THE JEWISH CATECHISM
The text below was first
published in Tel Aviv in 1958, but was not published in the official press in
Russia. It consists of advice to Jews on how to behave in the former USSR
in order to achieve Zionist goals. The word Russian has been changed to
the word American for this article.
JEWS! Love one another, help one another! Help each other
even if you hate each other!
Our strength lies in unity. Unity
is the token of our success, and it is our salvation and our prosperity. Many
nations perished after becoming dispersed because they did not have a clear-cut
program of action or a feeling of comradeship. But we, thanks to our feeling of
collectivism, have gone on for centuries and have survived while living among
other nations. We have remained intact, have multiplied and have grown
stronger.
Unity is an objective, but it
is also a means of achieving an objective. This is the point. Unity is what must
be striven for. Everything else is derivative, and will come automatically.
Help one another, do not be
afraid of being regarded as nationalists, and do not be afraid of
protectionism. This nationalism of ours is our chief instrument. Our
nationalism is international, and that is why it is eternal. The way towards
our nationalism is open to Jews of all nationalities, all denominations, and
all parties. The only true internationalism is that which is tied to the Jews
by links of blood. All other forms of internationalism are merely provocation
and deceit. Operate on a broader scale in drawing towards yourselves people who
are close to you by reason of their birth. Only they can provide you with the
living environment desired.
Form your national groups of
specialists. Groups of specialists are the Holy of Holies. Such groups decide
everything. Today’s specialist groups are our tomorrow. Every laboratory, every
university department and every institute must become the place where our
national groups of specialists are created.
Prepare young Jewish people
for the task of continuing the tradition of former generations. Let every
generation of Gentiles conflict with our system of defense in depth. Every time
the older generation disappears from the scene, it must be replaced by an even
more powerful cohort of young Jews who have been given the right training at
the proper time and have become strong as a result. To achieve this, our young
people must be promoted to positions of leadership as early as possible on the
grounds that they are mature and brilliant. Even if this is not yet true, they
will mature on the job.
HE WHO IS IN POWER IS IN THE
RIGHT. We must pass on to our children more than we received from our
fathers, and our children, after preserving what they have received and adding
to it, will, in turn, pass it on to their offspring. Continuity from generation
to generation is our strength, our stability and our immortality.
HE WHO IS IN
POWER IS IN THE RIGHT.
The world is cruel, and there
is no place in it for philanthropy. Every nation is the creator of its own
happiness. It is not our business to worry about American national groups of
specialists. If they do not think about themselves, why should we think about
them? Do not follow the example of the Americans and the Arabs, who live
contemplatively, hoping that an off-chance may arise. Do not expect any favors
from nature – our task is to take the favors ourselves.
Throw out the Gentiles… all
highly paid, influential and profitable jobs are our national income.
Create your own groups and use
these groups to throw out the Gentiles. Remember: all highly paid, influential
and profitable jobs are our national income. Remember that every Gentile who
has reached our level can occupy a post which might have belonged to each one
of us. We create our groups so that goys cannot prevent us from living the way
we want to. Let the goys try to create their own groups. They will scarcely
succeed in this, and they will fall out with one another before they manage to
achieve anything. We shall help them in that.
THE AMERICANS ARE INCAPABLE OF
THINKING DEEPLY, ANALYSING OR ARRIVING AT DEEP GENERALIZATIONS. THEY ARE LIKE
PIGS WHO LIVE WITH THEIR SNOUTS BURIED IN THE GROUND, NOT SUSPECTING THAT THERE
IS A SKY. They interpret all phenomena in too superficial and specific a way.
They do not see facts as a sequence and do not understand how facts
interrelate. They are unable to think, generalize or form abstractions. To
them, every event is only an event, however frequently it may occur.
Our ideology is basically
opposed to that of the goys. They say: “It is better to have less but of
better quality,” We say: “It is better to have more and of better
quality,” They say: “It is better to be poor and healthy, than rich and
sick.” We say: “It is better to be healthy and rich than poor and sick.”
They say: “To give is as pleasant as to receive.” We say: “To give may be
pleasant, but to receive is also more profitable.” They say: “Act in
accordance with the law. That is your duty.” We say: “Act contrary to the
law, and I shall return you a favor.” They say: “Win the victory or die.”
Our slogan is: “Win the victory in order to live, but live in order to win the
victory.” (What is the point of victory if there is no life? One must wait
until the bitterness of defeat is over – everything will come to him who can
wait.)
