Is it really true that America’s richest 1% are ‘overwhelmingly Jewish’?

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Is it really true that America’s richest 1% are ‘overwhelmingly Jewish’?

September 18th, 2017

Awake Goy

Is it really true that America’s richest 1% are ‘overwhelmingly Jewish’?

By Eric Zuesse.
washingtonsblog.com

Eric Zuesse, originally published at The Saker (where the authors responses to reader-comments challenging this report, can also be seen)

On September 8th, an article I wrote for Strategic Culture Foundation, What Americas Aristocracy Want, was republished at the Donbass (far-eastern formerly Ukrainian) website, South Front . The article blamed a lot on Americas billionaires and centi-millionaires, the American aristocracy (as I referred to it), who own controlling blocs of stock in Americas largest corporations, and whose political donations control the U.S. federal Government. It defined the powerful Americans whose agenda is harmful for the world, as consisting of the very few richest Americans (and their agents who run their international corporations, nonprofits, newsmedia, and lobbying). But the most-heavily up-voted reader-comments there, were from people who clearly received a very different message from that article. They blamed Jews and all of them (not merely the super-rich ones). Americas billionaires who arent Jews were set aside from blame, in their comments. The first (the most popular) reader-comment was No, the reason they think they’re superior isn’t being Aryan (quite the opposite) or especially cunning or whatever. They think so because it’s their religion [the richest] american 1%’ is overwhelmingly jewish. The second-most-favored comment was America is NOT ruled by an aristocracy. It is ruled by a plutocracy. To be more precise it is ruled by a Judeo-pluto-kleptocracy. The third-most-favored comment was A better title would be ‘What America’s Jews Want’.

So, I decided to see whether or not their basic assumption is true, that most of Americas billionaires and centi-millionaires most of the people whose money controls the U.S. Government are Jews. Although, obviously, theres no scientifically justifiable reason to treat Jewish billionaires differently from non-Jewish ones, those readers believe that there is such a reason; and, so, seeking a possible fact-based reason for those comments (and for their popularity), I concentrated upon the allegation that Americas billionaires are overwhelmingly Jewish. Its something that I had never looked into before, and it certainly would be interesting, if it is true (even if it doesnt really relate to the question of how rational it is to ignore the impact that non- Jewish billionaires and centi-millionaires are having on American politics).

The Forbes 400 is the standard list of Americas wealthiest 400 individuals. At the present moment, as this is being written, on September 16th, here are the top 10:

#1: Bill Gates, $81B

#2: Jeff Bezos, $67B

#3: Warren Buffett, $65.5B

#4: Mark Zuckerberg, $55.5B

#5: Larry Ellison, $49.3B

#6: Michael Bloomberg, $45B

#7-8: Charles Koch, $42B

#7-8: David Koch, $42B

#9: Larry Page, $38.5B

#10: Sergey Brin, 37.5B

Zuckerberg, Bloomberg, and Brin, would have been called Jews by Adolf Hitlers Nuremberg Laws (and, since Wikipedias censored article there ignores what the implications of being a Mischlinge or mixed-race person were, heres that), which I presume is the standard, for what a Jew is, that those reader-comments were accepting and applying by their use of the term Jew but those commenters didnt indicate what they meant by Jews. One can only guess, but this seems to be the intent of those most-popular comments. If thats what they were referencing, then 3 of the top 10 are probably Jews.

#12: S. Robson Walton, $35.5B

#13: Alice Walton, $35.4B

#14: Sheldon Adelson, $31.8B

#15: Steve Ballmer, $27.5B

#16-17: Jacqueline Mars, $27B

#16-17: John Mars, $27B

#18: Phil Knight, $25.5B

#19: George Soros, $24.9B

#20: Michael Dell, $20B

Adelson, Soros, and Dell, would probably have been treated as Juden in Hitlers Germany.

#22: Len Blavatnik, $18.2B

#23: Laurene Powell Jobs, $17.7B

#24: James Simons, $16.5B

#25: Ray Dalio, $15.9B

#26: Carl Icahn, $15.7B

#27: Donald Bren, $15.2B

#28: Charles Ergen, $14.7B

#29: Abigail Johnson, $13.2B

#30: Harold Hamm, $13.1B

Blavatnik, Simons, Icahn, and Bren, probably would have qualified.

