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"...even if Jews DID control banking, or media, or Congress...so what? Why is that presented as bad thing, ipsi pipsi. Now that Christians actually control everything, are we happy with how they do it? What would be worse if Jews controlled everything?"

Jews can control all they wish. I grew up with Jews from liberal progressive families, whose grandparents came from Russia or Eastern Europe and were staunch socialists dedicated to labor issues, as in the 8-hour work day, collective bargaining, end to child labor, Women's Rights. They were humanists and passionately anti-Fascist... and many of them were anti-Zionist, for they saw Zionism and Fascism as two sides of the same coin.

So, when right wing Zionist Jews have control, as they do where I live, public universities like UCLA start limiting, attacking and demonizing the free speech of Muslim and Arab students along with anyone, including other Jews, who are vocal about Israeli policies that spit in the face of international law. The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) are a legal, non-violent means of protest. But Dianne Feinstein's wealthy defense contractor husband has his own fascistic means to send a message to young boys and girls who have a conscience:

"One of the most dangerous threats to campus free speech has been emerging at the highest levels of the University of California system, the sprawling collection of 10 campuses that includes UCLA and UC Berkeley. The university’s governing Board of Regents, with the support of University President Janet Napolitano and egged on by the state’s legislature, has been attempting to adopt new speech codes that — in the name of combating “anti-Semitism” — would formally ban various forms of Israel criticism and anti-Israel activism.

Under the most stringent such regulations, students found to be in violation of these codes would face suspension or expulsion. In July, it appeared that the Regents were poised to enact the most extreme version, but decided instead to push the decision off until September, when they instead would adopt non-binding guidelines to define “hate speech” and “intolerance.”

One of the Regents most vocally advocating for the most stringent version of the speech code is Richard Blum, the multi-millionaire defense contractor who is married to Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California. At a Regents meeting last week, reported the Los Angeles Times, Blum expressly threatened that Feinstein would publicly denounce the university if it failed to adopt far more stringent standards than the ones it appeared to be considering, and specifically demanded they be binding and contain punishments for students found to be in violation."

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/dianne-feinstein-husband-threaten-univ-calif-demanding-ban-excessive-israel-criticism/

-- So much for Mario Savio's passionate speech and commitment:

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it — that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"


When reactionary Zionist Jewish organizations have power, as they do where I live, universities and cultural centers are fearful of inviting the best American minds: Jewish intellectuals like Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Max Blumenthal, Judith Butler, etc. Instead, they roll out the red carpet for the likes of Alan Dershowitz and Islamophobes such as Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer and that hideous tanned, lizard-face plastic-surgery-disaster hatemonger, Pamela Geller, who were all quoted at great length in Anders Breivek's manifesto, "2083", before the Norwegian terrorist went on a rampage and mass murdered 77 young boys and girls in his baptism of blood to roll the first stone in cleansing Europe of Muslims, feminists, cultural Marxists...

When Jews wield power, young traumatized Palestinian and other Arab children (Iraqis) who through art and drawing attempt to release and express the overwhelming pain and suffering they carry and bury deep within their little minds and hearts of a lop-sided never-seem-to-be-ending conflict with a regional superpower backed by the world's supreme military and economic power -- the last of Europe's colonial settler experiment imposing its will on the indigenous "untermenschen":

"Pro-Israel organizations pressured an Oakland children’s museum to cancel an upcoming exhibition of drawings made by Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip. Community leaders say the shutting down of the exhibition is the result of a disturbing — and well-funded — campaign to silence Palestinian voices across the US.

On 8 September, just two weeks before the exhibition was set to open to the public, the board of directors of the Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA) announced that they had canceled “A Child’s View of Gaza.” The board shut down the show due to pressure from “constituents,” according to a statement made by Randolph Bell, the board’s chairman, in the San Francisco Chronicle (“Oakland museum cancels Palestinian kids’ war art,” 9 September 2011).

The show was curated in partnership with the Berkeley-based non-profit group Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), which has been working for 23 years to advocate for Palestinian, Iraqi and Lebanese children’s rights. Barbara Lubin, MECA’s executive director, told The Electronic Intifada that it was “upsetting and infuriating” that the show was canceled, but she wasn’t surprised.

