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(IsraelNN.com) A previously unpublished article by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stated that Jews are mainly responsible for being persecuted. "The central fact which dominates the relations of Jew and non-Jew is that the Jew is ’different’. "He looks different. He thinks differently. He has a different tradition and background. He refuses to be absorbed," Churchill wrote in 1937 in an article entitled How The Jews Can Combat Persecution.

The article was published for the first time this week. In it, Churchill described the wave of anti-Semitism sweeping through Europe, "It would be easy to ascribe it to the wickedness of the persecutors, but that does not fit all the facts... It may be that, unwittingly, they are inviting persecution--that they have been partly responsible for the antagonism from which they suffer."

Churchill's secretary advised him at the time not to publish the article.