Click over to this web site which is titled, Jews in Government, and note as you read that the list does not include state, county or municipal offices; neither does it count federal departments, high-level staffers and advisers, or judges on lower courts.
Jews in the Federal Government
It breaks down this way: jews make up 6% of the House of Representatives, 11% of the Senate, and 22% of the Supreme Court. (The link actually contains two errors, Senator Feinstein is from California and Senator Kohl is from Wisconsin.)
To put this in perspective, Jews constitute approximately 2% of the US population. Jews are, thus, statistically speaking, three times overrepresented in the House, five times overrepresented in the Senate and more than ten times overrepresented in the Supreme Court.
Jews also head three of the most important Federal posts — Ben Bernanke is Chairman of the Fed, Michael Chertoff is head of Homeland Security, Michael Mukasey is Attorney General.
Jews in the Ivy League
In education, jews currently hold three of the presidencies of the eight Ivy League Schools;
Cornell: David Jan Skorton
University of Pennsylvania: Amy Gutmann
Yale: Richard C. Levin
[In addition, half of the presidents are currently women:
Brown: Ruth Simmons (black woman)
Harvard: Drew Gilpin Faust
Princeton: Shirley Tilghman
University of Pennsylvania: Amy Gutmann
This means that three fourths of the current presidents of Ivy League schools are either Jewish or women or both.]
If we go back fifteen years, we discover several other jews who have headed Ivy League schools:
Columbia: Michael Ira Sovern (1980–1993)
Cornell: Jeffrey Lehman (2003-2005)
Dartmouth: James Oliver Freedman (1987-1998)
Harvard: Lawrence Summers (2001-2006), Neil Rudenstine (1991-2001)
Princeton: Harvey Shapiro (1988-2001)
University of Pennsylvania: Judith Seitz Rodin (1994-2004)
Thus in the last 15 years there have been ten Jewish presidents of Ivy League schools. To put this into perspective, there have been 19 presidents of these institutions during the time period (not counting interim presidents). This means that in the last 15 years 50% of Ivy League presidents have been jews.
Jews in the Media
If these percentages seem high, you are wrong. At least, that is, if you compare it to the Jewish make-up of the various media. Jews run every major Hollywood studio, they own most major newspapers, they control the three major news magazines (Time, Newsweek, US News), and over the past thirty years, most CEO’s and news editors of ABC, NBC, and CBS have been Jewish.
To add insult to injury, even Editor-in-Chief of “Christian” World Magazine is Jewish.
Are Jews smarter than the goyim?
What accounts for these statistical anomalies? Perhaps jews are smarter than whites. This is what Bell Curve authors Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray argue. But even if IQ scores are, by themselves, reliable guides to intelligence, do a few points really account for this large overrepresentation? (On the subject of IQ’s, in IQ and the Wealth of Nations, Richard Lynn reports that though the IQ of Ashkenazi jews is high, the average IQ of Israeli Sephardic jews is 91.)
And what empirical evidence do we have that jews are smarter? IQ scores are only meaningful when combined with other factors. If we use history as a guide, the jews’ contribution to science, art, philosophy, music, political theory, and medicine has been negligible. In fact, jews have contributed almost nothing to western civilization from ancient times down to the 19th Century. And even in the past two centuries the Jewish influence on the west has been, at best, a mixed bag. Yes, there is Einstein, but think also of Freud, Marx and Schönberg.
In the most objective areas, such as logic and mathematics, there are few, if any, jews among the greats. Think of Frege, Russell, Ramsey, Gödel, Gauss, Hilbert, Peano, and Cantor. All Gentiles. In physics, while there is some Jewish representation if you count Bohr (Jewish mother) or Born (Lutheran with Jewish ancestry) or Pauli (Roman Catholic with Jewish ancestry), the vast majority have been Gentiles: Faraday, Rutherford, Lorentz, Boltzmann, Planck, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Dirac, de Broglie, Fermi.
High IQ’s or not, the reports of Jewish genius seem to be greatly exaggerated. So if it is not intelligence, what accounts for the statistical imbalances documented above?