“Anybody who knows this issue knows that the Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs have launched a multi-million dollar project to combat what they call the ‘delegitmization’ of Israel,” Lubin said. “They try and suffocate the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and censor Palestinian cultural initiatives. What they’re doing is financing the work of silencing and shutting down anyone who wants to talk about what’s really happening to Palestinians.”

https://electronicintifada.net/content/gaza-childrens-images-war-censored-under-pressure-us-israel-lobby/10373

--- Meanwhile, multi-billion dollar projects have been in the works and continue to be in the making of more of "The Diary of Anne Frank" and other over-kill Holocaust books, films, poetry, paintings, photography, etc., since the "Shoah" has been one of the most documented tragedies in human history and it's horrific narrative has been recycled over and over again, while missing the point of "Never Again!" not only for Jewish victims, but for all of humanity... but some drawings by Arab children about the Palestinian "Nabka" or any suffering of the indigenous victims of historical Palestine or the war of aggression against Iraq, is in bad taste? As some Jews jokingly (but quite seriously) admit: "There's no business like Shoah business!"

Finally, when right wing Zionists wield power, as they do where I live, the criteria is always: "is it good for the Jews?" (basically, fuck everybody else... we are the "Chosen".)

Personally, even though some of my close friends are Jewish, I still believe that Black people are the most exploited, the most killed, the most hated, no matter whether they are in the African continent, or in North and South America, or in China trying to get ahead while dealing with Chinese racism against dark skin, which they (many Chinese) deem as "evil". In the Congo since the 1990's, over six-million Congolese have been killed... over six-million!


And then there's this, from the liberal Jewish Ynet:


How did American Jews get so rich?

Since the mass immigration some 100 years ago, Jews have become richest religious group in American society. They make up only 2% of US population, but 25% of 400 wealthiest Americans. How did it happen, and how crucial is their aid to Israel?

Tani Goldstein
Published: 10.26.11, 15:23 / Israel Business

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder sparked a row recently by calling on Israel to launch immediate peace negotiations with the Palestinians. The statement was perceived as criticism against Lauder's personal friend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Later, Lauder reiterated his "unequivocal" support for Netanyahu and "policies that seek to create a lasting peace in the Middle East".

Lauder's remarks made headlines and sparked both enthusiastic and angry responses not just because of his important role, but also – and mainly – because he is a very rich man.

Wall Street: Many Jews

Forbes magazine estimates his wealth at $2.7 billion. His family owns the Estée Lauder cosmetics giant, he is one of the biggest art collectors in the world, and owns dozens of television channels and media outlets in the United States and worldwide, including 25% of Israel's Channel 10 TV. He is a heavy donor to countless Jewish and Israeli organizations, bodies and officials – including Netanyahu.

Jews in all centers of power

Lauder is definitely not the only American Jew funneling money to Israel while influencing the country. Many Israeli adults used to receive a parcel from "the rich uncle in America" during their childhood. Thousands of organizations, including hospitals and universities, receive billions of shekels in donations from the US. A Hebrew University study found that they make up about two-third of all donations in Israel.

Each new immigrant receives aid from the Jewish Agency, whose budget is mostly made up of donations from the US. Many of us live on lands the Jewish National Fund bought from Arabs by Jewish-American money. A haredi yeshiva student gets NIS 1,000 ($295) a month from the Israeli government, and another NIS 3,000 ($885) from haredi American donors.

The online Jewish Encyclopedia says some 5.6 million Jews live in the United States (not including half a million Israelis) – about 1.8% of the population. Most of them reside in rich cities: Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Boston, and mainly New York.

A study of the Pew Forum institute from 2008 found that Jews are the richest religious group in the US: Forty-six of Jews earn more than $100,000 a year, compared to 19% among all Americans. Another Gallup poll conducted this year found that 70% of American Jews enjoy "a high standard of living" compared to 60% of the population and more than any other religious group.

Hollywood: Many Jews

More than 100 of the 400 billionaires on Forbes' list of the wealthiest people in America are Jews. Six of the 20 leading venture capital funds in the US belong to Jews, according to Forbes.

Google founder Sergey Brin has a Jewish father, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is Jewish, as is his deputy, David Fischer, the son of Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer. The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Shalom Bernanke, is Jewish too, as is he predecessor, Alan Greenspan, and the Fed founder, Paul Warburg.

Jews are well represented in Wall Street, Silicon Valley, the US Congress and Administration, Hollywood, TV networks and the American press – way beyond their percentage in the population.

