 Chesterton faced accusations of anti-Semitism during his lifetime, saying in chapter 13 of "The New Jerusalem" (1920) that it was something "for which my friends and I were for a long period rebuked and even reviled".Despite his prostestations to the contrary, the accusation continues to be repeated.An early supporter of Captain Dreyfus, by 1906 he had turned into an anti-dreyfusard.