In the academic world, self-promotion was considered a sin. Knowing Einstein’s humility, modesty, and contempt for anything “philistine,” his friends and colleagues did not think he sought publicity. But they cautioned him: jealousy would turn to resentment. Indeed, as an anti-war citizen of the world, and star-scientist raved by the British, and worst of all, as a Jew, Einstein became a hate target of Germany’s right-wing nationalists and anti-Semitists. While the relativity frenzy following the total solar eclipse observation was surging, an organization called “Study Group of German Natural Philosophy” was formed, with only one sinister goal—to discredit the theory of relativity and to destroy the reputation of Einstein. The ringleader of this Anti-Relativity Company, as Einstein called it, was Weyland, a pseudo-intellectual and self-proclaimed polemicist with political ambitions. The godfather of the Company was Einstein’s antagonist Lenard. Despite his earlier profuse praise of Einstein’s theoretical work on photoelectricity, calling him “a thinker of depth,” now Lenard openly criticized and denounced the theory of relativity. As a German nationalist, he was upset by the enemy the UK’s championing of Jew Einstein who had renounced the citizenship of his Fatherland. Lenard disdained the “fanfare of relativity.” He and his followers alleged that people’s interest and enthusiasm for relativity was flared up by the Jewish-controlled news media (Fig. 9.1).