While you ponder this, ponder also the fruit of the federal government, the universities, and the media over the last few decades. Do you think there may be a connection between the steep decline of all three institutions and their increasingly Jewish composition?
Coda
There is one area where jews are statistically underrepresented: the military. To take just one example, in the Vietnam War out of the 58,193 casualties (deaths) on the US side, 269 were jews, representing just 0.46% of the total.
For comparison, take Presbyterian casualties. The 1303 Presbyterians who died in Vietnam constituted 2.2% of the total casualties. There were more than four times as many Presbyterian casualties as Jewish even though there were approximately 4 million Presbyterians in the US during the Vietnam era (according to a PCUSA statistician) compared to 5.8 million jews. So while Presbyterian casualties (2.2% of total) were almost exactly proportional to the percentage of Presbyterians in the US (2%), Jewish casualties were not (0.46% of casualties compared to 2.9% of US population).
Put another way, Presbyterians were six times, per capita, more likely to be killed in Vietnam than jews. And if we consider other denominations such as Baptists, the discrepancies are even larger.
What accounts for this? Perhaps jews make better soldiers than Presbyterians and so, though serving in proportional numbers to their population, they were much more difficult for the Viet Cong or People’s Army of Vietnam to kill. (See here for an account of three remarkable Jewish soldiers.) Or perhaps there is another reason. Once more, I will leave this for the reader to ponder.
Surely no mention of 20th century geniuses in mathematics and logic is complete without mention of John von Neumann and Paul Erdos both of whom were Hungarian Jews.
If Jews are reasonably intelligent, this intelligence is unfitting with their ostensible incompetence suggested in the decline of the three institutions which they disproportionately lead/control. Shall we say that they are not reasonably intelligent? While this would dismiss them as responsible for the decline, it would not explain how they got the positions of leadership in the first place; that takes cleverness.
This is the Jewish dilemma: either we say they are not intelligent and competent enough to strengthen the said institutions, which would render us “anti-semites”, and not explain their amazing capture of authority; or we say they are intelligent which explains how they got authority, but leaving them responsible for the decline of the agencies. The only way out of this problem is to suggest that that a little more is true to the stereotype that Jews are cunning . Jews as cunning , 1) escapes the intelligent/unintelligent category, 2) explains how they seized authority while being a 2% minority, 3) allows for (if not suggests) an intentional strategy behind the decline of the said institutions.
Number 3 is not too extreme: a) it explains why the Jew is still prospering during this decline and why the non-jew is suffering (i.e. Gentiles, not Jews, are dying in a war fought for Israel; the decadence of the media is clearly targeted at white gentiles; how the Jewish holocaust takes precedent as “THE holocaust” over other more horrific holocausts in (real) history); and, b) it is entirely consistent with the gentile-hating instruction, and trickery promoted by their Talmud. Some of former FW has traced here.
While the reader is pondering MRB’s good questions, he may also feel free to explore point (a) above. That is, what are some other areas we can see the Jew prospering during this decline, while the non-Jew is not?
Great post, MRB
David -
Maybe von Neumann. But if you include him, you must also add Euler, Boole, Riemann, Dedekind, Peirce, Zermelo, Lewis, Turing and Church.
I would not add Erdos. Though brilliant, his contributions do not match up to others on the list.
Newton, Fourier, Laplace, Leibnitz, Cauchy.
Poincare, Galois, Hamilton, Lagrange, Hardy, Ramanujan…
Actually, I think that in logic and in physics, Alfred Tarski and Richard Feynmann would both be stronger candidates for inclusion than both von Neumann and Erdos.
What is interesting, is that today’s two greatest prizes in mathematics, the Fields medal and the Wolf prize, have been won by Jews 25% and 40% of the time respectively.
David -
Winning a brass medal and being one of the “greats” are two different things. The list I offered concerns the latter category.
Deans of the Top 10 Law Schools
1. Yale
Harold Koh (oriental)
2. Stanford
Larry Kramer (jew)
3. Harvard
Elena Kagan (jewess)
4. Columbia
David Schizer (jew)
5. NYU
Richard Revesz (jew)
6. Chicago
Saul Levmore (jew)
7. Berkeley (Boalt Hall)
Chris Edley (negro)
8. Michigan
Evan Caminker (jew)
9. U Penn
Michael Fitts (aryan)
10. U Va.
John Jeffreys (aryan)
(Research done by Mark Faust, with my compliments.)
