But as Moderns
became, externally, similar to the gentile, thinking thus to evade the issue. It failed. For no sooner had he made this change in himself than the gentile shifted ground, went from the religious to the ethnic.
What happened in Germany is happening elsewhere. As fast as the Jew modernizes, so fast does dislike of him adapt itself to the new situation and find a new excuse. Where the Jew is disliked it is the modern Jew who is disliked equally with the old-fashioned. The Klan, the Consul, the Dearborn Independent, the Dwa Grosse, the Action Française no longer preach the modernization of the Jew as a solution of the Jew problem. No Jew, however modern, or radical, is acceptable to the anti-Semite. It is now a racial question.
But you still have an answer. You say: "These new forms of anti-Semitism are hangovers: we have had anti-Semitism with us for a long time. It is hard to get rid of. The effects linger long after the cause disappears. But in time..."
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