WERE THE FIRST JEWS SPOOKS?

WERE THE JEWS ORIGINALLY NEGROES?

EUROPEAN painters and sculptors by their use of white models to typify
*-J Biblical characters have falsified tremendously the physiognomy of
the ancient Jews. We are familiar with the scores of portraits offered
to us as Christ. But do good Christians ever stop to think what he
really looked like? Josephus, first century historian, described him
as dark skinned and simple in appearance, in the Halosis, suppressed
portion of his work.*

Solomon, too, is portrayed as a white man, though in the Songs
attributed to him he speaks of himself as "black but comely." After
visiting most of the leading galleries of Europe and America, the only
realistic painting of an Eastern crowd that I have ever seen is
"Christ and Barabbas" by Verlat in the Royal Museum of Antwerp where
the mob is clamoring for Barabbas in preference to Christ.

Solomon, too, is always painted white. The only picture I have ever
seen of him as a Negro was in a certain luxurious palace of Cytherea
in Paris.

Mention was made of the biblical theory that Negroes became black
because Noah, supposedly white, cursed the sons of Ham. But the
earliest Jews were in all probability, Negroes.

Abraham, their ancestor, is said to have come from Chaldea and the
ancient Chaldeans were black. "The Chal-dees," says Higgins, "were
originally Negroes." As was said, too, relics of prehistoric Negroes
have been discovered in this region.

It is even possible that the Jews originated, not in Asia, but in
Africa. Gerald Massey has advanced considerable argument in proof of
that theory.

Whatever was the original color of the Jews they lived for more than
four centuries among the Negroid Egyptians. Their supposed oppressor,
the Pharaoh, Mernepthah, shows marked Negroid traits.

Only seventy Jews went to Egypt, but according to the Bible, 600,000
men left it, which must have meant an additional two or three million
women and children. Since the Jews were slaves their women were
undoubtedly concubines of the Egyptians and must have produced mixed
offspring.

After more than three centuries of slavery almost every trace of the
first seventy Jews must have been lost, together with their culture.
Thus Jewish culture was Egyptian culture. For instance, the Egyptians
did not eat pork, and still do not eat it.

To get an idea what must have happened to only those seventy Jews,
think of what has happened to Negroes in the United States who came in
'See sources in "Nature Knows No Color-Line" p. 40.

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hundreds of thousands over a period of centuries and not all at once
as the Jews did in Egypt. The Negroes are so Americanized that were it
not for their color one would forget that they ever came from Africa.

The Falashas, or Black Jews of Ethiopia, are probably very ancient.
They claim lineal descent from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, call
themselves Beta-Israel (The Chosen People), and observe the passover.1

Tacitus (80 A.D.) says that many Romans of his time believed that the
Jews originated in Ethiopia, having left there to escape oppression
from Cepheus, the king. Whiston, translator of Josephus' History of
the Jews, asks with regard to this: "One would wonder how Tacitus or
any other heathen could suppose the African Ethiopians under Cepheus,
who are known to be blacks, could be the parents of the Jews, who are
known to be whites ?"2

But, as was said, the Negro Jews in Ethiopia are actually Jews.
More­over, it is only in the white men's lands that the Jews are
white, this being the result of intermixture with the whites. In the
black man's land they are black. If some Romans believed that the Jews
were of Ethiopian ancestry, there must certainly have been black Jews
in Rome. Negroes were very well known to the Romans.

Moses himself was black. In all likelihood he was the son of Pharaoh's
own daughter, which would account for his adoption and rearing for the
throne. The story of his finding in the bullrushes is so identical
with that told about Sargon, King of Babylon, who preceded him, that
to some it seems doubtful."3 Moreover, this finding a child in the
water is an old African tradition.

When Jehovah wished to give Moses a sign, so runs the famous legend,
he told him to put his hand into his bosom. The hand came out white,
proving that it could not have been white before. The miracle lay in
turning a black skin white, and turning it to black again. Hence the
perfect logic of the Mohammedan belief that Moses was a Negro.

