Que faisait Elizabeth Dilling, pro-nazie américaine, dans un kibboutz en 1939

Dans l'histoire de l'antisémitisme en Amérique au 20e siècle, plusieurs noms se démarquent pour leur haine des Juifs, pour avoir fomenté des troubles et pour leur sympathie envers le régime nazi.  Parmi ces noms figure celui d'Elizabeth Dilling [photo], une femme au foyer du Midwest qui devint la leader du "Mouvement des Mères" créé pour empêcher l'entrée de l'Amérique dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale du côté des Alliés contre l'Allemagne et auteur de livres malveillants contre les Juifs.  Ses propos anti-juifs sont encore cités par des antisémites notoires, comme David Duke, l'ancien grand gourou du Klu Klux Klan.

Picture a Day: A common belief of all the anti-Semitic racists was that the Jews were behind an international Communist conspiracy to take over America and the world's economy.  Christianity was under an existential threat. "The person who does not know that Jewry and Marxism are synonymous is uninformed," Elizabeth Dilling wrote. 

En 1939, Elizabeth et son mari Albert 
visitent le kibboutz Ma'ale HaHamisha

Dilling visited the Communist Soviet Union in 1931 and returned home a crusader against Communism.  She published a massive catalogue of threats to America, The Red Network -- A Who's Who of Radicalism for Patriots, in which among the thousands of names appeared, including Albert Einstein and leaders of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and National Council of Jewish Women.  

She wrote The Octopus under a pseudonym to warn of the threat of the "pro-Red, Anti-Christian" B'nai Brith Anti-Defamation League -- "The most colossally financed, coercive spy and propaganda machine in the United States."   In 1964 she co-authored The Plot Against Christianity, later titled The Jewish Religion, Its Influence Today, in which she (mis)quotes extensively from the Jewish Talmud.
 

Here are two excerpts from her toxic writing: 

"There is no moral, philosophical or ethical conflict whatsoever between Judaism and Marxist collectivism as they exist in actual practice. Marxism, to which all branches of Socialism necessarily adhere, was originated by a Jew, Karl Marx, himself of Rabbinical descent. Every Jewish source today boasts of his rabbinical ancestry. Marx did not actually originate anything, but merely “streamlined” Talmudism for Gentile consumption. 

No one who treasures American freedom wants fascism or Hitlerism for America, but it is only fair to note that Germany had 6,000,000 Communists bent on Red terrorist revolution and that Russian Jews had made themselves prominent in the Red movement, and that Nazism has directed its attacks more against conspiring, revolutionary Communist Jews, than against nationalist German Jews who aided Germany during the war."

So why did the Dillings visit the Ma'aleh Hachamisha kibbutz?

Prof. Glen Jeansonne, author of Women of the Far Right: The Mothers' Movement and World War II, offers a hint: 

"Dilling's travels in 1938 also took her to Palestine, where, she said, she filmed Jewish immigrants ruining the Holy Land. England had betrayed the Arabs by permitting Jewish immigrants to steal Arab land, she said, but the Arabs blamed the American government, which, they said, was Jewish-controlled."

We theorize that Dilling went to Palestine, and specifically kibbutzim, to document the eastern European settlers and their socialist, Communist-like, non-Christian lifestyle in which the traditional family structure was revolutionized with children sleeping away from their parents. 

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Dilling was indicted with 28 others for sedition.  The trial ended with a mistrial in 1944 when the presiding judge died.   Dilling died in 1966, but her writings are still quoted by rightwing anti-Semites like David uke, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.