From town to Brooklyn alleys

The United States is among the richest countries in the world, making American Jews one of the wealthiest ethnic groups in the universe. Their success story is even more phenomenal considering the speed in which they became rich.

Only several thousand Jews lived in the US upon its establishment on July 4, 1776, most of them Marrano and people who were exiled or escaped from Spain in favor of colonies in North America.

In the mid 19th century, some 200,000 Jews immigrated to the US, mostly from Germany and central Europe. Most of them were Reform Jews, well-established, who saw themselves as Germans and Americans more than as Jews. They scattered across the continent and set up businesses, from small stores and factories to financial giants like Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs.

The great wave of immigration began in 1882. Czarist Russia, which was home to about half of the world's Jews, went through a failed industrial revolution and was on the verge of collapse, while the Jews living in small towns became impoverished and suffered from cruel pogroms.

Within 42 years, some two million Jews immigrated to the US from Ukraine, western Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Romania. They made up 25% of the Jewish population in those countries, about 15% of the world's Jews, and 10 times the number of Jews who immigrated to the Land of Israel during that period.

The US became the world's biggest Jewish concentration. The mass immigration to Israel began in 1924, when the US enacted tough laws which halted the immigration.

The immigrants arrived in the US on crowded boats, and most of them were as poor as church mice. Dr. Robert Rockaway, who studied that period, wrote that 80% of US Jews were employed in manual work before World War I, most of them in textile factories.

Many workplaces were blocked to the Jews due to an anti-Semitic campaign led by industrialist Henry Ford. Most of them lived in crowded and filthy slums in New York – Brooklyn and the Lower East Side.

Many films and books describe the world established in those neighborhoods: Vibrant, but tough and brutal. There was a lively culture of cabarets and small Yiddish theaters, alongside a Jewish mafia with famous crime bosses such as Meyer Lansky, Abner "Longie" Zwillman, and Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, who grew up in the filthy alleys.

Many of the Jews, who were socialists in Europe, became active in labor unions and in workers' strikes and protests. Many trade unions were established by Jews.

The Jewish immigrants, however, emerged from poverty and made faster progress than any other group of immigrants. According to Rockaway, in the 1930s, about 20% of the Jewish men had free professions, double the rate in the entire American population.

Anti-Semitism weakened after World War II and the restrictions on hiring Jews were reduced and later canceled as part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, thanks to the struggle of liberal activists, many of whom were Jews.

In 1957, 75% of US Jews were white-collar workers, compared to 35% of all white people in the US; in 1970, 87% of Jewish men worked in clerical jobs, compared to 42% of all white people, and the Jews earned 72% more than the general average. The only remnant of their poverty is that most of them still support a welfare policy and the Democratic Party.

As they became richer, Jews integrated into society. They moved from the slums to the suburbs, abandoned Yiddish and adopted the clothes, culture, slang and dating and shopping habits of the non-Jewish elite.

Most Jews left religion when they immigrated to the US, but returned to it later on and joined Reform and Conservative communities, becoming more alike the Americans, most of whom are religious Christians.

'Jews always studied more'

Alongside the Jews, millions of immigrants arrived in the US from Ireland, Italy, China and dozens of other countries. They too have settled down since then, but the Jews succeeded more than everyone. Why? All the experts we asked said the reason was Jewish education. Jewish American student organization Hillel found that 9 to 33% of students in leading universities in the US are Jewish.

"The Jewish tradition always sanctified studying, and the Jews made an effort to study from the moment they arrived in American," says Danny Halperin, Israel's former economic attaché in Washington. "In addition, the Jews have a strong tradition of business entrepreneurship. The Irish, for example, came from families of land workers with a different mentality, studies less and initiated less.

"The Jews progressed because many areas were blocked to them," says Halperin. "Many Irish were integrated into the police force, for example, and only few Jews. The Jews entered new fields in which there was need for people with initiative. They didn't integrate into traditional banking, so they established the investment banking."

"The cinema industry was created from scratch in the 1930s, and the Jews basically took over it. To this day there are many Jewish names in the top echelon of Hollywood and the television networks. Later on, they took high-tech by storm too – another new industry requiring learning abilities."

'Grandpa arrived with $2, dad completed PhD'

"The Jews were the first people to undergo globalization," says Rebecca Caspi, senior vice president of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA). "They had a network of global connections way before other nations, and a strong and supportive community.

