January 9, 2024

Before the United States instituted the National Origins Quota of 1924 and limited immigration, over two million people of Jewish heritage, mostly from central Europe or Russia, had entered the United States. The old world was rampant with anti-Semitism and America’s freedoms made it a place where Abraham’s Biblical descendants could make a new beginning.

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To ensure their next generation would get ahead, American Jewish immigrants focused on education and hard work. Given the Jewish people’s history of enduring terrible anti-Semitism, it was not surprising that they would preferentially aid one another. Initially, there was significant anti-Semitism in America, but the hard-working Jewish Americans took any job they could. Their children studied hard, and Jewish Americans used any newfound influence to help their youth achieve their individual goals.

An example of this dynamic is that in the 1930s the Ivy League and other elite colleges discriminated against Jewish applicants. Knowing admission to an elite Ivy-like college was a key to success, Jewish Americans fought this injustice. Using the argument that admissions should be based on merit they were able to gradually gain access to the elite corridors of power. The Jewish percentage of students at Harvard reached a high of 25% and is now around 10%. American Jews account for 14% of physicians and over 60% of lawyers. Congress is 6% Jewish, the Senate 8% and at present one Supreme Court judge is Jewish (It has been as high as three). Twenty-five percent of Forbes‘ list of billionaires are Jewish, and the entertainment industry is dominated by Jewish Americans. These numbers are remarkable given that Jewish Americans make up approximately 2% of the population.

Throughout the 20th and early 21st century a significant majority {67%} of Jewish Americans aligned with the Democrat Party. In opposition to the anti-Semitic Republican WASP power structure; Jewish Americans found common ground and common cause within the Democrat coalition of other marginalized groups such as Black Americans, blue-collar workers, and socially liberal thinkers. Powerful Jewish Americans have become very influential Democrat supporters.

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Over the last several decades America’s political coalitions have drastically changed and progressives have taken control of the Democrat party. The Democrat Muslim vote is growing and will eventually outnumber the Jewish vote. The Progressive Democrat Party has become the party of rich college-educated white-privilege-hating elites and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) minorities. Blue-collar non-college-educated voters have migrated to the GOP.

The new progressive Democrat party in which Jewish Americans have a significant influence has forced DEI policies on America. They have turned their back as elite colleges have systematically excluded traditional conservative Americans. The same elite colleges that once discriminated against Jewish Americans.

During this same period, to avoid the wrath of radical progressive faculty and students, traditional American thinkers have been forced to hide their politically incorrect views. Campus First Amendment rights have become reserved for progressives such as think Pro Hamas, LBGT, and Pro-choicers, while traditional American values were deemed hate speech.

But the winds of change are blowing and an evil that has haunted the Jewish people for centuries is rearing its ugly head.

The progressive Democrat response to the October 7th Hamas massacre of 1200 innocent Jews has exposed their latent anti-Semitism and is a likely harbinger of what is to come. Despite their huge financial contributions and party leadership positions, Jewish Americans only represent a small percentage of the modern Democrat party and they are now being perceived by their fellow progressives as “White Privileged.” Perhaps best summarized in a recent WSJ Opinion:

The only logical way around this conundrum is for the woke left to say that Jews are “white.” Jews are now privileged people of European origin who game the system. The horrors of past antisemitism are seen as general oppression, and it is an accident that the focus of that oppression happened to be Jews. They see Israel as a place where European whites who happen to be Jews colonized the land of native nonwhites.