#31: Steve Cohen, $13B

#32: Thomas Peterffy, $12.6B

#33: Ronald Perelman, $12.2B

#34: Elon Musk, $11.6B

#35: David Tepper, $11.4B

#36: Eric Schmidt, $11.3B

#37: Lucas Walton, $11.2B

#38: Rupert Murdoch, $11.1B

#39-40: Philip Anschutz, $10.8B

#39-40: Jim Kennedy, $10.8B

Cohen, Perelman, and Tepper, probably would have qualified.

So, amongst the richest 10% of the Forbes 400 richest Americans and thats the richest 40 of them 13, or 32.5%, would (or at least might) have qualified as Jews in Hitlers Germany. The rest definitely would not. That isnt overwhelmingly jewish, and its not even mostly Jewish (not nearly that); it is, instead, 32.5% who are possibly Jewish, in Hitlers definition (which seems to be what the commenters are applying, though they didnt say; perhaps theyre simply not intelligent enough to define their own central terms and theres no way of knowing whether, for example, converts to Judaism are Jews, to them).

However, what about the 67.5%+, who are non– Jews, and all of whom would have qualified as Aryans under Hitler. Why do these readers, who had commented, ignore those aristocrats (who still are among the people that really control America)? My article was about the aristocracy, not about the Jews not at all. Why are so many readers obsessed with Jews, as being subjects for special blame, absolving all non– Jews even non- Jews who are far richer than 99.9% of Jews (according to any definition)? And, why are they blaming those 99.9% who are Jews, but who are not at all super-rich? Where does this religious (or is it racist?) hatred come from? It certainly is counter-factual (in any case). It certainly is delusional. And it certainly is harmful and not only to Jews. It mis-focuses blame. The same thing happened in the U.S. Jim-Crow-era South, by the many lynchings of innocent Blacks. Everyone suffers bigots of every type.

And, of course, there are bigots of every type some are Whites, some are Blacks, some are Jews, some are Christians, etc. The group is irrelevant. So, why do so many people even raise that issue, which isnt actually an issue, at all? Slavery in the United States (and the slave-trade) was originally a business owned by the British King, but then became more generally a business owned by the British aristocracy, and subsequently became a business owned by the emerging U.S. aristocracy and all of these were almost exclusively Christian aristocrats, despite bigots emphasis upon the Jews who participated so, how can any person who has a brain, simply ignore the barbarizms by the Christians who constituted the vast majority of Americas aristocracy, throughout American history. There are good and bad people of all religions, and of no religion, and of every nationality. The group is irrelevant.

Progress cant be made, when and where bigots are common. Why do bigots ignore the aristocracy, and focus instead against Jews, Muslims, Blacks, Chinese, etc.? This is a deflection, of blame (and, clearly, the blame belongs to the richest 1% the oligarchy or aristocracy and doesnt belong to any ethnic or cultural minority). Its a deflection, of blame, quite specifically, away from aristocrats themselves, and onto vulnerable groups within the general public, instead. Usually, media funded by conservative billionaires stir up the bigots; but, sometimes, media funded by liberal billionaires stir them up. Do the aristocrats and their agents (the newsmedia, etc.) want and encourage that deflection of blame, so as to distract the public away from the real source of problems? Are bigots merely the aristocracys fools? Is that what all of this (bigotry thats displayed in those reader-comments) is actually about distracting fools, away from the actual source of their problems, so as to protect the tiny economic elite who are actually guilty for (and profiting from) the ceaseless invasions, corruption, immense wastage, and the resulting misery thats suffered by the millions of victims of the policies that billionaires demand their politicians to produce? Are there billionaires who own or control newsmedia that condemn all the other newsmedia for their deceiving the public into supporting evil invasions, etc.? Which billionaires spoke out about and hired and promoted journalists to report on the lies that were producing Americas invasion of Iraq? Which billionaires and media exposed the lies that were behind (and that have since covered-up) the U.S. coup in Ukraine? Why were all of Americas super-rich on the side of invasions, and of coups? Isnt it even so much as noticed by the bigots, that all of the billionaires of all ethnicities either supported these atrocities, or else otherwise wouldnt employ journalists who wanted to report about them? Even just one billionaire could have done that, but none did. None reported on George W. Bushs lies leading up to Americas 2003 invasion of Iraq, nor on Barack Obamas lies about his bloody coup in Ukraine in 2014. None. Not even one. Any one of Americas billionaires could have (because each one of them possessed the financial means to do it), but none did so. The lies went unchallenged. And thats because no billionaire cared to separate himself or herself from all the others and tell their media companies to hire the reporters who would report about the lying, instead of simply to report the lying statements. Democracy is impossible without truth. Ethnicity has nothing to do with the real problem.