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ISO 9001:2015, Clause 6.1—“Actions to address risks and opportunities,” relates to Clause 4.1—“Understanding the organization and its context.” The external context includes the social environment, which in turn includes social networking, a potentially devastating vehicle for the delivery of “fake news” that can damage an organization’s brand within a single day. Fake news is now being used as a weapon against small businesses, and allegedly even to manipulate the stock market.
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Ford was an Anti-Semite, pure and simple
The article not only has no place in Quality Digest, but treads in "fake news" in order to argue against the same.
The theory that Ford was "tricked" into publishing years and years of antisemitic materials, or somehow didn't know about them, has been debunked for decades, and is typically only trotted out on the farthest of the far-right websites.
The most definitive analysis of this story comes from Jonathan Logsden in the Hanover Historical Review (1999) (link: https://history.hanover.edu/hhr/99/hhr99_2.html ) This highly researched article is supported by hundreds of sources and citations, and is used as the definitive guide to the Ford/Jewish scandal. In that article, Logsden makes it clear that Ford not only knew exactly what he was doing when denigrating Jews, but kept doing it until his death.
Regarding Ford's "apology" facing public pressure re: the International Jew, Logsden wrote:
"This statement was a remarkable attempt at public image revisionism. In order for the public to accept it, they would conveniently have to forget all of the press interviews in which Ford had condemned the Jews. They would have to forget the anti-Semitic statements found in his own autobiography. They would have to forget his proclamation in 1921 that he had a "five years' course in sight" of anti-Jewish articles. They would have to forget the press releases that announced: "The Dearborn Independent is Henry Ford's own paper and he authorizes every statement incurred therein." They would have to forget Cameron's boast at a 1924 Ford branch manager's convention that "We never step out on any unusual program without first getting his guidance."
For years afterward, Ford continued to court Nazis and anti-Semites. In 1938 -- over a decade AFTER the publication of the International Jew -- Ford accepted a Nazi medal, the German Eagle Order. Logsden:
"Hitler had created the award himself as the highest honor a foreigner could receive from the Nazi government. Ford shared his award with only four other men, including Mussolini. The award consisted of a Maltese cross studded with four eagles and four swastikas, and came with Hitler's personal congratulations. It was presented to Ford, in honor of his seventy fifth birthday, in July of 1938 by German consuls Fritz Heiler and Karl Kapp. Newspaper pictures of the event showed a smiling Ford shaking the Heiler's hand as Kapp pinned the award onto Ford's jacket."
Later, in 1940, Ford again exhibited his antisemitism in interactions with Walt Disney. Logsden:
"Walt Disney was thinking of taking his studio public and asked Ford for his advice on the enterprise. Ford expressed his admiration for Disney because he was a successful Protestant in the film business-- a field dominated by Jews. However; Ford warned, Jews also controlled the stock market, and Disney would be wise to sell his company outright rather than lose it to "them" one piece at a time."
And even as late as 1947:
"Shortly before his death, Henry Ford was confined to his bed in a state of depression. His physician arranged for a reporter to visit, in an effort to arouse Ford from his gloomy state. The newsman innocently asked Ford what the chances were of his company going public. This was all it took, according to witness Jack Davis, to energize the old man. "I'll take my factory down brick by brick," Ford announced, "before I'll let any of the Jew speculators get stock in the company."
Meanwhile, websites and journals including Holocaust Online and the Jewish Anti-Defamation League -- a frequent target for Mr. Levinson's criticisms -- have published materials citing Ford as a known anti-Semite. This puts Quality Digest in an impossible position, having published an article that so directly contradicts history, and in doing so, promotes one of the world's most notorious hater of Jews, Henry Ford.
References used re: Ford
Mr. Paris’ statement “The theory that Ford was "tricked" into publishing years and years of antisemitic materials, or somehow didn't know about them, has been debunked for decades, and is typically only trotted out on the farthest of the far-right websites” is rather interesting, because the reference upon which this conclusion was based is a Web page in the Jewish Virtual Library, the same link cited in the article. “Resilient in his efforts, [Boris] Brasol sent a copy of the Protocols to automobile manufacturer Henry Ford, who was convinced that they were authentic. For the next two years, Ford gave the Protocols wide circulation in his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent.” Upton Sinclair’s The Flivver King, a pro-labor as opposed to a far-right publication, also lays almost the entire blame on Brasol. Sinclair wrote that Ford believed that there was something wrong with the world, that some kind of evil force was at work, and Brasol got past Ford’s gate-keepers to provide the “answer.” These were the two references on which I based my conclusion that Ford was a victim of fake news.
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