All knowledge and skills that
they possess, we possess too. They do not need to know or feel things which we
know and feel. Everything they possess constitutes the limit of what they are
capable of. Everything we possess is our means for achieving even
more. EVERYTHING WHICH THEY POSSESS TODAY IS OURS AND IS FOR THEIR
TEMPORARY USE. IT IS OUR TASK TO TAKE FROM THEM THE THINGS WHICH GOD HAS
BEQUEATHED TO US.
The Americans are obstinate,
but they are not persistent enough when it comes to attaining an objective.
They are lazy, and that is whey they are always in a hurry. They try to solve
all problems at a stroke. They sacrifice small things for the sake of the major,
decisive task of winning a victory. But that victory either does not come at
all or else, having won the victory, they are no better off than before. WE
PROFESS THE TACTICS OF SMALL VICTORIES, ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT OBJECT TO LARGE
VICTORIES. A SMALL VICTORY IS ALSO A VICTORY!
The Americans neither know how
to lead, nor how to submit. They are saboteurs by reason of their genetic
makeup. The Americans are envious, and they hate their colleagues if the latter
rise above the grey masses of the people. Give them the chance to tear to
pieces these colleagues who have been promoted, and they will tear him to
pieces with pleasure. Jews! Always act as arbitrators, adopt the posture of
being peacemakers, defend the “unhappy people” against whom the crowd is up in
arms, but only inasmuch as to gain a reputation as a generous, objective
person. With a little patience, you will take over the position of the person
whom a short while ago you tore to pieces. WHEN TWO AMERICANS FIGHT ONE
ANOTHER, A JEW IS THE WINNER.
Set the Americans against one
another, provoke in them envy towards one another. Always do this imperceptibly
and subtly, operating under a cover of benevolence. Let them fight among
themselves. You will always be the arbitrator.
AMERICANS DO NOT KNOW HOW TO LIVE,
OR HOW TO SET GOALS. WE CREATE THE DAILY TASKS FOR THEM, AND THEY TRY TO CARRY
OUT THOSE TASKS.
The Americans do not know how
to ask for something, regarding it as humiliating to do so, even though they
are humiliated and poor as it stands. We say: “Every humiliation is a blessing
if it produces an advantage.” One can humiliate oneself in order to achieve a
goal, and it is possible to humiliate oneself with dignity. NOTHING IS IMMORAL
IF IT ASSISTS OUR PEOPLE TO BECOME WELL-ESTABLISHED AND PROSPEROUS. THE END
ILLUMINATES THE MEANS.
The Americans are stupid and
coarse. They refer to their stupidity and coarseness as honesty, decency and
well-principled behavior. Their inability to adapt and change their behavior so
as to suit the situation and their lack of any mental flexibility, are
described by them as “being true to themselves,” as “adherence to principle”.
Goys are so stupid and coarse that they do not even know how to lie. Again,
they call their primitiveness and stupidity honesty and decency, although they
are by nature mendacious and dishonest. In ancient times the goys referred to
their characteristically primitive behavior as barbarity, in the Middle Ages
they termed it chivalry, and later they called it gentlemanly conduct. They
committed suicide out of empty principles. LET THEM CONTINUE TO DO SO!
They are restricted in their
abilities and for this reason they set limits to everything. But we say: “Man’s
possibilities are unlimited, because man behaves in accordance with
circumstances!”
Always remember the limits
which goys set for themselves. Their thinking has stagnated within these
limits, and they are unable to go beyond them. Therein lies their misfortune
and our advantage. Speak and act in a way which their morality and their
concepts do not permit. Do things which seem to them to be impossible and
incredible. They will not believe that you are capable of words and actions of
which they are not capable.
Speak and act in a way which
is confident, energetic, aggressive, discouraging and stunning. Produce more
noise and oral trumpery, and say more things which are incomprehensible and
pseudo-scientific. Create theories, hypotheses, tendencies, schools, practicable
and impracticable methods. The more extravagant, the better! Do not bother
about these theories being useless because they will have been forgotten about
by tomorrow. A new day, and with it, new ideas will come. It is here that our
self-assertion, our superiority, and the power of our spirit, all find
expression. Let the goys bear the brunt of the ideas we float. Let them rack
their brains looking for any grains of rationality in our ideas, and let them
seek and find in our ideas things which are not there. Tomorrow we shall give
their primitive brains some new food to chew on.
It does not matter what you
say. What matters is how you say it. Your self-confidence will be perceived as
conviction, your ambition will be thought to be loftiness of mind, and your
manner of preaching and putting people right will be regarded as superiority.
