[ April 23, 2024 ]
Ford’s antisemitism is well documented. Did the Dearborn Mayor worry that criticism of Ford’s Jew-hatred would inflame his community, which has shown more than a little solidarity with such hatred and bigotry?
Bill McGraw, editor of a local quarterly journal published by the city’s historical commission, felt that residents could stand to learn more about the unflattering side of the man who founded Ford Motor Company and pioneered assembly line production in his factories. During the 1920s, Mr. Ford spread virulent anti-Semitism in his weekly newspaper The Dearborn Independent. “In general, metro Detroit and its institutions tend to treat Mr. Ford gently when it comes to his dark sides,” he wrote. “But his anti-Semitism is much more than a personal failing.” And so when the latest issue of Mr. McGraw’s quarterly, The Dearborn Historian, arrived off the presses, it contained a special report on the extraordinary efforts by Mr. Ford to spread hate.
That’s when the mayor of Dearborn, John B. O’Reilly, decided to bar the city-financed journal from distribution. Mr. McGraw’s contract to edit the magazine was terminated.
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Copies of the magazine were delivered to the Dearborn Historical Museum, which distributes them, but they have since been returned to the printers.
In protest of the mayor’s decision, the city’s historical commission unanimously passed on Thursday night a nonbinding resolution — with one abstention — that asks for the magazines to be mailed to the journal’s 230 subscribers, all of whom are members of the museum.
Mr. McGraw, 67, who has lived in Dearborn for 31 years, was a longtime reporter and editor for The Detroit Free Press. He said that most educated people in southeast Michigan know that Mr. Ford was anti-Semitic. But the journal paints a clearer picture of the millions he spent on packaging his hateful message.
Readers learn of the large portrait of Mr. Ford hanging in Hitler’s office in 1931, and Hitler’s statement to a Detroit News reporter: “I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration.” (NY Times)
But Mr. McGraw also included in his report an article on how Mr. Ford’s descendants have consistently supported Jewish charities and cultural organizations; a recommended reading list of more than a dozen books and articles; and a one-page essay entitled “Why Write About Henry Ford’s Hateful Side?”
In the essay, he described the growing diversity of the Detroit region and the nation, and the backlash to it, which includes a well-documented rise in anti-Semitism.
Dearborn Michigan blocks exposé of Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism
Mayor of Dearborn, Michigan prevents magazine from being mailed out after it included article on Henry Ford’s hatred of Jews
INN, February 3, 2019:
Ford factory in Dearborn
The editor of a quarterly journal published by the historical commission of Dearborn, Michigan will not work on any more of the magazines after he published an article about Henry Ford’s history of anti-Semitism in the publication’s 100th anniversary issue.
Dearborn Mayor John B. O’Reilly prevented the January issue of the magazine, paid for by the city, from being mailed out. The Dearborn Historian magazine editor Bill McGraw, who worked on an issue-by-issue contract, also was let go.
The cover includes a black and white photo of Ford next to the quote: “The Jew is a race that has no civilization to point to, no aspiring religion, no great achievement in any realm.”
“I think given what’s going on in the world today with the rise of anti-Semitism, what happened to Pittsburgh in October and with the 100-year anniversary of the paper last week, it’s important to know that’s still playing a huge role online with extremists. It seems if Dearborn is going to be proud of Henry Ford, we should look at the whole picture,” McGraw, who has lived in Dearborn for 30 years, told The Detroit News.
The Dearborn Historical Museum Commission voted to call on O’Reilly to rescind his decision to not mail the magazines to its more than 200 subscribers.
Andrew Kercher, assistant chief curator of the Dearborn Historical Museum told the Detroit News that O’Reilly ordered acting chief curator Jack Tate to terminate their contract with McGraw, a former reporter and editor for the Detroit Free Press.
O’Reilly in a statement released on Friday afternoon said publishing Ford’s offensive opinions “could become a distraction from our continuing messages of inclusion and respect.” Dearborn’s population is about one-third Arab-American, according to the New York Times.
The article was published online on Deadline Detroit.
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48 Comments
5 years ago
Crooks and pro-jihadi criminals all around.
