The Statement of Benjamin Franklin

At the Constitutional Convention in 1789

concerning Jewish Immigration.

Copy of the original from the written records of Charles Pickney of South California, of the proceedings during the drafting of the United States Constitutions at the Constitutional Convention in 1789

(Original in Franklin Institute, Philadelphia)

(( There is a great danger for the United States of America. That great danger is the Jew. Gentlemen, in whichever land the Jews have settled, they have depressed the moral level and lowered the degree of commercial honesty. They have created a state within a state, and when they are opposed, they attempted to strangle the nation financially, as in the case of Portugal and Spain))

..(( For more than 1700 years they have lamented their sorrowful fate, namely, that they were driven out of the motherland; but gentlemen, if the civilized world today should give them back Palestine as their property, they would immediately find pressing reasons for not returning there. Why? Because they are vampires and cannot live on other vampires. They cannot live among themselves. They must live among Christians and others who do not belong to their race.))..

..((They are not excluded from the United States by the Constitution within less than a hundred years they will stream into the country in such numbers that they will rule and destroy us, and change our form of government for which Americans have shed their blood and sacrificed life, property, and personal freedom. If the Jews are not excluded, within 200 years our children will be working in the fields to feed the Jews, while they remain in the Counting House gleefully rubbing their hands.)).

..((I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude the Jew forever, your children and your children’s children will curse you in your grave.))..

(( Their ideas are not those of Americans. The leopard cannot change his spots. The Jews are a danger to this land, and if they are allowed to enter, they will imperil its institutions.))....They should be excluded by the Constitution…