The order of the Bnai-Brith is an order of international Freemasonry reserved exclusively for Jews (they demand to be admitted to all societies, but they nevertheless prohibit non-Jews from entering theirs).
It was founded in New York in 1843 but at present its headquarters are in Chicago.
It divides the world into 11 districts of which 7 are in the United States. The number of its lodges is about 500 with nearly a hundred thousand adherents.
The four members of its executive committee who do not live in the United States are respectively at Berlin, Vienna, Bucharest and Constantinople. There are lodges throughout the whole world. The names of the directors (at least, those who are known) are the same as are to be found in all the great Jewish organizations, the same names which crop up again and again.
Nobody has cast doubt on the importance of the Bnai-Brith. When in 1909 the United States Government denounced the Commercial Treaty with Russia. President Taft, putting the interests of his country before Jewish interests at first resolutely opposed this rupture, but without success for he was speedily vanquished.
In order to show clearly that this sacrifice was mainly due to the Bnai-Brith the President presented it with the pen which had served to notify Russia of the denunciation of the treaty.
There is moreover no candidate for the Presidency of the great American Republic who does not court the friendship of this order. According to well informed sources there is in the Bnai-Brith a superposition of secret societies ending in a single governing power. Above the Bnai-Brith are the Bnai-Moshe, then the Bnai-Zion and finally the hidden centre of supreme command. I can only mention it without proof.
The Poale Zion
Here is what Elie Ebehlin, author of Les Juifs d’aujourd’hui (The Jew of Today) says on this subject:
The Poale Zion societies have assigned to the Jewish proletariats the final aim of creating a Jewish socialist state in Palestine. The following are some extracts from the programme of the party:
“Poale Zion works for the creation of a political and national centre in Palestine; it extols an active struggle against the existing social order . . . Poale Zion adopts the progamme of the international socialist party which tends to the abolition of capitalist society and to the establishment of a socialist state . . . The party considers the establishment of a national and political centre in Palestine an essential condition for the existence and normal development of the Jewish people.
“Poale Zionism pursues its task in Russia, Austria, Palestine and elsewhere. At the present time it appears as the only international proletarian Jewish party. One of its fractions adheres to the Communist International, the other to the Socialist International.”
Another party, the “Bund” (union of Jewish workmen of Lithuania, Poland and Russia) had a similar programme but wished to see it realized in Russia and not in Palestine.
“The role of these parties in Russia and Palestine before the Great War has been considerable. Actually the Bund, considering that its programme has been realized in Russia has become merged in the Communist and Menshevik parties of the URSSR.”
It does not seem an exaggeration to say that the Jews form a nation among the nations with powerful international organizations of which some are secret.
To conclude from this that these organizations are all under the sole direction of a hidden Jewish world government is hardly probable. If several manifestations of Jewish power (among others the Dreyfus affair, Jewish immigration into America after the War), have shown that there were international directions, on the other hand there are often in the bosom of Judaism violent disagreements.
I do not believe moreover that a sole central direction is needed to explain the unity of action of Judaism. The religious exclusiveness, the solidarity of the race, the community of mind and of interest are amply sufficient.
It is the revolutionary and Messianic aspiration of a whole people rather than a conspiracy rightly so called. This tendency is thus summed up by Bernard Lazare:
“The Jew is anti-social in a state based on Christian (or rather religious) principles but does society have any other base?”
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