The Ashkenazi Revolution

77there is no basis to deny them to the Jews of Alsace, and this is adangerous thing because equal rights for Jews would cause retributionagainst them in Alsace…With a wide majority it was decided: “The National Assembly sets the lawthat all the Jews, who are known in France as Portuguese, Sephardim andAvignionians, should be given all the same rights that were given themuntil now by way of the patents of the king, and they can therefore use alltheir active citizens rights, if they fit the conditions that were set for themby the assembly.Thus did the Sephardim guarantee themselves equal rights while leavingthe Ashkenazim denigrated outcasts. Equal rights for Ashkenazim weregranted when it became impossible to delay it any longer. Dubnov says:In the end, the time came when it was impossible to delay the JewishQuestion any longer. After two years of toil, the “founding” NationalAssembly finished drawing up its constitution, and the king approved it(December 14 th ). From among the general principles of the constitution itbecame clear that all citizens gained equality through them and,automatically, this also applied to the Jews (ibid. page 1750).The Ashkenazi historians have refused, no matter what, to call it what it is.Had they explained the facts as they are, they would say that what we havebefore us is a war between two Jewish peoples, in which the attacking sideuses not weapons but the sword of the tongue, which is slander. Instancesof slander, which we have cited, are only a small part of a completecampaign of defamation, bringing about failure and harm, which waspracticed by Sepharad against Ashkenaz. As mentioned, Ashkenaz hadbegun to migrate from its great center in Eastern Europe to the new andopen areas of France, England and the new continents. This flow was vitalto Ashkenaz, for Eastern Europe had turned into a region of dense anti-Semitism, in which had begun the process that ultimately led to a shockingculmination in the Holocaust. The mass exodus of Ashkenaz from EasternEurope was dependant upon the goodwill, and sympathy, of the peoples of