CNN and MSM canonises this pro-jihadi RINO while Egyptian media expose him for being Leading supporter of Muslim Brotherhood in America and Middle east https://tinyurl.com/y9hk3dpk
Its absurd and farcical how MSM Lies and brainwashes American citizens
5 years ago
It has been common knowledge that Henry Ford was an
anti-Semitic. That is not new NEWS. Though the quote that is given as his is
patently wrong in its conclusions about who the Jews are, and what they have
accomplished, the fact was that this man had an unjustified hatred of these
people. That is really not the issue today. The issue today is that his hate is
being actively promoted by people whose belief system looks to kill off any
person of Jewish persuasion. We all know
that these people of the Jewish persuasion
have contributed very many benefits to humanity in medicine, science, religion
(the first monotheistic religion and the giver of the Ten Commandments), as
well as in other professions, and we all know that the Jews have really never
been a war-like people, and we all know that the Jews were forced to live
within ghetto like communities by those who hated them without justification,
as Jewish belief system is generally based on goodness and morality; yet, today
we are dealing with a belief system (Islam), which in and of itself is
totalitarian and does not abide any religion other than theirs, and will do
everything they can to destroy the only country (Israel)in the world that
claims that its morality is based on the goodness of Judaism, though America is
also based on Judaic-Christian morality of goodness, respect and good
neighborliness, while Islamic states, of which there are many, treat non-Islamic
believers with hate and commit violent acts against them. We now must deal with
these Islamic believers in our Congress, and it sickens me that no one seems to
be willing to call them out for their anti-Semitism, and attempt to remove them
from office due to their patent animosity towards the Jews.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
yawn …………………….. ……… …………….
“”…Israel’s Settlements Have No Legal Validity, Constitute Flagrant Violation of International Law, Security Council Reaffirms …””
5 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
Face it, besides ALL moslem males being homosexuals, they are actually SO stupid … to think that human beings would believe their lies. One more bit of proof that moslems are the descendants of the cross-breeding of monkeys with pigs.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
besides (sic) ALL moslem males being homosexuals,
What a moron you are. You can produce no evidence for your inane twaddle, but you still keep spewing your hateful intellectual diarrhea.
5 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
What a blithering idiot’s blithering idiot you are. Have you enrolled in a remedial course for reading comprehension? When are you going to get around to reading “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”? I would also ask you about reading Nietzsche’s works, but … actually, it’s patently obvious that you don’t even have the ability to comprehend any of Mark Twain. TOO funny, little one. Why do you continue to HUMLIATE yourself? Is it in the vane hope that someone will actually “like you”? I truly pity you.
5 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Another showing of your exceedingly low level of education. Your “(sic)” … TOO funny … even a third grader knows that brackets “[ ]” are to be used, as in “[sic]” Simply hilarious … Once again, you HUMILIATE yourself. I truly pity you.
5 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
But it’s the truth and only travel in moslem countries will enable you to see that side of islamic culture first hand. All moslem males are indeed homosexuals.
I suggest you take a holiday in Morocco. Maybe go hiking. You’ll love the “diversity”
5 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
Quoting from a U.N. briefing report is like calling a dog a cat.
The U.N. is controlled by the Islamic world and it has no standing with people who can see the reality out there.
That is the problem with people like you, who allow their innate
anti-Semitism to overwhelm their common sense. Islam, in and of itself, is a
poisoned belief system that speaks to domination and the put down of anything
that is not Islamic. You simply cannot accept that reality. Israel is required to protect itself from the hateful
conduct emanating, not from the Jews,
but from the Muslim’s that threaten Israel and all Jews with death. You and people
like you, which includes Farrakhan, Sarsour and the new reps elected to
congress who spout the same garbage, require right thinking people to stand up
and point out your stupidity, which is all my comments were intended to do.
5 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
Arabs build illegally all over the Galilee.
Arabs squat on Israeli land and build illegally because they know they can get away with it.
5 years ago
Reply to
Arabs Build Illegally
how legal do u think white people occupation and native indians killing on north america ??
5 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
God’s law is superior to international law. The land of Israel has been granted by God to the Jews. Since Medina, Allah is not the Judeo- Christian God. Palestinians are foremost victim of Islam, religion imposed to their ancestors by Islamic warlords.
5 years ago
Reply to
Jan Favre
exactly …..
