, or how often, or what historic facts proved it, or how many convictionsthere had been under proper juridical authority; thus, when I asked InspectorKitchener, the only witness who appeared against me, "When you broughtthis case, were you under the impression that Ritual Murder was a thing of thepast?" and he replied "Yes," the Judge intervened with theremark "The truth of a libel is nodefense, I must point out again."

Again,the Attorney-General, who was acting as Prosecuting Counsel, interruptedanother question of mine to the same witness, by the remark: "In mysubmission, it is correctly laid downthat the defendant is in no case allowed to prove the truth of a seditiouslibel as a justification for having published it." The Judge thensaid, "That is the law as Iunderstand it." He made it clear to me that to proceed further in sucha line of defence would be contempt of court, as the "truth" of the"libel" was "irrelevant" to the issue of the trial! Suchmay be the law, but it is not justice!

The last thing the Judo-Masonic Hidden Hand wanted was the truth about Ritual Murder!

SinceI came out of prison on 6th February, 1937, I have, until recently, been too busyto write on the subject of Ritual Murder; but finding that there are, evenamong anti-Jewish workers, people who, never having investigated the matter forthemselves, still imagine that Jewish Ritual Murder not only has not existedand does not exist, but is a fiction invented by crazy anti-Jewish fanatics,and as such, exploited by me, in my campaign against the Jews, it becomesnecessary for me to take steps to defend my own reputation as a man of goodfaith by compiling and publishing this book.

Whatthe court procedure prevented me from doing in my own defence, I do now inthese pages, and I have no anxiety concerning the conclusions at which myreaders will arrive on the matter.

Thesubject of Ritual Murder has always been one that the Jewish Money Power, whichcontrols this country as well as most others, has taken all possible steps tosuppress. The reason is that Ritual Murder was the dynamite which finally blewthe Jew out of England in 1290, out of Spain in 1492, and out of Germany in ourtime. The Jews know it; and I know it too!

Butthere is no British law, and no 11th Commandment, which makes Ritual Murder byJews a forbidden topic in this country. Sir Richard Burton's book about it waspublished shortly after his death near the end of the last century; Strack'sbook, defending the Jews against the accusation, was translated and publishedin England in 1909; whilst the Jew, C. Roth, published his Ritual Murder Libel and the Jew in 1935. In France, as in Germany,there is free speech on the subject.

Ichallenge and defy the Judo-Masonic Power, which rules this country, bypublishing the present work in 1938, not only in my own defence, but in thepublic interest to break the attack on Free Speech that is rapidly developingwherever any criticism of the past or present conduct of Jews is concerned, anattack which relies for its success upon the ridiculous charge that a breach ofthe peace is likely if the truth about them is spoken! I do so in order thatthe Jews shall not escape simply through the power of Money and Masonry frombearing the burden of a charge which, in my opinion, has been proved againstsome of them through the ages. My object is, and always has been, in spite ofwhat my Masonic Judge had to say about it, to alter "a matter of Stateestablished," namely the status of Jews in this country on an equalitywith Britons, a condition which is imperilling our civilization, and toenlighten the public on their true nature as beings possessing instinctsutterly incompatible with our own, so that they may be removed, legally andpeacefully, to a National Home in which they will be required to live together.In this aim, I keep troth with the greatest of English kings, Edward I, whoexpelled the Jews from these shores in 1290.