TWIST THE BRAINS OF THE GOYS AND WORK THE GOYS UP INTO A NERVOUS STATE!
Suppress the will of those, who object what you are saying. Place the upstarts
and bawlers in a compromising position, and stir up the pride of the crowd
against any sceptics. In your discussions and debates, use rhetorical methods
which border on the indecent. If anyone doubts what you are saying and objects
to it, ask him his surname, where he works and what his job is. This will
usually shock and intimidate them, and they will retreat. Demand replies, and
when you have received them, say over and over again, without analyzing the
essence of the replies: “It’s not like that, it’s not like that at all!”
If some know-it-all tries to
expose you, the others will not listen to him and will condemn him, because by
exposing you he is proving them guilty of stupidity, and the crowd does not
forgive this.
If an American tries to show
his worth and to attract attention to himself, you must create more sound
effects at that moment, shuffle your feet, stand up and walk about, make
creaking noises with the chairs, laugh, chatter, hum something under your
breath, cough and blow your nose, and interrupt him by making speeches,
conversing, telling jokes, and the like. Cause the American a mass of petty,
annoying inconveniences of which they are not immediately aware. Place your
things on top of their belongings, tread on their feet, breathe in their faces
and talk in a provocatively loud way. Let them constantly feel your elbow in
their side. The Americans cannot endure this for long. To avoid any scandals,
they will go away, leaving the place free for you to occupy…They think it is
particularly smart to slam the door and walk away. Give them the opportunity to
do so! POLITE INSOLENCE IS OUR WATCHWORD!
ACCUSE OF
ANTISEMITISM THOSE WHO TRY TO EXPOSE YOU.
Accuse of antisemitism those
who try to expose you. Pin the label of “antisemite” on them, and you will see
with what pleasure the other goys will take up this assertion. On the whole,
all Americans are antisemites, but as soon as you pin this label on one
American, he becomes defenseless, because all the others will throw him to us as
a sacrifice and will destroy him with their own hands. And we shall attach the
stigma to the next victim.
Play on the soft-heartedness
of the Americans. Make yourselves out to be poor and unfortunate ones, arouse
compassion and sympathy for yourselves, spread the rumors about the eternally
suffering nation, about persecution in the past and discrimination today. The
tactic of the “poor Jew” has been proving its worth for thousands of years!
Even if the Americans have less than us, they will nonetheless help us to have
more. The Americans like being benefactors and guardians and every beggar
strives to be a benefactor because that raises his status. The generosity of
the Americans increases in the same measure as their ability to put it into
effect decreases. Take from them what they can give: a mangy sheep will at
least yield a tuft of wool!
Distort all phenomena in the
light of our interests. Every phenomenon must, unquestionably, be considered
from the point of view of the harm or benefit it produces for the Jews!
Inform one another about
everything which may harm or benefit us. Information is the Holy of Holies!
Money, groups of specialists, and information: these are the three supports
upon which our well-being is founded!
It is every Jew’s sacred duty
and obligation to inform another Jew of what the Goyim intend to do. You helped
me today, I shall help you tomorrow – therein lies our strength.
OUR GOD
BEQUEATHED TO US THE TASK OF OWNING THE WORLD, AND WE OWN IT.
Our God bequeathed to us the
task of owning the world, and we own it. Our task is to keep the world in our
hands. Keep in your hands the means of propaganda and information: the press,
radio, television, and cinema. We must penetrate further into the apparatus of
Federal and State authority. Regarding any question, form a public opinion
which takes into account our national interests.
Any trifle can be turned into
a problem and any problem into a trifle. Not one public process must be allowed
to drift of its own accord. If it does not benefit us, slow it down, or direct
it against our enemies, the goyim. We must be at the head of any undertaking so
that we can guide it in the required direction.
Be the leaders in everything,
strive always to be the first! Cultivate within yourself the characteristics of
leadership. Do this every hour, every minute, even in the trifles of everyday
life. Do not give way to anything. Try not to give way even in respect of
trifles, whether they be your seat in a bus or train or your place in a queue
in a shop.
In any working group, take the
power into your own hands and direct the group in our interests. We must carry
out the administrative and creative part of the production process. Let the
goys provide the preparatory material and technical basis for our creative
work. Let them look after the cleanliness of the workplaces and guard the
fruits of our labors. Let their position be no higher than that of a porter or
cleaner.
It is permissible, by way of
an exception, to allow goys of non-European origin to do creative work. Do not
allow European Americans to do this! We shall always deserve blame if we allow
WASP’s to do such work. And do not be afraid of us gaining a reputation as
nationalists: an illusion of internationalism will be assured with an admixture
of Jewish blood or, if the worst comes to the worst, by the presence of
representatives of ethnic minorities. If you have a vacancy, hire only a Jew.
