Henry FORD : The International Jew – The Dearborn Independent, issue of 12 March 1921
There is no such thing as anti-Semitism. There is, however, much anti-Goyism. In England, Germany, France, America, Russia, there is no anti-Arab sentiment of which anyone knows. None of the Semite peoples have been distinguished by the special dislike of any other people. There is no reason why anyone should dislike the Semites.
It is very strange, however, that the Semitic people should be a unit in disliking the Jews. Palestine, which still has only a handful of Jews, is peopled by Semites who so thoroughly dislike the Jews that serious complications are threatening the Zionistic advances being made there. This surely is not anti-Semitism. Semites are not against Semites. But they are at odds with Jews.
Where Henry Ford got it right: In 1921, hardly any Muslims lived in the Western countries – and therefore there was no negative Muslim sentiments in the West! But after arriving in Palestine, the European Jews used their media to create negative impression of Muslims.
Where he got the wrong:
1. When he said that Semites are not anti-Semites, he considered the European Jews to be Semites – which is so hard for me – a Semite – to understand why a white man would consider another white man to be a Semite?
2. He got it wrong when he said that the Arabs had began to hate the Jews in Palestine because they were Jews . He failed to recognize that there were many Jews living in Muslim countries who were not facing the kind of hatred they were facing in Europe.
3. He failed recognize that many of the Jews living in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Turkey, Egypt, they had fled from Christian Europe and went to these Muslim countries.