From Was G. K. Chesterton anti-Semitic?
from Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man:
“…the world owes God to the Jews…[T]hrough all their wanderings… they did indeed carry the fate of the world in that wooden tabernacle…The more we really understand of the ancient conditions that contributed to the final culture of the Faith, the more we shall have a real and even a realistic reverence for the greatness of the Prophets of Israel. [W]hile the whole world melted into this mass of confused mythology, this Deity who is called tribal and narrow, precisely because he was what is called tribal and narrow, preserved the primary religion of all mankind. He was tribal enough to be universal. He was as narrow as the universe…”
That's some anti-semite there...
Many folks confuse GK with his (VERY) racist and anti-semitic cousin AK Chesterton.