My Irrelevant Defence being
Meditations Inside Gaol and Out on

JEWISH RITUAL
MURDER

by ARNOLD LEESE
Dedicated Without permission to
Mr. OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON, M.P.,
and Hon. Mr. JUSTICE GREAVES-LORD. 		1938, LONDON:
The I.F.L. Printing & Publishing Co.,
30, Craven Street, W.C.2.
Picture Postcard widely circulated in Poland showing ritual
murder of Agnes Hruza, age 19. Jew named Hilsner was found
guilty of this crime. (Date 1899, Story in Chapter 10).
"Soul had they none, nor lineage;
"Nor wit, nor headmen,
"Nor crafts, nor letters,
"Nor e'en a glimpse of God."

-- British Edda.

"Ye are of your father the devil
and the lusts of your father ye will do.
He was a murderer
from the beginning...."

-- St. John, viii, 44.

"In order to destroy the prestige of heroism for political crime, we shall send it for trial in the category of thieving, murder, and every abominable and filthy crime. Public opinion will then confuse in its conception this category of crime with the disgrace attaching to every other and will brand it with the same contempt."

Protocol 19 of the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

"If I am killing a rat with a stick and have him in a corner, I am not indignant if he tries to bite me and squeals and gibbers with rage. My job is, not to get angry, but to keep cool, to attend to my footwork and to keep on hitting him where it will do the most good."

-- A. S. Leese, speaking at Reception, 17th Feb., 1937, on his return from prison.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

  1. Human Sacrifice And Semitic Tradition
  2. The Racial Urge
  3. Human Sacrifice And The Jewish Religion
  4. The Motive And Nature Of Jewish Ritual Murder
  5. A Relic Of The Days Of Witchcraft And Blackmagic
  6. It Couldn't Happen Now
  7. Jewish Ritual Murder In England Before The Expulsion, 1290
  8. Well Authenticated Cases In Early And Mediaeval Times, 1190 To 1510
  9. Well Authenticated Cases In Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries
  10. Well Authenticated Cases In Nineteenth Century
  11. Well Authenticated Cases In The Present Century
  12. The Jewish Defence
  13. Evidence Of Converted Jews
  14. Cases Confirmed By Constituted Authority
  15. The Attitude Of The Catholic Church Towards Jewish Ritual Murder
  16. The Attitude Of The Protestant Church Towards Jewish Ritual Murder
  17. Other Cases Worthe Of Credence
  18. Two Queer Happenings
  19. What Of These?
  20. Irrelevant Meditations
    Bibliography Of Works
    Supporting The Blood Accusation