Thus, two of the Deans of the top ten law schools are Aryans, while six are jews.
“The Jewish theory that the Goyim envy the superior ability of Jews is not borne out by the facts. Most Goyim, in fact, deny that the Jew is superior, and point in evidence to his failure to take the first prizes: he has to be content with the seconds.
“No Jewish composer has ever come within miles of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms; no Jew has ever challenged the top-flight painters of the world and no Jewish scientist has ever equaled Newton, Darwin, Pasteur or Mendel. . .
“But whether this inferiority of the Jew is real or only a delusion, it must be manifest that it is generally accepted. The Goy does not, in fact, believe that the Jew is better than the non-Jew; the most he will admit is that the Jew is smarter at achieving worldly success. But this he ascribes to sharp practices, not to superior abilities.”
H. L. Mencken
Although there are two official jews on the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia is the unofficial third. Scalia just appointed two Orthodox heebs to his staff for the reason that “people who had a talmudic training [have] a head start.”
What was that? How can the study of the jewish book of fables and sophistry prepare anybody whose job is to interpret the US Constitution? This would be like appointing a Sufi mystic for the exegesis and hermeneutics post at Westminster Theological Seminary. (The old Westminster, that is.)
Expertise in the Talmud is, of course, of no use unless one wishes to undermine the Constitution.
Scalia may be just a fool who does not no better, but maybe not. I don’t know.
According to Michael Hoffman, Scalia along with his kosher pal, Nathan Lewin, “have been attempting to establish a yeshiva (Talmud school) for US judges.”
Alan Dershowitz spews out his usual nonsense. Jimmy Carter is “such an anti-jew,” he is disgusted that presidential contenders talk about Jesus (so I am, but for very different reasons), and Thomas Jefferson is rolling in his grave over what America has become (he is, but precisely because jews like Dershowitz epitomize what it has become).
For those who have not realized how much jews are our enemies, perhaps this short video will give some food for thought.
And while you are watching be sure to take note of the advertisement. It is for kabbalistic jewelry which jews wear as talismans.
How does that vid show that jews are our enemy and more than Mormons are our enemy? Romney said the same thing. Every polititian from all religous spheres spew the same “religon is private,” and “jews are our friends” garbage.
Seems to me the only thing the video raises is the scary awareness that a anti-goyim kike is teaching American lawyers.
Continuing the lists of jews by category, don’t let’s neglect the category of spies against the US, which however does not include the new entry Ben Ami Kadesh from this week’s news.
Although I doubt it will convince you of anything, I think it necessary to correct some of the more outrageous claims you make about Jewish contributions to our society. For the record, I do not believe Jews to possess superior intelligence.
In mathematics, as one poster already noted, Jews constitute 25% of Fields Medalists and nearly 40% of Wolf Prize Medalists. Among Jewish mathematicians, to name a few, are such giants as Cantor, Erdos, Grothendieck, Hausdorff, Jacobi, Lipschitz, Weil and Mandelbrot.
Among the Jewish physicists are Einsten, Bohr, Born, Pauli, Feynman, Oppenheimer, von Neumann, Rabi, Michelson, Bethe, Hertz, Wigner, Witten and Jacobi (this list could go on for pages). In particular, Jewish physicists were instrumental in developing every branch of modern physics. Jews have also received over 25% of the Nobel Prizes in physics.
Jews are similarly well-represented among Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry (19% of the total), Economics (41%) and Medicine (28%), and among recipients of the US National Medal of Science (38%).
As for the humanities, 42% of the 50 most frequently cited works in the arts and humanities were written by Jewish authors. Jews received 13% of the Nobel Prizes in Literature. Let us not forget as well that The Bible was written by Jewish authors.
Jews have also contributed many important inventions. Here’s a very short list of some of the more important ones from across various fields: the ballpoint pen; the Polaroid; the LASER; videotape; the telephone; the defibrillator; the cardiac pacemaker; anti-Leukemia drugs; the Polio vaccine; optical fiber; solar cells; the electron microscope; the fission power plant; atomic weapons and thermonuclear weapons.
