From Groucho Marx to Alex Edelman, sometimes the best weapon against Jew hatred is a great punchline.
Sir Moses Montefiore:
The great British philanthropist and Orthodox Jew Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) was once seated at a dinner party next to an antisemite who declared he’d just come back from a trip to Japan, where they “have neither pigs nor Jews.”
Without pause, Sir Moses replied “Accordingly, you and I should go there so they can have a sample of each.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli:
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was immensely proud of his Jewish family’s Levite status. (In ancient times, Levites worked in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.) One day in Parliament, an MP named Daniel O’Connell attacked Disraeli in intensely antisemitic terms. Disraeli’s response was equally blistering:
“Yes, I am a Jew, and while the ancestors of the Right Honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.”
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