None of this should be surprising. Jewish populations have always had enormous effects on the societies where they reside because of two qualities that are central to Judaism as a group evolutionary strategy: High intelligence (including the usefulness of intelligence in attaining wealth) and the ability to cooperate in highly organized, cohesive groups (MacDonald 1994). This has led repeatedly to Jews becoming an elite and powerful group in societies where they reside in sufficient numbers�as much in the 20th-century United States and the Soviet Union as in 15th-century Spain or Alexandria in the ancient world. History often repeats itself after all. Indeed, recent data indicate that Jewish per capita income in the United States is almost double that of non-Jews, a bigger difference than the black-white income gap. Although Jews make up less than 3 percent of the population, they constitute more than a quarter of the people on the Forbes magazine list of the richest four hundred Americans. A remarkable 87 percent of college-age Jews are currently enrolled in institutions of higher education, as compared with 40 percent for the population as a whole (Thernstrom & Thernstrom 1997). Jews are indeed an elite group in American society (see also Chapter 8).
My perception is that the Jewish community in the U.S. is moving aggressively ahead, ignoring the huge disruptions Jewish organizations have caused in the West (now mainly via successful advocacy of massive non-European immigration) and in the Islamic world (via the treatment of Palestinians by Israel). Whatever the justification for such beliefs, U.S. support for Israel is by all accounts an emotionally compelling issue in the Arab world. A true test of Jewish power in the United States will be whether support for Israel is maintained even in the face of the enormous costs that have already been paid by the U.S. in terms of loss of life, economic disruption, hatred and distrust throughout the Muslim world, and loss of civil liberties at home. As of this writing, while Jewish organizations are bracing for a backlash against Jews in the U.S. and while there is considerable concern among Jews about the Bush Administration�s pressure on Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians in order to placate the Muslim world (e.g., Rosenblatt 2001), all signs point to no basic changes in the political culture of the United States vis-�-vis Israel as a result of the events of 9-11-01.
Kevin MacDonald Preface to the First Paperback Edition of The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements
{there was this cliche in the 60's where people would say "some of my best friends are..." fill in the blank, negroes, homos, quadriplegics, Martians. my concern is the validity or not of McDonald's assertion about Jewish-American economic standing, 3 percent of the population, a quarter of the Forbes' top one hundred. so that when we speak of the heartlessness of the wealthy in these hardening times, we may be speaking of more than just Anglo-Saxon good ol boys taking care of their own. it's funny in a way, so strange seeming, but why? it's not that far-fetched really, Marxism was founded by Jews, Christianity based on a Jewish book and founded by Jews, and the constant muttering accusations of Jewish behind-the-scenes manipulation of the world economy, though that's one aspect of current events I know nothing about. what difference does it make? what does it mean? I don't know. don't care much anymore. whoever's running this show is not someone I want to hang with, but I keep being goaded by the memory of innocent boys, waking up at the edge of things, the possibilities yet unrealized, giving up means failing them at least, and failing them means the girls they stand before, protective still in their green time... I can't stand it. and yet every day I do. I stand it. break down fall and get back up. come back for more. for that, for them, for you, wherever you are, whenever you are. this is a bunch of horseshit, lies and lies upon lies, the job is to stop that without stopping everything else. so much easier to let it all go...}