If you cannot do this, cancel
the position. If you can do neither, hire an Asian. If none is available, hire
an Indian, a Mexican or, if the worst comes to the worst, an African. All these
have scores to settle with the European Americans. After they have been worked
on for a while, they will become your allies. They are all only antisemites in
their own native lands. In America, it is more beneficial to them to be
internationalists. By these means they will find the necessary area within
which they can exist. Make use of these means they adopt.
Do not openly destroy the
monuments to the history of America, but also do not restore those monuments.
Years will pass, and the monuments will collapse of their own accord. And
hooligans and “lovers of the past” will take them away little by little, brick
by brick. Pretend not to notice this because you are occupied with major tasks
of the national economy. A nation without a history is like a child without
parents. Such a nation can be molded into whatever is required. One can impose
upon such a nation one’s own philosophy and one’s own way of thinking.
By this method, whole nations
can be inevitably deprived of their particular individuality. First, they will
lose their history and traditions, and then we shall form them in our own
image.
DO NOT
PERMIT THEM TO DISCUSS ANY PROBLEMS WITHOUT US BEING PRESENT… BE OMNIPRESENT!
Keep every step taken by
influential and forward-looking Americans under a never-slackening control. Do
not allow them to go off by themselves and unite. Do not permit any intimate,
direct links to develop between them. Any contacts they have must be with us
and through us. Therein lies information and influence. Do not permit them to
discuss any problems without us being present. Where there are two Americans,
there must be at least one Jew. Be omnipresent!
If you do not succeed in
blocking the young and forward-looking Americans and in preventing them from
expressing themselves, make them manipulatable. Draw them into your groups,
surround them with a strong Jewish presence, and deprive them of any contacts
and acquaintances outside of your influence. Compel them to marry Jewesses, and
only then give them a go-ahead. Do not be afraid: their children will be ours
whatever happens. Whoever the bull that leapt on board may belong to, its calf
will be ours.
By helping such Americans, you
are contributing to the cause of our Jewish community. From now on their wages
will be our national income. For the sake of their children, they will lose
their “civil rights”, their feelings and their intelligence, and in any case,
it will not be possible for them to be antisemitic. Cohabitation with a Jewess
is one way of attracting talented Americans into our sphere of influence and
interest.
Take beautiful, healthy
American women as your wives. Let them bear us healthy offspring and improve
our race. Thus, every forward-looking American must be given a Jewish girl
friend or boy friend. If every American takes at least one Jew away with him,
we shall all be all right.
Give bribes and presents to
the Americans. Give them fine wine and vodka to drink, or, better still,
spirits sold under a State monopoly. They will sell anything, including their
own country, in exchange for trinkets and poison.
FASCISM IS
NOT AN ACCIDENTAL PHENOMENON. IT ARISES IN PLACES WHERE WE UNDERESTIMATE THE
LOCAL PEOPLE’S EFFORTS TO BE THE OWNERS OF THEIR OWN LAND.
A final piece of advice. Be
vigilant. The Spanish Inquisition and German Fascism must not be repeated. Nip
in the bud any attempts to put society in opposition to us, and destroy any
anti-Jewish tendencies at the very outset, whatever shape they may take.
Fascism is not an accidental phenomenon. It arises in places where we
underestimate the local people’s efforts to be the owners of their own land.
Fascism develops secretly in all nations. Luckily for us, different nations
start practicing fascism at different times and under different names.
Buy up, steal and destroy any
literature which reveals our tactics and strategy and which represent the Jews
in a bad light. Do not permit such works to be re-published. The goy nations
must not remember or know the actual reasons for Jewish pogroms and
persecutions. They must only know our interpretation of such questions.
Pay particular attention to
unyielding, obstinate people, who do not want to bow to our superiority, do not
want to work for us and are opposed to our practices and our policies. Sooner
or later such people will develop into antisemites. Do not allow little
antisemites to grow into people who take part in big pogroms! Let them tire
themselves out at the very outset with their stubborn idea of national dignity.
Expose them using any pretext and any reason to place them in a compromising
position, and oppose them with all the means available. So long as they are alone,
they will be unable to hold out against our collectivism and against our
onslaught. They may be in the right a thousand times over with their
trivialities. But they are in the wrong nonetheless if they stand in our way.
Spread compromising rumors
about these stubborn people, give them a dubious reputation, and in the end
they will then begin to be feared even by those who support them, who know them
well and who have a very high opinion of them.
