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If you are anti-Semite, I, the Semite, am an anti-Semite too, and a much more fervent one than even you are. We have erred, my friend, we have most grievously erred. And if there was truth in our error 3,000, 2,000, nay, a 100 years ago, there is now nothing but falseness and madness, a madness that will produce an even greater misery and an ever wider anarchy.

If you are anti-Semite, I, the Semite, am an anti-Semite too, and a much more fervent one than even you are. We have erred, my friend, we have most grievously erred. And if there was truth in our error 3,000, 2,000, nay, a 100 years ago, there is now nothing but falseness and madness, a madness that will produce an even greater misery and an ever wider anarchy.

Oscar Levy (Jewish author) Prefatory letter to “The World Significance Of The Russian Revolution”, 1920