Nadene Goldfoot
People of today will be very surprised to find out that Henry Ford did more to cause anti-Semitism than even General Patton. "Henry Ford was a prominent American industrialist whose promotion of severe antisemitism significantly amplified hate speech and conspiracy theories in the United States and abroad." What is sickening are the Jews who worked making Fords, or mechanics working only on Fords who were Jews during any years, because they had a good job. Dearborn is an inner-ring suburb of Detroit in Wayne County, Michigan.
- Population: Approximately 110,000 residents (ranking as the seventh-largest city in Michigan). Automotive Roots: Known globally as the hometown of Henry Ford and the headquarters of the Ford Motor Company
- The Newspaper: In 1918, Ford purchased a local weekly paper, The Dearborn Independent, which grew to reach a circulation of nearly 900,000 readers by 1926. Ford Motor Company dealerships were heavily pressured to distribute and sell subscriptions to the public. Antisemitic Content: Beginning in May 1920, the paper published a multi-year series of articles titled "The International Jew: The World's Problem".
- The articles heavily relied on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion—a notorious 20th-century Russian forgery—falsely claiming a global Jewish conspiracy controlled banking, media, politics, and cultural shifts like jazz, movies, and modern social mores. Book Publication: The articles were later compiled and distributed into four bound volumes translated into multiple languages, including German. Talk about a brain-washing.
- Ford was a conspiracy theorist who drew on a long tradition of false allegations against Jews. Ford claimed that Jewish internationalism posed a threat to traditional American values, which he deeply believed were at risk in the modern world. Part of his racist and antisemitic legacy includes the funding of square-dancing in American schools because he hated jazz and associated its creation with Jewish people In 1920, Ford wrote, "If fans wish to know the trouble with American baseball they have it in three words—too much Jew.
- In 1918, Ford purchased his hometown newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. In early 1920, Ford procured a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamously antisemitic fabricated text. He instructed the editors at the Independent to adapt the material in the Protocols to appeal to American audiences.] Later in 1920, Ford's paper began publishing a series of articles in the paper, claiming a vast Jewish conspiracy was affecting America. The series ran in 91 issues. Every Ford dealership nationwide was required to carry the paper and distribute it to its customers. Ford later bound the articles into four volumes entitled The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem, which was translated into multiple languages and distributed widely across the US and Europe, selling more than 500,000 copies The International Jew blamed nearly all the troubles it saw in American society on Jews. The Independent ran under Ford's ownership until its closure in 1927. With around 700,000 readers of his newspaper, Ford emerged as a "spokesman for right-wing extremism and religious prejudice.
- In Germany, Ford's The International Jew, the World's Foremost Problem was published by Theodor Fritsch, founder of several antisemitic parties and a member of the Reichstag, influencing German antisemitic discourse. In a letter written in 1924, Heinrich Himmler described Ford as "one of our most valuable, important, and witty fighters". Ford is the only American mentioned favorably in Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf, which appeared five years after Ford's antisemitic pamphlets were published in book form.
- Impact and Influence on Adolf Hitler
- Admiration by the Nazis: Ford's writings deeply influenced the early Nazi party. Adolf Hitler praised Ford in Mein Kampf (1925), kept a portrait of Ford in his office, and translated The International Jew into German during the 1920s. Hitler viewed Ford as a leader of a fascist movement in the United States.
- Nazi Honors: In July 1938, on Ford's 75th birthday, Hitler awarded him the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest decoration the Nazi regime could bestow on a foreign national.
- Lawsuit, Apology, and Legacy
- The Sapiro Lawsuit: In 1927, lawyer Aaron Sapiro filed a high-profile libel lawsuit against Ford over the antisemitic articles. Closure and Apology: Facing intense pressure, a public backlash, and potential financial ruin, Ford shut down The Dearborn Independent in December 1927 and issued a signed retraction and apology, though he largely distanced himself from personal accountability for the publication's contents.
- Cultural & Demographic Identity: Dearborn is widely recognized as a major center of Arab American culture, featuring a large Lebanese and Iraqi population, vibrant commercial thoroughfares like Warren Avenue, the Arab American National Museum, and the Islamic Center of America.
- Geography & Layout: The city is divided roughly into East Dearborn (known for its dense Arab-American community and culinary spots) and West Dearborn (featuring residential neighborhoods and commercial areas)
- Despite his intense public campaign of hate, Ford also employed Jewish individuals (such as his chief architect Albert Kahn), and maintain complex personal relationships with local figures like Detroit's Rabbi Leo Franklin. it was money that blinded them; that and the needs of their family.
- Following Kristallnacht in 1938, Ford expressed verbal sympathy for Jewish refugees seeking entry into the U.S. within quotas, even as his earlier published propaganda continued to be reprinted and weaponized by white supremacist and nationalist groups.
- He opposed his country's entry into World War II, and served for a time on the board of the America First Committee. After his son Edsel died in 1943, Ford resumed control of the company, but was too frail to make decisions and quickly came under the control of several of his subordinates. He turned over the company to his grandson Henry Ford II in 1945. Upon his death in 1947, he left most of his wealth to the Ford Foundation and control of the company to his family.
- What kind of 2-facedness has he shown? It's again, my opinion, but that's how he used to snow his parents, I feel, back-tracking, saying he didn't mean it. I don't know why, but this guy used Jews as the scapegoat of all problems he encountered while getting to tell the world it was he, Henry Ford, who discovered this.
- Resource;
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford











