(Most of this data is provided by those of Jewish descent
who are critical of the Zionist mentality among many Jews in America)
For decades Israel has violated well established precepts of international
law and defied numerous United Nations resolutions in its occupation of
conquered lands, in extra-judicial killings, and in its repeated acts of
military aggression.
Most of the world regards Israel's policies, and especially its oppression
of Palestinians, as outrageous and criminal. This international consensus
is reflected, for example, in numerous UN resolutions condemning Israel,
which have been approved with overwhelming majorities.
"The whole world," United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan recently
said, "is demanding that Israel withdraw [from occupied Palestinian
territories]. I don't think the whole world ... can be wrong."(1)
Only in the United States do politicians and the media still fervently
support Israel and its policies. For decades the US has provided Israel
with crucial military, diplomatic and financial backing, including more
than $3 billion each year in aid.
Why is the U.S. the only remaining bastion of support for Israel?
Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who was awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace
Prize, has candidly identified the reason: "The Israeli government is
placed on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticize it is to be immediately
dubbed anti-Semitic," he said. "People are scared in this country, to say
wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful -- very
powerful."<http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/#note02 >(2)
Bishop Tutu spoke the truth. Although Jews make up only about three
percent of the US population, they wield immense power and influence --
vastly more than any other ethnic or religious group.
As Jewish author and political science professor Benjamin Ginsberg has
pointed out: (3)
Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable influence in
American economic, cultural, intellectual and political life. Jews played
a central role in American finance during the 1980s, and they were among
the chief beneficiaries of that decade's corporate mergers and
reorganizations. Today, though barely two percent of the nation's
population is Jewish, close to half its billionaires are Jews. The chief
executive officers of the three major television networks and the four
largest film studios are Jews, as are the owners of the nation's largest
newspaper chain and the most influential single newspaper, the
New York
Times ... The role and influence of Jews in American politics is
equally marked ...
Jews are only three percent of the nation's population and comprise eleven
percent of what this study defines as the nation's elite. However, Jews
constitute more than 25 percent of the elite journalists and publishers,
more than 17 percent of the leaders of important voluntary and public
interest organizations, and more than 15 percent of the top ranking civil
servants.
Stephen Steinlight, former Director of National Affairs of the American
Jewish Committee, similarly notes the "disproportionate political power"
of Jews, which is "pound for pound the greatest of any ethnic/cultural
group in America." He goes on to explain that "Jewish economic influence
and power are disproportionately concentrated in Hollywood, television,
and in the news industry."(4)
Two well-known Jewish writers, Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab, pointed out
in their 1995 book,
Jews and the New American Scene: (5)
During the last three decades
Jews [in the United States] have made up 50 percent of the top two hundred
intellectuals ... 20 percent of professors at the leading universities ...
40 percent of partners in the leading law firms in New York and Washington
... 59 percent of the directors, writers, and producers of the 50
top-grossing motion pictures from 1965 to 1982, and 58 percent of
directors, writers, and producers in two or more primetime television
series.
The influence of American Jewry in Washington, notes the Israeli daily, Jerusalem Post, is "far disproportionate to the size of the
community, Jewish leaders and U.S. official acknowledge. But so is the
amount of money they contribute to [election] campaigns." One member of
the influential Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations "estimated Jews alone had contributed 50 percent of the
funds for [President Bill] Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign."(6)
"It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and
prominence in popular culture," acknowledges Michael Medved, a well-known
Jewish author and film critic. "Any list of the most influential
production executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a
heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names." (7)
One person who has carefully studied this subject is Jonathan J. Goldberg,
now editor of the influential Jewish community weekly Forward. In his 1996
book, Jewish Power, he wrote:(8)
In a few key sectors of the media, notably among Hollywood studio
executives, Jews are so numerically dominant that calling these businesses
Jewish-controlled is little more than a statistical observation ...
Hollywood at the end of the twentieth century is still an industry with a
pronounced ethnic tinge. Virtually all the senior executives at the major
studios are Jews. Writers, producers, and to a lesser degree directors are
disproportionately Jewish -- one recent study showed the figure as high as
59 percent among top-grossing films.
The combined weight of so many Jews in one of America's most lucrative and
important industries gives the Jews of Hollywood a great deal of political
power. They are a major source of money for Democratic candidates.