Finally, regarding your comment on the patriotism of Jews, you should know that during World War II, over 500,000 Jews served, nearly 40,000 died, and 26,000 received citations for valor. The low casualty rate during Vietnam probably has to do with the rates of Jewish enrollment in universities.
When stripped of strained and inconsequential statistics and a list or two of non-Jewish “greats” (and Cantor), all that remains of your post are bald claims, meaningless or false conclusions, and petty antisemitism. A thin gruel indeed! And it is certainly not enough to support any of your stronger claims. I cannot fathom why you hate Jews. Irrational, blind hate is an incredibly destructive force. A little soul-searching may be in order.
Matt
Matt -
I already dealt with mathematics and physics. Mutatis mutandis for the other fields. My criterion was not who has the most ribbons and baubles. Indeed, one could make a case that those who win the silly prizes could almost certainly not be great. Very few of the greats are recognized by their contemporaries.
The business about 42% citations in humanities shows how irrelevant raw statistical data is (“are” for the schoolmarms). Name just one jewish writer of the caliber Milton, Goethe, Dante, Virgil, Pound, or Eliot. As you say, I could go on.
Though I have nothing against inventors, techne is not something I would cite as evidence of greatness. (Though the ballpoint pen is quite useful; Ann Frank used one to compose her famous diary.)
No one doubts the valor of jewish warriors. I have even written a post celebrating their military prowess.
Statistic mongering aside, I suggest you reread my post, especially under the heading “are jews smarter than the goyim?” From your remarks, it appears you do not understand my argument.
Yes, soul-searching is always worthwhile and I am ready to confess my besetting sins. But “antisemitism” is not one of them. For one, the term itself is ambiguous and your accusation trades on this ambiguity. See my colleague’s post on this tired word.
For another, I do not hate jews per se. I do count Christ’s enemies as my own and jews are Christ’s enemies. But even if I were filled with hatred toward jews, it would not be irrational and certainly not blind.
Finally, I do not cower over the thought of being labeled “antisemetic.” If one is recalcitrant and insists on using the canard then all I can say is, “that’s Mr. Antisemite to you.”
Though you are skeptical about my being open to arguments, I have better hope for you. Consider all the fathers of our religion who have spoken against jews in even stronger terms than I. Consider that jews have been expelled from every European nation at one time or another. Prime facie this should cause us to pause and consider why they have taken such a strong line against jews. And at a minimum, it should make us wary of glibly throwing around the antisemitism charge.
… Your notion of “the greats” is not entirely coherent. In fact, in physics and mathematics, most of the “greats” were indeed recognized by their contemporaries, and received all sorts of ribbons and medals. You would be hard-pressed to find many of greats not well-regarded during their lifetimes (Cantor would be one).
For the sake of argument, define being “great” as being among the 100 greatest. Any listing of the greatest 100 physicists would certainly include Einstein, Bohr, Feynman, and von Neumann. A list of the 100 greatest mathematicians would include Grothendieck, Schwartz and Weil. Thus, at least in mathematics and physics, Jews are present in proportion to their population among the greats.
I only noted the inventors to rebut your claim that Jews contributed nothing to our society.
I am sad that what seems like a first-rate mind is wasted on your views. For now I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. All the best,
Matt
I have a slightly different angle on this subject. Let it be that not just many, but all the inventors and mathematicians were of the hebishkeit. Fine; now will you all just go home to Israel please, and not come back? Take the spies, enslaving “financiers,” blaspheming movie-makers, tendentious news-casters, and corrupting judges and lawyers, and you can also have all those geniuses.
Despite exceptions here and there, overall, the infiltrated hebishkeitsreich is simply unhealthy for goy nations. We’ll buy your ball point pens from afar.
Matt,
Lists get tedious, but Frege was not recognized during his life time except by other greats (Russell and Wittgenstein).
