By Benito Mussolini
Davar is a Jewish magazine, published in Milan, devoted to "Israelite culture, art and current affairs". In the latest issue of May-June, there is an article dedicated to celebrating the feast of the Revelation on Sinai, a revelation which was made by God exclusively to the "Jewish people" because, according to legend, the other peoples whom God asked, namely the Assyrians and the Arabs, did not want to accept God's commandments: the Assyrians did not want to accept the commandment not to kill, and the Arabs did not want to stop stealing.
The author of the article states that the "Jewish people" were prepared to receive the Mosaic Law through the perfection of the patriarchs, and that this law had to be diffused among all nations, because — he says — "the myth of Jewish exclusivism is an invention of those who seek to denigrate the Jewish people." Taking the Mosaic Law as the purpose of their life, the "Jewish people" defied centuries of physical and moral torture.
The author says:
"Only a profoundly spiritual idea has the ability to withstand the maze of the whole world gathered together to suppress it; only an idea can survive the various historical moments of the people who possess it."We acknowledge that this is true.
And, furthermore, the author, with a lyrical impetus, writes:
"The vilified Israel, the scorned Jewish people, have surpassed not only thousands of years of history, but two millennia of wandering and fractional life."The article thus concludes:
"Despite internal uncertainties, and in spite of external hostilities, with the law and for the law, Israel will continue its own history."This article is an act of sincerity that we greatly appreciate. We prefer this to the polemical contortions and equivocations that are often cunningly spread on the matter. Not worthy of blame, but worthy of praise is the Jew who admits he feels Jewish not because of his religion, but because of his race; the Jew who feels he belongs to "another people" with "its own history", a people which has never assimilated or mixed with "other people".
By confounding religion with race and race with religion, the Jews have saved themselves from "contamination" with other peoples. The Jews' relations with the other peoples they came into contact with were characteristically defined by Dr. Magulies, a former rabbi from Florence. The Jew — he said — is to other people like oil in water: it is in the water, but it is not mixed with the water. Israel is a successful example of racism, which has lasted for thousands of years, and is a phenomenon that arouses profound admiration.
The Jews, therefore, have no right to complain when other people practice racism.
