Dear Lord Rotschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet. His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours
"To select, for approbation the peculiar elements that come from some supposedly Jewish heredity is to open the door to all kinds of nonsense on racial theory", adding, "at thirteen I was not only converted to other religious views, but I also stopped believing that the Jewish people are in any way 'the chosen people'" Richard Feynman
Melian Dialogue (Book V, chs. 84–116) from History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides Athenians: Since we are not come to make a display of speech, or to argue with you at length in a matter where the decision is already certain, but rather to secure our own interests and not to be misled by fine phrases, we shall begin. We
Tertullian — De Carne Christi 5 “The Son of God was crucified: I am not ashamed—because it is shameful. The Son of God died: it is wholly credible—because it is absurd. And, buried, He rose again: it is certain—because it is impossible.” Tertullian — De Carne Christi 3 “The resurrection of the dead is regarded as foolish by the
Decree Concerning the Administration of Criminal Justice Against Poles and Jews (December 4, 1941 — Published in Reich Law Gazette I, p. 759) Section I: Substantive Criminal Law 1. Poles and Jews in the incorporated Eastern territories shall conduct themselves in accordance with German laws and the regulations issued for them by German authorities. They shall abstain from anything that
There follows the odium that is attached to Jewish gold. This is no doubt the reason why this case is being tried not far from the Aurelian Steps. [Where the Jews of Rome gathered - 55 BCE] You procured this place and the crowd of Jews, Laelius, for this trial. You know how many of them there are in Rome,
Cn. Cornelius Hispalus, praetor peregrinus in the year of the consulate of M.Popilius Laenas and L. Calpurnius, ordered the astrologers by an edict to leave Rome and Italy within ten days, since by a fallacious interpretation of the stars they perturbed fickle and silly minds, thereby making profit out of their lies. The same praetor compelled the Jews, who attempted
Historiae, apud: Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, XII, 135-136 - Niese = Polybius, Historiae, XVI, 39:1, 3, 4-Biittner-Wobst = F21R (135) Polybius of Megalopolis attests these statements of mine; for in the sixteenth book of his History he says the following: "Scopas, the general of Ptolemy, set out for the upper country and during the winter subdued the Jewish nation." (136) And
FRAGMENTS OF BOOKS XXXIV AND XXXV 1. When King Antiochus,¹ says Diodorus, was laying siege to Jerusalem, the Jews held out for a time, but when all their supplies were exhausted they found themselves compelled to make overtures for a cessation of hostilities. Now the majority of his friends advised the king to take the city by storm and to