You still are not reading my post carefully. Here is what I wrote: “. . . jews have contributed almost nothing to western civilization from ancient times down to the 19th Century. And even in the past two centuries the Jewish influence on the west has been, at best, a mixed bag. Yes, there is Einstein, but think also of Freud, Marx and Schönberg.”
Even with this, the whole business about jewish brain power was not the point of my post. Jews are over overrepresented in most professions. That is a fact. The question is, why? I don’t believe it is because they are smarter or even that they are more ambitious than other races. The Chinese are just as ambitious and yet they do not dominate the fields they enter into. Something else is at play. I am asking my readers to try to answer this question. Once this is answered correctly, much light will be thrown on the jewish problem.
We probably would agree on a number of issues. We disagree on this one. The simple fact that we differ here does not constitute proof that I am wasting my time let alone my mind. The US is currently fighting two unjust wars for Israel and is threatening a third. The jewish question, just on the basis of this alone, is an important one to explore.
Tim,
Su ángulo es mi ángulo. But there are several angles one needs to approach the jews.
MRB,
You may not be aware that:
1- Jesus was Jewish from the day he was born and circumcised (that’s what the New Year is by the way!) to the day he died. He never rejected His faith or any belief and by claiming to be the Son of God he used the old Aramaic words that Jews have used for millennia that all men are the children of God.
2-Jews may have the very same abilities as everybody else, some are geniuses and some are morons.
3-there are a number of Jews in the government and institutions because nobody else wants to work in a system that has been falling apart for decades. They may be able to help but I doubt it, as much as I doubt anybody else could.
4-Last I checked Obama, Clinton and McCain were not even part Jewish.
5-Regardless of the number of Jews in Congress, they have been elected by a majority of constituents. This can be changed any time but they may be doing well enough that they get re-elected. That is not my opinion but in a democracy people can use a ballot to express their opinion.
6-Sending the Jews “back” to Israel makes even less sense than sending you back to Ireland (just pretending your family came from ireland, replace by another country that fits). 99% of American Jews did not come from Israel, most Americans (Jews and non-Jews alike) came from Europe.
7-I know I am wasting my time but I wanted you to think twice before selecting a group of people for discrimination. Try your studies on Italian Americans you may be surprised at the findings, what would that prove, NOTHING. Jews are people like everybody else, some deal drugs while others save lives
“You may not be aware…” — ha. You Guys kill me.
The line I like best is the thought that we are “selecting a group of people for discrimination.” Exactly. We just woke up one day and said, “let’s select a group of people for discrimination.”
LETS SEE HERE PROSPERITY AT OTHERS EXPENSE MANY OF YOU DON’T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETTWEEN A SAMARITAN AND A JEW. SAMARITANS SUPPOSEDLY WERE JEWS MIXED WITH BABYLONIANS AFTER THE CAPTIVITY. SAMARIA ALWAYS EXSISTED. GIVE YOU AND EXAMPLE TAKE OH PRINCE CHARLES OF ENGLAND HE WOULD BE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHAT A SAMARITAN LOOKS LIKE. THE OTHER WOULD BE PRINCE WILLIAM. ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A SAMARITAN WOULD BE OH Matthew Broderick OR Ben Stein. IF YOU CAN’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETTWEEN A JEW OR A SAMARITAN HOW ARE YOU GOING TO TELL WHO’S TAKING THE MONEY? FORTUNES STOLEN ONES TAX THEFT ISN’T PROSPERITY. GERMANY WENT TO WAR TWICE. FIGHT WITH REALITIVES? SO WHO AM I? A JUTE THAT KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETTWEEN A JEW AND A SAMARITIAN.
Charles — as I said elsewhere, neither your name nor tone sounds very hebish to me. But at any rate… I don’t think the diff bet. Israel and Judah in the post-Solomonic division is very significant in this discussion, nor even jew and samaritan. The hebishkeit has become its own race, including admixture if not domination of the Khazars, but regardless of the family lineage, the danger that it poses to Christendom is not in the first place racial. Their (your?) racial presence is indeed harmful, chiefly because coupled with exploitative attitudes justified by the Talmudic religion, which is the primary cause of what makes the hebishkeitsreich so dangerous.