"The Jewish communal organization is considered a role model for all other ethnic groups. It helped the Jews everywhere and especially in the US, which was always more open than other countries and provided equal opportunities, while on the other hand –wasn't supportive of the individual."

How do community institutions help people succeed in business?

"The mutual help allowed poor Jews to study. My family is an example of what happened to millions. My grandfather arrived in New York with two dollars in his pocket. He sold pencils, and then pants and then other things, and in the meantime studied English, German and Spanish and established ties.

"He had five children, and the family had a small store in Brooklyn. They got help from the HIAS Jewish organization, which allowed them to study. They were so poor that they didn't have money for textbooks, so the siblings helped each other. My father was the youngest, and until he started university the four older siblings had already managed to settle down, so they all helped him complete his medical studies."

"The Jews had to excel in order to survive," says Avia Spivak, a professor of economic and former Bank of Israel deputy governor. "I once had a student of Russian descent, who told me that his parents said to him, 'You must be the best, because then you might get a small role.'

"That was the situation of the Jews abroad, and in America too until the 1960s. The most prestigious universities didn't take in Jewish students, so they studied in colleges and got the best grades. When the discrimination disappeared, the Jews reached the top."

Is that why they succeeded in the US more than in other places?
The discrimination lessened in most countries. I think Jews succeeded in America in particular because capitalism is good for the Jews. Jews have a tendency for entrepreneurship, they study more and have quick perception, know how to seize opportunities and have networking skills. A competitive environment gives Jews an advantage."

Is that the reason Israelis are not as rich as American Jews?

"I think the 'Jewish genius' – which is not a genetic issue but a cultural issue – is expressed in Israel in other areas. The Jews in America arrived in a country with existing, stable and strong infrastructure. Here they had to build the entire infrastructure from scratch, under harsh conditions."

'Government hurting aid, but it'll continue'

There is no doubt that American Jews' huge success helped Jews survive in Israel.

"The help is beyond the actual donations," says Caspi. "The federal aid arrives largely thanks to the Jewish pressure. Israeli businesspeople use their connections in America to open markets and raise funds, especially for the venture capital industry."

The American aid strengthens the connection between the two communities – which together make up about 80% of the Jewish people – but also creates discomfort on both sides: The Americans view Israel as a "shelter for a rainy day" and feel committed to help the State, but some feel their money is being wasted due to wrong moves; the Israelis live in fear of what will happen if and when the aid stops. The fear is increasing, with one-third of US Jews marrying non-Jews and stating that they feel less connected to Israel.

"Israel would have been established and would have survived even without the American aid, but it would have been poorer," says Halperin. "There are areas, like higher education, in which the aid is critical – and if it suddenly disappears, things will be difficult."

Every time there are arguments between the Israeli government and Jews in America, Israeli and American public figures warn that "one day they'll have enough and stop donating." Can that happen?
"The scope of donations is decreasing in the past few years," says Halperin. "The Jews have a sense of belonging to the American society and give their donations to American organizations. They want to see their names at a New York museum rather than at Jerusalem museum.


"As the Holocaust becomes more distant, the fear for Israel's existence drops. In addition, Israel is no longer perceived as a poor country. And the Americans have their own problems: The financial crisis and education in the US, which is becoming more and more expensive. The donations will gradually drop, and may eventually disappear.

"But it's hard for me to believe that the donations will disappear at once because of a political crisis. It looks like our government is trying to make it happen with all its might, but fortunately, it can't even do that."

Read from the site here: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4099803,00.html


Then there's that other thing: the poisoning of wells. Christians fucked with Jews knowing how important water and cleanliness is to practicing Jews, just as it is to Muslims, five times during the day the ablution is a fundamental aspect of religious ritual prior to prayer (for Muslims). So the rumors were set in stone that Jews poison wells. Well, when Jews were accused of this, they were completely innocent; but in these recent years, there have been cases of well poisoning by settler Jews reported by... other Jews with a conscience and a set of universal and internationalist principles. This is from BREAKING THE SILENCE, a group of former IDF soldiers and officers who are speaking truth to power, because Jewish ethics contradict Zionist attacks on others' Human Rights:

"Ammar Imraizig of ACF explained that Susiya is in Area C – a zone defined by the Oslo Accords that encompasses 59 per cent of West Bank land – in which the Israeli government controls access to civil services, including potable water. During the summer, Susiya residents pay nearly $10 per cubic meter of water – about five times what Israelis pay. Imraizig is the programme manager for ACF’s clean water initiative in Susiya, and he is working to help residents get water affordably by building a filling station closer to the village. However, he told us, settlers have contaminated Susiya’s existing wells, and his requests for construction permits to replace them have thus far been denied.