I really support the move to persuade UN to establish a binding resolution that land stealing is an exclusive and inherent right for Israel …
what do u think ???
5 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
Even the muslilms owe so much to the jews, because had old Mo not been able to steal so much from judaism, he would never have invented something as gruesome as islam!
5 years ago
Reply to
romain reuter
You phrased that wrong. You imply that thanks to his borrowings from Judaism, he thus invented something gruesome.
Making himself the”final” prophet, beheading and brutally killing the Jews (the people of the Book), twisting, misinterpreting and emphasizing negative and minimizing positive, merciful prescriptions in the Bible—those “inventions” certainly did not derive from borrowings from Jews or their Bible!
5 years ago
Reply to
Pinchas Baram
Sorry, you’re right there.I did certainly not mean to offend jewish people.What i meant is that Muhammad would not have been able to invent anything without stealing from judaism, christianity and other scriptures.
As a catholic i have highest respect for judaism.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
Well if you believe the biblical accounts the Jews could be very warlike in defence of their civilisation. Notablythey fought valiantly and suicidally against Roman occupation, to the extent that Rome finally destroyed them as a nation an distributed them as slaves around the empire
5 years ago
Wow,… times never seem to change,.. only the faces and names !!
5 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
It’s human nature.
Times may change but human nature does not change.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Did anybody hear that Soros was arrested yesterday in Switzerland or it’s a hoaks? It’s all over the Internet, but nothing in MSM.
5 years ago
Reply to
tatka150
That would make my day!!!!!
I have not heard or anything about this.
Keep us posted!!!!!!
His son is taking over but I doubt he is as devious as his father.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Actually, he is worse. There are 2 sons of George. Jonathon and Alex. Alex is the more politically active of the 2. Here they are.
Alex with the beard.
5 years ago
Reply to
ace wheeler
I think if it true about Soros’ arrest, his sons should go to jail together with him.They help him in his “achievements”, and I’ve read that they are worse then him. At least they are young,and it’s a great advantage and opportunity to continue evil’s work. I hope they would be arrested as well if the whole “Artwork” will be discovered. What we know- is a tip of the iceberg, I bet.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
It isn’t human nature Felix. It is delusion. Our nature is pure Spirit. We are created in God’s image, which is Light. Conscious Light, but we have forgotten it as we have identified with these mortal bodies.
We live in ignorance.
John 8:44 & I John 3:8
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I guess Cortez has more Arabic ancestors. Her Jewish roots are a lie.
5 years ago
Although I think I would have voted with the majority of the historical commission on this one, I do not consider it a “slam dunk”. The purpose of the Dearborn Museum is probably to reflect the glory of Dearborn and its illustrious history, etc,etc, in which Henry Ford played a central role. This article may even have violated the mandate of the Museum, and, unfortunately, if that is the case, I have little confidence that Pamela would bring it to readers’ attention. It’s not necessarily the job of the Museum or its journal to point out the abhorrent, hateful side of Henry Ford- in a free society, thoughtful people have ample avenues for learning the underside of Dearborn’s history, such as by reading churls like Pamela Geller!
My clearest reaction to this controversy is that it underscores the undesirability of government owning museums in the first place. This is clearly an example of government censoring what is undoubtedly accurate historical information that is part of the city’s legacy, a legacy the government would like to keep under wraps. If the historical society were private, I would merely have an aesthetic objection to their censoring this kind of provocative essay from being distributed in their name- as it is, it is uncomfortably Orwellian.
5 years ago
Unjust Muhammad said his Messiah would return when trees & stones would lure Muhammadists to unjustly murder Jews.
Hitler viewed the unjust Muhammadism as ultimate Nazi religion that as he told his architect & minister of war Albert Speer matches the German temperament better & many Nazi criminals openly converted to the unjust Muhammadism after the war & worked in the Egyptian Muhammadist tyranny under Nasser & in Syria.
Boeckler Wilhelm for example became Abd al Karim.
5 years ago
Reply to
Jay Wizzy
Boeckler Willhelm I will be sure to look that up but doesn’t Abd mean negro or black slave? (As in Abd al Karim)
5 years ago
I didn’t know that about Henry Ford.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
He helped Hitler to build his war machine indeed. But it was not only Ford. Many other industrial behemoths helped him as well. Like General Motors, IBM, Woolworth, George Bush’s grandfather, Coca-Cola and some other. Especially awful was Chase Bank. They gave up to gestapo in Paris the names of their Jewish customers. Customers were arrested and sent to the camps. The assets were stolen by Nazis.