See my reply in the night and fog. I only reply to Christs. I have nothing to do with the devil
Charles — there is only one Christ, and to him your knee must bend. We will pray for you.
Charles,
Your comments and responses indicate that you have already replied to the one you say you won’t reply to. “Tim, regarding your post, here are my thoughts… And, oh yeah, I want you to know that I’m forbidden to talk to you. Okay?”
Joshua — More precisely the conversation goes like this:
Charles: The key to everything is to tell the difference between a Samaritan and a Jew. I can tell the difference just by looking.
Tim: I’m skeptical that this distinction is important today.
Charles: Then you are of the devil!
Truth is the truth. Yessuah spoke of you are of your father the devil. Either its true or not. People that know the holucoust is ba. They are of the truth. I won’t banter with you. I know from the truth who and what you are simple. Don’t bother
uh… ok, Charles. I can’t tell a samaritan from a jew by looking; therefore, I am of the devil. Thanks for the clarification. That’s really “ba”.
I think I see another problem. Ham was to serve in the tents of Seth. This was the decree when Ham tried to see Noah naked. Some don’t like serving. However its a decree. So you would be as Ham in service to me (a decendent of Seth). This means you are a servant to me. Now this may not be liked. But you are however a servant and always will be. You will even serve Issachar who is the least of the brothers. Good or bad you still have to be a servant. One may try to obscure history and put this as oppression. However this is the decree of the word. Not the same as the Holocoust. So one might say oh this group is oppressed and kept down. When in fact they have Men that they serve. That would be Seth (Jews) Good or bad. So a servant has to obey or pay the penalty and well the disobiedent are turned over to the devil. Must avoid this. Many of Ham know this and serve. Some rebel.
Well Charles, I take back one of my earlier comments — you are indeed a jew.
(BTW I am descended from Japheth. Not that your exegesis re Ham has any validity that real exegetes would take seriously.)
(All three of Noah’s sons are descended from Seth, by the way.)
Yeah ok no problem
So what exactly is the biblical basis for your dislike of Jews?
Come on Keith?
Are you serious?
What is the Biblical basis for dislike of mustard?
And please define what you mean by “Jew”—is it someone of the Jewish race (Abraham’s seed) or is someone alive today who adheres to Judaism?
Gal 3:29 And if you be Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Jews are people that “jew” you outta money and want their daughters to marry doctors that overprescribe harmful SSRI’s and unscrupulous lawyers. People that hairsplit about the color of the sky and what a Jew is are reasonable assumed to be Jewish as well.
Jews send money to the ADL.
Jews live in Israel and practice Judaism or had mothers who did, or grandmothers, or great-grandmothers who did.
Jews run Hollywood.
Jews were put in concentration camps in Germany.
should read: “reasonably assumed to be Jewish as well.”
Keith — MB is inundated with a major move and prep for a conference, so I’ll take a stab at your serious question #32 to fill the gap until he returns.
I’m thinking, Hezekiah 3:23: “Thou shalt dislike French opera, jews, and caviar.”
Tim, it is apparent that you and Daniel are mocking me… that would suggest that the answer to my question is obvious. Well, pardon me for being on a lower intellectual level than you, but no, I don’t know what biblical basis you have for disliking Jews. I’m still awaiting a meaningful response. Thanks.
Keith — not mocking; it’s just that you’ve been hanging around here long enough that you should be able to frame tighter and more relevant questions by now. The point is, “liking” is neither here nor there. Liking is a subjective matter of taste, and it is silly to ask for biblical warrant for it.
The thesis about the jewish infiltration could be accepted by someone that “likes” jews as individuals, or rejected by someone that yet dislikes jews. Most humans will have a likeability mode that is flexible and contingent, liking some jews, and disliking others, just as with any other persons. Meanwhile, the considerations of the post are what they are — true or false, valid or invalid.
So, if you have a question about the post, then identify the particular premise or step in the argument and focus your question. If you are interacting with a comment, identify the # of it and the issue.
it’s just that you’ve been hanging around here long enough that you should be able to frame tighter and more relevant questions by now.
Nice try Tim, but ever since your blog devolved to a bizarre fixation on stupid topics (IMHO) I stopped reading regularly. Maybe you should go back to reviewing seasons of Sex and City? Pretty deep stuff.