Heather Kathryn Ross

A view from Palestinian Susiya toward nearby Susiya Settlement. Villagers in Susiya face constant harassment from settler groups and threats of eviction from Israeli forces. Heather Kathryn Ross

Soldiers’ testimonies recorded by Breaking the Silence verify Imraizig’s claim. A lieutenant in Civil Administration, who chose to remain anonymous, told BTS: ‘Poisoning wells, that happens [in the South Hebron Hills] plenty. There was this story of settlers throwing dead chickens into the Palestinians’ well… There was nothing to do. We brought them water tanks,’ the soldier said. ‘Most of those wells aren’t legal and they should actually be destroyed, but wells are not destroyed mostly. For their benefit.’

- See more at: http://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2011/10/20/breaking-the-silence-israeli-soldiers/#sthash.nGxOQKwq.dpuf

And this is from France, the free spirit of Western Europe:

"The post-Charlie Hebdo “free speech” march in Paris was a fraud for multiple reasons, as I wrote at the time. It was led by dozens of world leaders, many of whom imprison or even kill people for expressing prohibited views. It was cheered by many Westerners who feign upset only when free speech abridgments are perpetrated by Muslims, but not — as is far more common — by their own governments against Muslims.

Worst of all, the march took place in a country that is one of the most hostile to free speech rights in the West, as France quickly demonstrated in the days after the march by rounding up and prosecuting Muslims and other anti-Israel activists for the political views they expressed. A great, best-selling book by French philosopher Emmanuel Todd released this year argues that these “free speech” marches were a “sham,” driven by many political sentiments — nativism, nationalism, anti-Muslim bigotry — that had nothing to do with free speech."

Further down:

"Indeed, an outstanding Washington Post op-ed this week by a former IDF soldier, Assaf Gavron, documents how such attacks on Israel critics now extend to Israeli citizens themselves. Gavron describes how “the internal discussion in Israel is more militant, threatening and intolerant than it has ever been,” and “those few dissenters who attempt to contradict it — to ask questions, to protest, to represent a different color from this artificial consensus — are ridiculed and patronized at best, threatened, vilified and physically attacked at worst.”

https://theintercept.com/2015/10/27/criminalization-of-anti-israel-activism-escalates-this-time-in-the-land-of-the-charlie-hebdo-free-speech-march/


Whether Jews are on top of the apex (which I don't believe they are) or not, is not important. What's troubling is when I walk into my favorite Jewish Deli in one of L.A.'s old Jewish neighborhoods and overhear people talking about "dropping a bomb on Iran and turning it into glass", or "tell your Arab-lover son he should sew back his foreskin" because a lady was talking about her Jewish son taking part in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) on his university campus... to which I referred above regarding Dianne Feinstein's husband threatening to sic his powerful, politician attack dog wife on the university if they don't outlaw criticism of Israeli policies.

When Reagan came into power, he needed the Christian Right, a large group of believers who had deliberately refrained from participating in politics. When they were politically activated and became engaged in voting, they came out... and they were many! As Christian Zionists, one of their top projects was to raise money for Israel, and preach about the End Times, which they see as the second coming of Jesus. But for that to transpire, they must persuade Jews all over the world to emigrate to Israel, which they hope and pray will trigger Armageddon, at which time Jesus will appear (as he promised) and all of his groupies will get back stage passes to Paradise... but as far as their Jewish brothers (the Hebros), only one-third are allowed to join the party by accepting Christ as their savior, and the rest -- well, the rest will burn in eternal fire with the rest of us heathens.

So who are the power elites of our day? Evangelicals and Dominionists (imagine all of that tax-free money), and their Jr. partners are various Jewish individuals and Zionist organizations who reluctantly are engaged with the devil, that is, with the same people who blamed them for killing their savior, and who now need them to bring back their savior via world destruction. The Episcopalians still hold the reigns of power, as do Catholics. But since the Reagan era, Evangelicals being the new pricks on the block, have reached the top of the pyramid on the backs of Jewish "Chosenness".



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