Reflecting their role in the American media, Jews are routinely portrayed
as high-minded, altruistic, trustworthy,
compassionate, and deserving of sympathy and support. While millions of
Americans readily accept such stereotyped imagery, not everyone is
impressed. "I am very angry with some of the Jews," complained actor
Marlon Brando during a 1996 interview. "They know perfectly well what
their responsibilities are ... Hollywood is run by Jews. It's owned by
Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of people
who are suffering."(9)
A Well-Entrenched Factor
The intimidating power of the "Jewish lobby" is not a new phenomenon, but
has long been an important factor in American life.
In 1941 Charles Lindbergh spoke about the danger of Jewish power in the
media and government. The shy 39-year-old -- known around the world for
his epic 1927 New York to Paris flight, the first solo trans-Atlantic
crossing -- was addressing 7,000 people in Des Moines, Iowa, on September
11, 1941, about the dangers of US involvement in the war then raging in
Europe. The three most important groups pressing America into war, he
explained, were the British, the Jews, and the Roosevelt administration.
Of the Jews, he said: "Their greatest danger to this country lies in their
large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our
radio, and our government." Lindbergh went on:
... For reasons which are
understandable from their viewpoint as they are inadvisable from ours, for
reasons which are not American, [they] wish to involve us in the war. We
cannot blame them for looking out for what they believe to be their own
interests, but we must also look out for ours. We cannot allow the natural
passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to
destruction.
In 1978, Jewish American scholar Alfred M. Lilienthal wrote in his
detailed study, The Zionist Connection: (10)
How has the Zionist will been imposed on the American people?... It is the
Jewish connection, the tribal solidarity among themselves and the amazing
pull on non-Jews, that has molded this unprecedented power ... In the
larger metropolitan areas, the Jewish-Zionist connection thoroughly
pervades affluent financial, commercial, social, entertainment, and art
circles.
As a result of the Jewish grip on the media, wrote Lilienthal, news
coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict in American television,
newspapers and magazines is relentlessly sympathetic to Israel. This is
manifest, for example, in the misleading portrayal of Palestinian
"terrorism." As Lilienthal put it: "One-sided reportage on terrorism, in
which cause is never related to effect, was assured because the most
effective component of the Jewish connection is probably that of media
control."
One-Sided 'Holocaust' History
The Jewish hold on cultural and academic life has had a profound impact on
how Americans look at the past. Nowhere is the well entrenched
Judeocentric view of history more obvious than in the "Holocaust" media
campaign, which focuses on the fate of Jews in Europe during World War II.
Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer, a professor at Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, has remarked:(11)
Whether presented
authentically or inauthentically, in accordance with the historical facts
or in contradiction to them, with empathy and understanding or as
monumental kitsch, the Holocaust has become a ruling symbol of our culture
... Hardly a month goes by without a new TV production, a new film, a new
drama, new books, prose or poetry, dealing with the subject, and the flood
is increasing rather than abating.
Non-Jewish suffering simply does not merit comparable attention.
Overshadowed in the focus on Jewish victimization are, for example, the
tens of millions of victims of America's World War II ally, Stalinist
Russia, along with the tens of millions of victims of China's Maoist
regime, as well as the 12 to 14 million Germans, victims of the flight and
expulsion of 1944-1949, of whom some two million lost their lives.
The well-financed Holocaust media and "educational" campaign is crucially
important to the interests of Israel. Paula Hyman, a professor of modern
Jewish history at Yale University, has observed: "With regard to Israel,
the Holocaust may be used to forestall political criticism and suppress
debate; it reinforces the sense of Jews as an eternally beleaguered people
who can rely for their defense only upon themselves. The invocation of the
suffering endured by the Jews under the Nazis often takes the place of
rational argument, and is expected to convince doubters of the legitimacy
of current Israeli government policy."(12)
Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish scholar who has taught political science at
City University of New York (Hunter College), says in his book, The
Holocaust Industry, that "invoking The Holocaust" is "a ploy to
delegitimize all criticism of Jews."(13) "By conferring total
blamelessness on Jews, the Holocaust dogma immunizes Israel and American
Jewry from legitimate censure ... Organized Jewry has exploited the Nazi
holocaust to deflect criticism of Israel's and its own morally
indefensible policies." He writes of the brazen "shakedown" of Germany,
Switzerland and other countries by Israel and organized Jewry "to extort
billions of dollars." "The Holocaust," Finkelstein predicts, "may yet turn
out to be the 'greatest robbery in the history of mankind'."
