“We pray that the deceitful race be not allowed to infect this new colony.”

– Governor Peter Stuyvesant

These were not the dumb words of an ignorant backwoods anti-semitic redneck.

These were the wise words of the highest authority in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.

Jews keep Stuyvesant’s quote alive to imply anti-Semitism even on American soil, but the fact is that this strict Calvinist would have been even more adamant in not allowing his fellow Catholic variety of Christian in his settlement.  No complaints of Stuyvesant being anti-Catholic that I have come across.

In addition to portraying Stuyvesant as anti-Semitic, the two DVD documentaties,  A History of Jews in America and Jews in America, both have our lovely media-Scribes attempting to cast these settlers as the Jewish variety of old fashioned American Pilgrims.

Why---- they were just coming to America in search of religious freedom; a tired, poor wretch of a people, looking for sanctuary, in a land of liberty.

Excuse me, but that historical take is pure hogwash! Governor Peter Stuyvesant called them the “deceitful race” with good reason.

There was only one reason for any European to be in Brazil in that time period – sugar. And the sugar trade rested solely on the backs of imported black slaves brought to Brazil, on the Jewish slave ships these Jews owned.

These 23 unwanted Jewish "immigrants" were slave traders; merchants of black men and women; marketers of human flesh. They had blood on their hands and they would bring slavery to the very shores of America as well.

The Dutch had control of long stretches of the Brazilian coast from 1630 to 1654, but were expelled by the Portuguese in 1654. These Brazilian Jews simply had to find another place to live. They had no burning desire to come to America. Matters just forced that decision upon them. And so, they cannot be painted as American pilgrims yearning for freedom and liberty.

On the contrary, these hypocrites were in the business of enslaving non-Jewish men.

The following passages are from Dr. and Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael's book Jews and Judaism in the United States, a Documentary History (New York: Behrman House, Inc., Pub, 1983), pp. 14, 23-25.

"Jews also took an active part in the Dutch colonial slave trade; indeed, the bylaws of the Recife and Mauricia congregations (1648) (Towns in Brazil) included an imposta (Jewish tax) of five soldos for each Negro slave a Brazilian Jew purchased from the West Indies Company. Slave auctions were postponed if they fell on a Jewish holiday. In Curacao in the seventeenth century, as well as in the British colonies of Barbados and Jamaica in the eighteenth century, Jewish merchants played a major role in the slave trade. In fact, in all the American colonies, whether French (Martinique), British, or Dutch, Jewish merchants frequently dominated.

"This was no less true on the North American mainland, where during the eighteenth century Jews participated in the 'triangular trade' that brought slaves from Africa to the West Indies and there exchanged them for molasses, which in turn was taken to New England and converted into rum for sale in Africa. Isaac De Costa of Charleston in the 1750's, David Franks of Philadelphia in the 1760's, and Aaron Lopez of Newport in the late 1760's and early 1770's dominated Jewish slave trading on the American continent."

In fact, at the time of the American Revolution, Aaron Lopez referred to above, of Newport, Rhode Island, came from Lisbon as a Marrano Jew and within 20-years in America had acquired 30 transoceanic ships and more than 100 coastal vessals to become fabulously wealthy trading in black men's flesh.

Regardless, deserving or not, the rules had to be bent to accommodate the Jewish immigrants and Peter Stuyvesant's hands were tied to prevent it.

Today, there are in surplus of 1 million Jews in New York City.

And in their collective wisdom, they have selected Michael Bloomberg to represent their city as the latest Peter Stuyvesant.

What is this Jewish Peter Stuyvesant like?

"In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday the country’s interpretation of the Constitution will “have to change” to allow for greater security to stave off future attacks.

“The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry,” Mr. Bloomberg said during a press conference in Midtown. “But we live in a complex world where you’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.”

Hundreds of years later, Jews are still deciding what the rules will be for the rest of us. 

In the form of Michael Bloomberg, representing 1 million plus Jews, the Constitution should present no greater barrier to Jewish control than Peter Stuvesant presented to their ancestors.