Footnote 3 – Against the Tide: An Interview with Maverick Scholar Cyrus Gordon

In 1894 Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, was convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island. His conviction was motivated by anti-Semitism, which was then rampant in the French military. Ultimately it was shown that Dreyfus’s conviction was based on forged documents. In 1906 a French court exonerated him, and he was reinstated in the army.