Jews in Israel feel free to act brutally against Arabs, writes Israeli
journalist Ari Shavit, "believing with absolute certitude that now, with
the White House, the Senate and much of the American media in our hands,
the lives of others do not count as much as our own." (14)
Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff,
has spoken with blunt exasperation about the Jewish-Israeli hold on the
United States: (15)
I've never seen a President
-- I don't care who he is -- stand up to them [the Israelis]. It just
boggles the mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis know what
is going on all the time. I got to the point where I wasn't writing
anything down. If the American people understood what a grip those people
have got on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens
certainly don't have any idea what goes on.
Today the danger is greater than ever. Israel and Jewish organizations,
in collaboration with this country's pro-Zionist "amen corner," are
prodding the United States -- the world's foremost military and economic
power -- into new wars against Israel's enemies. As the French ambassador
in London recently acknowledged, Israel -- which he called "that shitty
little country" -- is a threat to world peace. "Why should the world be in
danger of
World War III because of those people?," he said.(16)
To sum up: Jews wield immense power and influence in the United States.
The "Jewish lobby" is a decisive factor in US support for Israel.
Jewish-Zionist interests are not identical to American interests. In fact,
they often conflict.
As long as the "very powerful" Jewish lobby remains entrenched, there will
be no end to the systematic Jewish distortion of current affairs and
history, the Jewish-Zionist domination of the U.S. political system,
Zionist oppression of Palestinians, the bloody conflict between Jews and
non-Jews in the Middle East, and the Israeli threat to peace.
Notes
1. Quoted in Forward (New York City), April 19, 2002, p. 11.
2. D. Tutu, "Apartheid in the Holy Land," The Guardian
(Britain), April 29, 2002.
3. Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State
(University of Chicago, 1993), pp. 1103.
4. S. Steinlight, "The Jewish Stake in America's Changing
Demography: Reconsidering a Misguided Immigration Policy," Center for
Immigration Studies, Nov. 2001.
5. Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, Jews and the New
American Scene (Harvard Univ. Press, 1995), pp. 26-27.
6. Janine Zacharia, "The Unofficial Ambassadors of the Jewish State," The
Jerusalem Post (Israel), April 2, 2000. Reprinted in "Other Voices," June
2000, p. OV-4, a supplement to The Washington Report on Middle East
Affairs.
7. M. Medved, "Is Hollywood Too Jewish?," Moment, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1996),
p. 37.
8. Jonathan Jeremy Goldberg, Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish
Establishment (Addison-Wesley, 1996), pp. 280, 287-288.
See also pp. 39-40, 290-291.
9. Interview with Larry King, CNN network, April 5, 1996.
"Brando Remarks," LA Times, April 8, 1996, p. F4 (OC). A short time later,
Brando was obliged to apologize for his remarks.
10. A. Lilienthal, The Zionist Connection (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1978),
pp. 206, 218, 219, 229.
11. From a 1992 lecture, published in: David Cesarani, ed., The Final
Solution: Origins and Implementation (London and New York: Routledge,
1994), pp. 305, 306.
12. Paula E. Hyman, "New Debate on the Holocaust," The New York Times
Magazine, Sept. 14, 1980, p. 79.
13. Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry (London, New York:
Verso, 2000), pp. 130, 138, 139, 149.
14. The New York Times, May 27, 1996. Shavit is identified as a columnist
for Ha'aretz, a Hebrew-language Israeli daily
newspaper, "from which this article is adapted."
15. Interview with Moorer, Aug. 24, 1983. Quoted in: Paul
Findley, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's
Lobby (Lawrence Hill, 1984 and 1985), p. 161.
16. D. Davis, "French Envoy to UK: Israel Threatens World
Peace," Jerusalem Post, Dec. 20, 2001. The French ambassador is Daniel
Bernard.
About the author
Mark Weber is director of the Institute for Historical Review.
He studied history at the University of Illinois (Chicago), the
University of Munich, Portland State University and Indiana
University (M.A., 1977). For nine years he served as editor of the IHR's
Journal of Historical Review.
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