When Victims Rule (pdf)

THE ACCUSATION OF ANTI-SEMITISM (PT. 2)
“[Anti-Semites] conceive of Jewish wealth not resulting from the occupational
and educational characteristics of Jews, but as evidence Jews
are money-oriented and materialistic. Likewise, they explain the presence
of Jews in the motion picture or media industries not in terms of
career choice, and as a consequence of the historic exclusion of Jews
from other industries, but as an indication of a Jewish attempt to control
the communications media in America. [QUINLEY, p. 197]
[An entire chapter will discuss Jewish dominance in the mass media p. 741,
later]
Will Jewish media stars Ted Koppel or Barbara Walters, Stephen Spielberg,
and the Jewish founders of ABC, CBS, and NBC tell us that they fell into their
fields because they were “historically excluded from other industries?” And isn’t
it the inherent tendency for any large business concern – Jewish or otherwise –
to strive towards vanquishing its competition and establishing a comfortable
monopoly, based upon ruthless, purely self-aggrandizing and nepotistic attitudes?
Doesn’t any serious large business enterprise– existing solely for the
profit of its owners – at least attempt, if it is in any way feasible, to “control the
industry?”
Curiously, the ADL researchers found that the anti-Semite is not merely a
single-minded stick figure as some might imagine. Researchers were somewhat
surprised to have their own stereotypes challenged when they discovered that
those they termed “anti-Semites” even recognized a variety of good qualities in
Jews:
“It is not entirely clear what should be made of such findings. They
would seem to indicate that Jews are widely admired and that a reservoir
of good will exists towards them. At the same time, it is apparent that
many of the positive responses were given by respondents scoring high
in anti-Semitism. Indeed, it seems to be a characteristic of prejudice that
certain “positive” stereotypes exist alongside negative ones.” [QUIN-
LEY, p. 11]
There were other ADL studies exploring the roots of anti-Jewish animus.
Most Jews don’t like Christmas carols sung in public schools, for example, and
it was discovered that “most Americans clearly support the singing of Christmas
carols in the schools and are unsympathetic to charges that this constitutes
discrimination against Jews.” [QUINLEY, p. 16] Other survey results revealed
that, when it comes to the Holocaust, as early as the 1970s, “43 percent [of
American respondents] agreed with the statement that Jews should stop complaining
about what happened to them in Nazi Germany.” [QUINLEY, p. 18]
And the researchers’ concluding comment on this? :
… Lack of special sympathy for Jews is often but not always grounded
in anti-Semitism.” [QUINLEY, p. 19]
When turning to surveys for anti-Semitism in the African-American community,
Blacks are disproportionately poor, as Jews are disproportionately well
off, and that’s how Blacks know them. For decades Jews have been close contact
with the Black community as slumlords, merchants, and agents of various
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