“liking” is neither here nor there. … The thesis about the jewish infiltration could be accepted by someone that “likes” jews as individuals, or rejected by someone that yet dislikes jews.
Good job, Tim. Now you can explain to me your biblical basis for disliking Jews. If your dislike is rooted in the “Jewish infiltration” (horror of horrors!) then all you need to do is explain from scripture why the “Jewish infiltration” should be opposed. Pretty complex, I know.
(Don’t mind my sarcasm, Tim. I’m sure you can take a little bit of what you give. No hard feelings.)
Keith -
I don’t think your question is the right one. Perhaps I do dislike most jews, what does this have to do with this post? At best it may give you a possible motive for writing it, but little more. Lewis called this Bulverism.
A better question is, why are jews so disliked? Try to think of any group that is so generally distrusted and even despised. Why is this? The answer most often given is that people are prejudiced and hate-filled. But this is no answer at all since prejudice and hate can be directed to anybody. The question is, why jews?
Another answer is that they are a special people and others are jealous of them. Or, similarly, since the jew is good and the Gentile bad, one should expect hatred from the Gentile towards the jew. The jews believe this about themselves of course, but so do the Fundies, by and large, although for different reasons. The former hold to a racial supremacist theology derived from the Talmud, the later from a perverse misreading of Scripture. Since both are false, this cannot be why jews are generally disliked. (Though that the jews believe this about themselves and act accordingly may provide the primary basis of why they are a “persecuted” people.)
The real answer can be found through reading all the post under the subcategory “judaica.” Start with the one above. What is the basic point I am making? Then as you read the other posts start making a list of their major theses. At the end you will find a compelling case as to why jews are disliked.
As for why “jewish infiltration” is bad, just switch jewish with Muslim or animism or feminism or sadism and you will have the answer.
I hope to write a post on the New Testament’s view of the jew. I’ll try to do it soon, but no promises.
Thanks for the response. I have read this post and several others. The only posts under “Judaica” that deal with theology are refutations of dispensationalism more than anything else. Interesting stuff, but nevertheless I anxiously await this question of, “Why does Michael Butler dislike the Jews?” Indeed, that is the question I am asking. I can come up with great reasons for why unbelievers in general dislike Jews (worldly reasons, of course)—but you are not an unbeliever, which is why I asked why *you* dislike Jews.
I am aware of the NT’s view of a certain type of Jew, of course, but that is why your dislike of the Jews is so confusing—you really makes no distinction between Messianic Jews, orthodox Jews, secular Jews, Jesus, or anyone else. Instead I read the same dull conspiracy-laced language that populates the writing of any typical “anti-Semite”. So I am led to believe that you dislike Jews for the same baseless reasons as the world.
Another jaw-dropping story about the jew in America that was never taught to us in government schools is the story about the founding of the ADL. It ties many threads together — the resurgence of the second KKK, the start of “anti-Semitism” in the South, even characters that played a role in the entry of the US into WWI. I hope to research this material further and post on it, but in the meantime, listen to the amazing story as described in this podcast by Alex Linder.
I want again to urge readers to listen to the Alex Linder lecture on the Leo Frank/Mary Phagan case linked to in #44 (it starts around the 20′ mark). It will make your hair stand out on end, and the more I think about it, the more I think it is one of the most important stories of the 20th century. Naturally, there are some points Alex makes that we cannot go along with, such as that the Exodus never took place; though given his theological standpoint, the mistakes are very understandable. But focus especially on the narrative from the E. Michael Jones article.
Remember, when monetary figures are used, multiply by about 30 to convert to today’s value. Thus, $20,000 for example, would be like $600,000 today.
At the end, you should be able to identify each of the following names or phrases. Re-listen until you can. This is a serious matter and we will have more to say in the future…
Mary Phagan
Leo Frank
Jim Conley
The Georgian
The Journal
The Constitution
The Jeffersonian
NY Times
William Randolph Hearst
Hugh Dorsey
John Marshall Slaton
Judge L.S. Roan
Louis B. Marshall
David Marx
Adolph Ochs
Jacob Schiff
Temple Emmanuel
Albert Lasker
William J. Burns
Luther Z. Rosser
“The Truth is on the March”
Tom Watson
Christopher Powell Connolly of Butte, Montana
“kill the jew or we’ll kill you”
Thanks for the link, TJH. Very meaningful case study.
