Theodor Herzl – Address to the First Zionist Congress – August 29, 1897
You know that in some lands the Jewish problem has come to mean calamity for the government. If it sides with the Jews, it is confronted by the ire of the masses; if it sides against the Jews, it may call disagreeable economic consequences down upon its head because of the peculiar influence of the Jews upon the business affairs of the world. Examples of the latter may be met with in Russia.
So what what was he saying? He was saying that the Jews have a peculiar way of scheming together to cause financial hardships on the countries that they don’t like – and that is huge amount of power – and he was telling us that the Jews had done that to Russia and the reason why the Russian people resented the Jews and why they wanted them out of Russia. They considered the people of the entire world to be their enemies and they are only 0.02% of the population of the world.