As Sir T. W. Arnold says: "According to Mohammedan tradition Moses was
a black man as may be seen from the following passage in the Koran,
'Now draw thy hand close to thy side; it shall come forth white but
unhurt'— another sign (XX, 23). 'Then he drew forth his hand and lo!
it was white to the beholders. The nobles of Pharaoh said, "Verily
this is an expert enchanter." VII, 105-06).'"4


Similarly Suyuti tells: "A Negro who pretended to the gift of prophecy
was brought before al-Mamun (the Caliph) and said: 'I am Moses, the
son of Imram,' and al-Mamun said to him, 'Verily, Moses the son of
Imram

drew forth his hand from his bosom white, therefore, draw forth thy
hand white that I may believe thee.' "5

Turning to modern anthropology one finds confirming evidence. Ratzel
says: "The entire Semitic and Hamitic population of Africa has.. .a
mulatto character which extends to the Semites outside of Africa."6
Prof. Elliott Smith in "Human History," similarly states: "Every kind
of intermingling has taken place between the original groups of the
Negro, Hamitic and Semitic peoples."7

In the Sudan, Upper Egypt, and North Africa there are Jews whose color
and features are indistinguishable from Negroes. The Jews outside
Africa retain, large numbers of them, their Negroid traits.

Fishberg traces the physical resemblance between the white Jews and
the black ones. Speaking of the color prejudice among Jews in India he
says: "The white Jews keep aloof and do not associate with their
(black) co-religionists." Of the latter he says: "Such persons also
have a Jewish physiognomy, which is so specific that one would be
inclined to believe that they are of mixed blood, were they not so
cruelly maltreated by their white co-religionists and treated as black
Jews." They are kept at a respectable
« History of the Caliphs, (trans. H. S. Jarrett), p. 342. Calcutta,
1881. •History of Mankind. Vol. II, p. 246. i p. 143. London,
1934.




iFishberg, M., The Jew, pp. 117, 147-48; 120-134. London, 1911.
Nesfield, Brief View of the Caste System, para. 135. Massey, G. A.,
Book of the Beginnings, Vol. II, pt. 2. pp. 364-441. London, 1881.

2 Josephus' History of the Jews. Dissertation III, p. 923. London.
1841.
3 Jewish Encyclopedia. (See Moses).
4 The Preaching of Islam, p. 358. London. 1913
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distance and not permitted to enter the synagogue of the whites, nor
do they bury their dead in the same cemetery.

Dr. Hans Guenther in his "Rassenkunde des Judischen Volkes," does the
same. His work is illustrated with portraits of Negroid Jews of Europe
and elsewhere. As was already said he compares a portrait of Abraham
Plattje, a Hottentot, with that of Benjamin Disraeli, Jewish Prime
Minister of England.8 The resemblance is striking. Guenther,
it is said, did this

to depreciate the Jew but since we do not concede that Negro ancestry
is a disgrace we cannot consider that Guenther's alleged aim has
been achieved.

Count Adam Gurowski of Poland, who visited the United States in 1857,
said similarly, "Numbers of Jews- have the greatest resemblance to the
American mulattoes. Sallow carnation complexion, thick lips, crisped
black hair. Of all the Jewish population scattered over the globe
one-fourth dwells in Poland. I 'am, therefore, well acquainted with
their features. On my arrival in this country (The United States) I
took every light-colored mulatto for a Jew."9

Measurements of the skulls of Polish Jews in Whitechapel, London,
revealed that about 30 per cent of them were Negroid.10

The Negro strain is apparent among a considerable number of American
Jews. Some Jewish women go to Negro hair-dressing parlors to have
their hair straightened. The Island of Jamaica has a considerable
number of mulatto Jews, also.


8 pp. 90-95, 99-115, 143-148. Munich, 1930.
9 America and Europe, p. 177. N. Y., 1857.
10 Man, Vols. 5:6. No. 55, p. 93. Additional Bibliography:
Williams, J. J. Hebrewisms of West Africa. N. Y., 1930. Wheless, J. Is
it God's Word? N. Y., 1926. Wheless, J. Forgery in Christianity. N.
Y., 1930. Scribner's Maga Apr., May, June, July, 1929, for West
African Jews. Additional data and sources in Rogers, J. A. Nature
Knows No Color Line, pp. 122, 130, 140-142.