Mordecai Ham Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Racism and anti-Semitism== Ham had a reputation for racism and anti-Semitism.<ref>Balmer, R.H. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47208449 ''The encyclopedia of evangelicalism.''Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002.]</ref> He believed and preached on various topics based on classical [[Antisemitic canard|anti-Semitic canards]] such as believing Jews had special access to political power and influence and that they represent a subversive social force.<ref>Dinnerstein, L. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28631951''Antisemitism in America.''] New York : Oxford University Press. 1994.</ref> The targets for his preaching were often "nebulous rings of Jewish, Catholic or Black conspirators plotting to destroy white Protestant America."<ref name="worldcat.org">Hill, S. Lippy, C. and Wilson, C. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10727233 ''Encyclopedia of Religion in the South.''] Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2005, P.365.</ref> In 1926 [[W.O. Saunders]], a newspaper editor in [[Elizabeth City, North Carolina]], confronted Ham for defaming a prominent Jew during an evangelistic campaign. Ham had accused the President of [[Sears]], Roebuck & Company in Chicago, [[Julius Rosenwald]], of operating inter-racial prostitution rings in Chicago that exploited white women.<ref name="worldcat.org"/> Saunders wrote an account of the accusations Ham had made and how Saunders had proved them false called "The Book of Ham."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://highered411.com/Albemarle/BookOfHam.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227192554/http://highered411.com/Albemarle/BookOfHam.pdf |archive-date=2014-12-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Book was widely distributed, describing instances of Ham's negative views towards Jews. Ham believed in the ideas of [[British Israelism]], that the white Anglo-Saxon races had been chosen by God. Ham outlined this in a piece of writing called "the Need of the Anglo-Israel Truth" that is featured on some websites of the [[Christian Identity|Identity Movement]].<ref>Ham, M. [http://truthinhistory.org.html''The Need of the Anglo β Israel Truth.'']{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Unpublished paper.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://thetencommandmentsministry.us/ministry/blog/famous-believers/mordecai-ham|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104094529/http://thetencommandmentsministry.us/ministry/blog/famous-believers/mordecai-ham|title=The Ministry of Mordecai Ham on The Ten Commandments Ministry website|publisher=|archive-date=2016-11-04}}</ref> However, in his booklet "The Jew" he stated unequally, "though the sins of the Jew have been many and great, yet vengeance belongeth to the Lord, and He will not let you escape if you have hated, or do hate the Jew. Are you a Christian? No Christian will hate the Jew. Through him came the Christ and your Bible. The best, the greatest and the only perfect man who ever lived on earth was a Jew by race."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ham |first=Mordecai |title=The Jew |url=https://digital.library.sbts.edu/bitstream/handle/10392/5413/Ham-The_Jew-ocr.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page