You must deprive them of any
connections and contacts, and make it impossible for them to work effectively.
Cast doubt on whether the work they are doing and the positions they hold serve
any useful purpose. Isolate them, stir up the crowd against them, deprive them
of influential positions in society, and provoke them into conflicts. Humiliate
them, ignore them, offend them with unfair incentives and unjust penalties, and
when they protest, accuse them of being disobedient, insubordinate, quarrelsome
and troublesome.
Appeal to the public and to
the administrative authorities, drag these obstinate people before the Legal
System and to the Police. If possible, take them to court.
If you are older than them,
accuse them of breaching the principle of respect for one’s elders. If you are
the same age as them, accuse them of breaching the principle of brotherhood,
and be quite sure to blame them for violating the principle of
internationalism. The effectiveness of these methods has been proven over many
generations. This is how all so-called “exploiters” act, being impelled by the
need to keep the nations in a state of obedience. The chief point is that they
must be accused. Let them try to defend themselves. Anyone who tries to defend
himself is already half guilty!
ONLY THOSE
WHO SUBMISSIVELY FOLLOW US AND GO ALONG WITH US HAVE THE RIGHT TO PRIVILEGES
AND A QUIET LIFE.
If the opportunity arises,
move their behavior into the political arena, write denunciations and anonymous
letters about them, accuse them of antisocial behavior and economic sabotage.
Provoke them into publicly opposing State power, and then destroy them with the
aid of that same State power.
Only those who submissively
follow us and go along with us have the right to privileges and a quiet life.
Those who wish to go their own independent way are potentially dangerous and
must be deprived of all kinds of support and of the means of existence.
There must be either order we
impose, or complete disorganization. Chaos must reign in any place where goys
wish to manage without us! Act so that disorder continues until the exhausted
goys, having become desperate, ask us to take power into our own hands and give
them a quiet life.
The goys must work under our
leadership and be beneficial to us. Those who are of no benefit to us must be
expelled. There is no public benefit beyond our interests! Anyone who is not
with us are against us! An eye for an eye! A tooth for a tooth! That is what
Moses taught, and that is how our forefathers lived. And that is how we shall
live too. Revenge is a sacred feeling. It forms a person’s character and
affirms his validity. Abandon any feeling of submissiveness and humility
towards those who have offended us. Let the stupid goyim keep for themselves
the slogans of Christian charity, meekness, humility, and self-denial – they are
exactly what the stupid goyim are worthy of.
Promote, implant and propagate
the Christian “virtues” among the goys, but as for yourselves, you must remain
hard and uncompromising at heart. Be uncompromising towards our enemies! If you
forgive them a small offence today, they will inflict a big offence on you
tomorrow. Do not become accustomed to being offended, and repel other people’s
desire to cause you offence.
Let the goyim urge one another
to be cautious, moderate and flexible in relation to us. Let them be cautious
in holding back our onslaught. We must act decisively and rapidly, always
confronting them with accomplished facts. After this, let them hold long
fruitless discussions. They have no weapon against our methods. Even if, after
reaching a tough decision, they do one thing – by the time they have had this
idea, reached an agreement, and done that one thing, we shall have done ten
more important things. Let the resistance they offer be the stimulus we
require, not an obstacle to us. We need their opposition so that we can
maintain our fighting spirit and our preparedness, but that is the only purpose
for which we need it.
Never relax the pressure. The
tougher the resistance of the goys is, the greater our losses will be, Our
income and the amounts which we accumulate, will therefore have to increase
correspondingly. The profit we are making today must cover any possible losses
in future pogroms, which take place in every country from time to time. Let the
goys pay today for the fact that they will later, somewhere else in the world,
take back part of what is theirs.
We must always be ready to
leave the anger and hatred of the goys behind and go away to a place where
people will accept us because they naively hope that their economy can be revived
by the means of our capital.
Part of our strategy is to
switch countries from time to time in search of more favorable living
conditions. This is the meaning of the symbol of Agasfer, the “ETERNAL JEW”,
indefatigable optimist and eternal wanderer.
But if we do have to go away,
we must go away healthy and rich, and not poor and sick. Money is our legs.
We move our center of gravity
to the place to which our money, our capital, has previously been transferred.
From time to time – after
becoming materially stronger in the countries of our diaspora, and after
collecting our tribute from them – we assemble in the land of our forefathers
to fortify our spirit, our power, our symbols, and our belief in unity.
We assemble in order to
disperse again. And so throughout all the ages.
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