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Due to his adamant conservatism, Fish has been an occasional target by [[leftists]] who hurl the charge that he was supposedly anti-Semitic and sympathized with bigoted [[Nazi]] ideologies.<ref>March 8, 2010. [https://archive.md/3RdOV Newstalgia Reference Room: Hamilton Fish III - 1941]. ''Crooks and Liars'' via ''archive.md''. Retrieved October 23, 2021.</ref><ref>Hart, Bradley W. (December 21, 2018). [https://archive.md/iv0UP It started with Nazis: Concerns over foreign agents not just a Trump-era phenomenon]. ''Salon'' via ''archive.md''. Retrieved October 23, 2021.</ref> Although his career was embroiled in a number of controversies, including distributing the anti-Semitic publication [[Protocols of the Elders of Zion]] at one point, such occurrences are largely considered careless as opposed to the notion that it was evidence he was in league with virulent anti-Semites.<ref name=fascinatingpoliticsbio/>
Due to his adamant conservatism, Fish has been an occasional target by [[leftists]] who hurl the charge that he was supposedly anti-Semitic and sympathized with bigoted [[Nazi]] ideologies.<ref>March 8, 2010. [https://archive.md/3RdOV Newstalgia Reference Room: Hamilton Fish III - 1941]. ''Crooks and Liars'' via ''archive.md''. Retrieved October 23, 2021.</ref><ref>Hart, Bradley W. (December 21, 2018). [https://archive.md/iv0UP It started with Nazis: Concerns over foreign agents not just a Trump-era phenomenon]. ''Salon'' via ''archive.md''. Retrieved October 23, 2021.</ref> Although his career was embroiled in a number of controversies, including distributing the anti-Semitic publication [[Protocols of the Elders of Zion]] at one point, such occurrences are largely considered careless as opposed to the notion that it was evidence he was in league with virulent anti-Semites.<ref name=fascinatingpoliticsbio/>
Despite the "anti-Semitic" charge, Fish was an early opponent of Nazi Germany, spearheading an effort in late May 1933 to formally oppose Nazi persecutions of Jews.<ref>Gurock, Jeffrey. [https://books.google.com/books?id=tc9cAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&dq=%22hamilton+fish%22+jews+germany&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LWRQU5yhCszJsQS1gYGQAg&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22hamilton%20fish%22%20jews%20germany&f=false America, American Jews, and the Holocaust: American Jewish History]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved October 23, 2021.</ref>
Despite the "anti-Semitic" charge, Fish was an early opponent of Nazi Germany, spearheading an effort in late May 1933 to formally oppose Nazi persecutions of Jews.<ref>Gurock, Jeffrey. [https://books.google.com/books?id=tc9cAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&dq=%22hamilton+fish%22+jews+germany&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LWRQU5yhCszJsQS1gYGQAg&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22hamilton%20fish%22%20jews%20germany&f=false America, American Jews, and the Holocaust: American Jewish History]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved October 23, 2021.</ref> He had also decried 1930 order by Britain prohibiting Jews from immigrating to their homeland, stating at the time:<ref>June 18, 1930. [https://www.jta.org/archive/congressman-hamilton-fish-in-house-speech-protests-stoppage-of-immigration Congressman Hamilton Fish in House Speech Protests Stoppage of Immigration]. ''Jewish Telegraphic Agency''. Retrieved October 23, 2021.</ref>
{{cquote|Our Jewish citizens have poured tens of millions of dollars into the country for the purpose of upbuilding it. They have made great sacrifices so that there could be laid a basis for a new center of Jewish civilization, and so that tens of thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe, suffering from economic destitution and political and religious discrimination, might find a haven.
The attitude taken by the British Government threatens the work that has been done in Palestine by the Jews of the world in the past decade. There has been laid down the principle that Jewish immigration into Palestine should be governed by the economic capacity of the country. That principle is now being violated by Great Britain. To hinder the entrance of Jews into Palestine for any other reason is to make mockery of the Jewish National Home; it is to betray the trust that has been placed in Britain by the civilized countries of the world. It is finally to nullify the agreement that has been entered into between Great Britain and our government.}}
==Later life==
==Later life==