Linder’s most significant line: “Jews back their own when he is a criminal. Whites won’t even back their own when he’s not a criminal. Big problem.”
Most insigtful line: “Jews are the only people that need to control the media.” …
Neo-con Steve Hays over at Triablogue has attacked MRB for his “anti-semitism”:
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/10/jew-haters-by-numbers.html
This is why the mission seems unreachable. Hays seems more than eager to see to it that a brother gets defrocked for teaching on a subject which Hays knows nothing about. We need not worry about our enemies when we have friends like Hays.
MRB, don’t dignify his utter ignorance by replying at his site. David has given him enough to chew on for a while.
Besides, pc-types like him are not beyond banning your best arguments when they are out of bounds (in violatation of pc. The more you argue for X, the more of a wacky, conspiracy theorist, racist, anti-semite you will be. Evidence for X is the same as X itself: forbidden. Arguments will never be germane for liberals like Hays.
Well, as the “sidekick,” I would step in counter the arguments, which we covet, except that… there are no arguments. The “dialogue” with our “philosopher” goes something like this:
Us: There is a massive amount of evidence suggesting that it is very dangerous to goy nations to allow jews to get control of the media and law schools.
Hays: That’s just anti-Semitic raving!
Us: In fact, the very term “anti-Semitic” contains an ambiguity that is generally exploited by the users of it to deflect attention away from the (either racial or religious as the case may be) issue at hand.
Hays: That’s just anti-Semitic raving!
You know what?
Steve Hays doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Mr. TJH, you and Mr. MRB have really affected my life with this blog and I hope you guys never stop writing.
You make it cool to be intellectual. That’s something Steve Hays doesn’t have enough style to pull off.
“Mr. TJH, you and Mr. MRB have really affected my life with this blog and I hope you guys never stop writing.”
Ditto.
Josh and Scott -
Thank you for your kind words.
Assuming Josh is correct in calling this Hayes fellow a neo-con, my guess is that his hissy fit has something to do with the upcoming election.
I tried to play defense over at Triablogue but I think I just drew attention to myself.
I third the notion that neither of you stop writing. In fact, I wish you would increase the frequency at which you do so. I’m particularly interested in 200 Years Together.
As of this coming January, we are going to have to revise our numbers. There will be 32 jews in the House, constituting almost 7.5% of the Representatives. Things are even more extreme in the Senate where there will now be 13 jews in the upper house.
President Barack Hussein Obama II is making sure jews are well represented in his staff and cabinet. Rahm Israel Emanuel will be his Chief of Staff. Emanuel is the son of Benjamin Emanuel , a jewish terrorist who worked with Irgun. (Irgun was responsible for the bombing of the King David Hotel.) His father even named Rahm after a fellow terrorist, a man called Rahamim. More on Rahm later.
The other important appointment that is being discussed now is for Treasury Secretary. The leading contenders are Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, Paul Volcker. Guess what each of these men has in common.
The Old Man has a nice rundown on the current financial players. Spellings of some of the figures mentioned:
Goldman Sachs
Henry M. Paulson
Neel Kashkari
Benjamin Bernanke
jew heading House Oversight and Government Reform Committee: Henry Waxman
fag-jew heading House Financial Services Committee: Barnie Frank
There will be 45 jews in the house according to the Jerusalem Post.
Record # of Jews Elected to Congress
Sorry. You were right.
45 total!
Challenging a jew by quoting another jew proves that one is a Martian, a dining room table, or otherwise unworthy of having a voice (microphone turned off) and unworthy of human discourse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjF4YjvJLe4
I bet he’d listen to a dining room table if the table had a bag of feathers and some hot tar.
You really need to update this page to account for things like this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100510/ap_on_go_su_co/us_obama_supreme_court_13
Kagan’s profile:
http://www.nndb.com/people/295/000167791/