“Jews Are Guilty Unless Proven Innocent” Napoléon I
NOVANEWS
by TUT editor
ED-NOTE - 210 years ago, on Saint Patrick's Day, Emperor Napoléon I decided to settle once and for all the 'Jewish Question' or 'Jewish Problem'.
Not fully understanding the nature of the disease he was trying to diagnose, Napoleon had first been rather sympathetic to the Jews whom he saw as 'normal' French citizens who simply followed a different religion. Indeed, Napoleon and post-monarchy France had done all they could to welcome the 40 000 Jews who had been parasitizing the country into the Brotherhood of Mankind under the French flag. France was the first country to fully emancipate the Jews in 1791; it gave them all the civil liberties everyone else enjoyed, the same rights but also the same duties and responsibilities attached to any citizenship. F...