skygiants

... no, he was anti-Semitic.

My house is a decayed house,/ and the jew squats on the window sill, the owner,/Spawned in some estaminet of Antwerp,/Blistered in Brussels, patched and peeled in London.

The rats are underneath the piles./The jew is underneath the lot.

In a series of lectures given at the University of Virginia in 1933 and later published under the title "After Strange Gods" (1934), Eliot said, regarding a homogeneity of culture (and implying a traditional Christian community), "What is still more important is unity of religious background, and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable."[51] The philosopher George Boas, who had previously been on friendly terms with Eliot, wrote to him that, "I can at least rid you of the company of one." Eliot did not reply. In later years Eliot disavowed the book, and refused to allow any part to be reprinted.

He was friends with some Jews. So was Dorothy Sayers. That doesn't mean I don't flip my shit when finding her casually toss off lines about how her characters shouldn't ever hang out with Jews or "what this country needs is a Hitler."