5 years ago
This is why I have never bought a FORD product.
I am also getting censored on Breitbart for posting this link: https://wrapsnet.org/
It proves that the Tree of Life was actively supporting Hebrew Immigration Aid Society. HIAS. It’s CEO is Mark Hetfeld. They have demonstrated in front of the Capital with Muslims side by side, advocating for Muslims to be settled in the USA! They are one of 9 Federally Licensed Contractors that bring Muslim refugees into the US. American taxpayers support these contractors with upwards of a Billion dollars a year. Most people do not know that. Check for yourself.
Evidently Breitbart knows or they would not be censoring me.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Within the last month, BB has shown a strange predeliction for censoring that I have not seen before. I sense that they have hired either Muslims or leftists as monitors and censors. I was getting the same “personal attention” last year this time from Facebook. I’d write a post and no sooner post it then it was put on hold or rejected. They can see what we write here in real time. You know that don’t you?
5 years ago
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/10/06/hitler-populism-right-wing-ascent
Ford, like the Bush family and other industrialists, was also a great supporter of
and role model for Hitler and his gang of thugs. Not only Ford’s ethics, if one is to
call them that, but also his effective production methods fascinated the Nazis, the
Holocaust should also be as silent and efficient as possible. What fascinated the
Germans about the hysterical organ of these lunatic, which screamed out of the
Volksempfänger (“people’s receivers”), is also a mystery to me. Although it is well
known that Hitler did not shout at all privately. Guests of the show are the Jewish
historian Eric D. Weitz, and the Jewish publisher and Kissinger friend Joseff-Joffe,
who publicly called for murder of Trump, of course “disguised” as ironic side note.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2017/01/26/german-editor-murder-whitehouse-end-trump-catastrophe/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weitz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Joffe
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Didn’t know that it was a German who docu-
mented the Muslim genocide of the Armenians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_T._Wegner
5 years ago
According to the New York Times one third of the Dearborn population is “Arab American”
Now this sounds just as bad as the British press calling moslems “Asians”
I’m sure that the muzrat population of Dearborn also consists of Somali paki and other muzrat. FK PC!
PROSCRIBE ISLAM IN THE USA!????????
5 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
I’m sure it’s much MORE then 30%. Please watch U-tube movie about Dearborn today. This city has gone. Same as Twin Hills in Minnesota. If this doesn’t ring the bell, it means like everybody deaf and blind.
5 years ago
Reply to
tatka150
I get the same feeling when looking at some English towns. The statistics says one thing but my eyes see another.
This could be either because we are being lied to or that the muzrats just hang around outside more. No matter’ they need to be gone. The damage and pain they have caused us is un-forgivable.
PROSCRIBE ISLAM!????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
5 years ago
It surprises me that Dearborn does not have a moslem mayor. But that’s sure to change.
PROSCRIBE ISLAM IN THE USA !????????
5 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
ANNIHILATE ISLAM IN THE USA !!!! DEATH TO ISLAM ! Or did y’all forget about 9-11-01 ??? I HAVEN’T !!!!!!
5 years ago
Reply to
Dick Bates
I forget nothing.
islam is my war.
The only way you’ll get rid of islam in the USA is with legislation and the way to start that is to talk about islam as a very dangerous ideology and Not a religion as religious freedom is protected via the US constitution.
5 years ago
The admiration was mutual between Ford and Hitler –
5 years ago
In 1938 Henry Ford was awarded the Nazi Germany ‘Grand Cross of the German Eagle” an award given to supporters of the Nazis.
Ford used slave labor in his German subsidiary plant.
His son Edsel was also a Fourth Columnist Nazi.
.
Today,the history books are being rewritten by leftists who want their version of history,NOT the truth of it.
And everyone thought “1984” was fiction.
5 years ago
Hate to tell ya, I never heard of Ford’s foibles. And I’m from nearby state. Even been to Detroit, not Dearborn. Now that the Mayor was trying to preserve Ford’s reputation, the whole world knows the bad side. What a dope.
