(Jewish Group) A Misunderstanding About Anti-Semitism

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Only diseases can have cures, and anti-Semitism is not a disease: It is a perfectly normal human reaction to an anomaly that has persisted for just over 2,000 years, ever since starving Jews migrated in great numbers to food-rich Roman Egypt and its splendid capital of Alexandria, where they quickly outmatched the local Greek-speaking elite not only in Greek philosophy but also in Greek athletics—and in business too, no doubt. The Greeks reacted not by competing harder, but with murderous mob attacks. Thus, anti-Semitism was born, already so fully formed that nothing has been added by all the anti-Semites in history ever since. That the Jewish side of the story is well known through texts by Josephus and Philo, while the original denunciation of the Jews by then-famous philosopher Apion is lost (except for the bits quoted by Josephus as put-downs), proves just how right Apion was: Primitive Hebrew shepherds and peasants arrive, and in no time at all they take over everything, even Greek philosophic literature, in which Philo now occupies 10 volumes in the Harvard’s Loeb Classical Library and Apion has none, zilch, and nada. (Loeb was a Jewish banker, of course.)

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Exclusion from the most desirable careers was certainly frustrating for the individuals involved, but it did serve to contain anti-Semitism in the United States until the 1980s at least, by limiting gentile envy and resentment. It was bad enough that the Jews could not be kept out of a spectacularly unfair share of all Nobel prizes won by Americans (or Russians, or the French, or the German-born)—just think what that meant for aspiring young gentile scientists who would know from the start that the odds of making it to the Stockholm gala prize night were so badly skewed against them. Nor was there a remedy for Jewish ascendancy in Hollywood—poor old Marlon Brando was savaged for daring to mention it. Mel Gibson’s impunity is actually extremely significant in spite of the triviality of the person, because it is one of the markers of the new post-anti-anti-Semitic age, in which attacking Jews for being Jewish is increasingly acceptable once again. (That nobody asks Indian Americans to denounce Modi, or Turkish Americans to denounce Erdogan, while ritual denunciations of Netanyahu are demanded—and too often obtained—from countless political Jews is quite enough to dispose of the Israel excuse.)

What went wrong? First Wall Street: Instead of the exclusion that worked so well, with “white shoe” gentile bond salesmen running the show in between drinking bouts and ,Jews confined to grubby retail brokerages, there was a wholesale takeover by the financiers who invented new ways of doing business, starting with leveraged buyouts. They were all Jews or near enough, members of “The Lucky Sperm Club” as cited in the PBS News Hour segment on “Jews, M&A and the Unlocking of Corporate America.” As for the hedge-funders and private-equity guys, they too mostly belonged to that same lucky sperm club, along with George Soros—whose vehemently unwanted Jewish identity has never helped a single Jew, but is great stuff for anti-Semites.

Still, the ascendancy of the Wall Street Jews could not have revived anti-Semitism all by itself. High finance has been a Jewish business for a very long time—what with the Rothschilds and all—and even if very offensive, the Jewish takeover could not be shockingly unexpected.

But Silicon Valley really did it. Most Americans can go about their business without knowing who the billionaire Steven A. Cohen is—or who the billionaire Peter A. Cohen is, for that matter—but they cannot ignore Facebook, Google, Oracle, Intel, Dell, Qualcomm, etc., which were all founded or co-founded by Jews (the anti-defamation crowd should erect a monument to the impeccably non-Jewish Jeff Bezos).

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1. I am not sure I like the article

It reminds me a bit of philo-Asian stereotypes or my nephew who crows about the average IQ of Ashkenazi Jews being 115.

A good stereotype is still a stereotype.

That said, my kids are all observant, as are their children and their children (with a couple of exceptions). A plurality made aliyah to Israel.

And yes, we are heavy on doctors and lawyers-turned-successful business owners.

The least monetarily successful (and he makes six figures) is a veterinarian who is a Jewish Renewal guy and about 3/4 of a hippie (and the happiest of all my grandchildren, despite living in what is essentially a yurt and looking vaguely like a member of the Manson family). I think he spends most of his money on pot.

Jewish success is a curious phenomena. I think the success IS DUE to the constant looming fear of persecution.

I've always been pushed to be successful out of fear and need for options; I've always wanted money and options to get out of Dodge. One bag packed