Benjamin Franklin's warning

[Preacher]

Authenticity[edit]
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the supposed transcriber, wrote that he had kept a journal of the Convention, but it has never been found; no evidence exists for Pelley's claim that it was printed privately. The Franklin Institute has rejected his claims that it owns a manuscript copy of the prophecy.[citation needed]

Despite having been repeatedly discredited since its first appearance, the "prophecy" has proved a remarkably durable antisemitic canard. It has appeared most recently as a popular internet hoax promulgated on Usenet groups and antisemitic websites, where it is presented as authentic. On February 18, 1998, a member of the Fatah Central Committee revived this myth and mistakenly referred to Franklin as a former President of the United States.[1] Osama Bin Laden used this canard briefly in his October 2002 "Letter to the American People".[2]While its author is not known, many who have investigated the "prophecy" suspect Pelley of having penned it himself.

The U.S. Congress report Anti-Semitism in Europe: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on European Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations (2004) states:

The Franklin "Prophecy" is a classic anti-Semitic canard that falsely claims that American statesman Benjamin Franklin made anti-Jewish statements during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. It has found widening acceptance in Muslim and Arab media, where it has been used to criticize Israel and Jews...[3]

Franklin was a friend to the Jews of 18th-century America,[4] and contributed toward the building of Philadelphia's first permanent synagogue.[5]

Similar antisemitic quotations have been attributed to George Washington and have been disproven.[6] In 1790, in a marked sign of religious tolerance, Washington sent a letter to the Jewish community in Rhode Island, writing "May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid."[7]

Use of 19th- and 20th-century antisemitic terminology (an anachronism) shows that the supposed "Franklin Prophecy" is a forgery, as Benjamin Franklin died in 1790.[8]

Wikipedia says so! It can fit perfectly into the song jesus loves me....HAHA!

 

[Boss]

Wikipedia said so it must be true!

Well no. You see those little numbers in brackets all throughout the text? Those are called "citations" and they come from various sources, they're just compiled together at Wikipedia.

 

[Boss]

Odium, do you hate black people too? Or is it just Jews?

 

[there4eyeM]

Kicking the Nazis out would be a disservice to wherever they wound up kicked to. As was seen somewhere in the little illustration of Hitler blowing out what brains he may have had, his latter day faithful are welcome to do the same.