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February 26, 2009 | 3:04 pm

Jews, mammon and anti-Semitism

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

My perspective on the Leonard Abess story was shaped by an op-ed I wrote two weeks prior regarding the on-again, off-game economic blame game that haunts Jews. I’ve been writing about the financial scapegoating aimed at Jews and reading a lot of books on the history of Jews and money, and the Christian Science Monitor decided to publish my commentary in tomorrow’s paper and online now.

I opened by mentioning Zaccheus, Fagin and Shylock, and then got into the medieval history that pushed Jews into moneylending and prepared American immigrant Jews for their meteoric rise from rural peddlers to international financiers. It concludes:

The saga of Lehman Brothers came to a sudden end Sept. 15, not coincidentally at the same time that Jews once again became the scapegoat for this country’s, and the world’s, economic problems.

Since then, conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites alike have been busy bombarding financial blogs, Jewish journalism outlets, and their self-serving forums with comments about how former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Lehman Brothers, and others are orchestrating this crisis to crush the goy.

It’s the same trope that’s been repeated since long before the rise of the House of Rothschild: The “international Jew,” as Henry Ford deemed this global tribe, starts wars and manipulates markets for self-gain and schadenfreude.

And it’s just as vacuous now as it was then. Jews are certainly prominent in the US financial market, but they remain an underwhelming minority.

Time magazine’s list this month of the “25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis” includes, by my count, six Jews – which means that more than 75 percent of the culpable were not Jewish. Among the blameworthy were former President Bush, disgraced subprime lender Angelo Mozilo and, ahem, the american consumer. There is little Jews can do to kill this old canard. But they can learn from the mistakes that enabled one of their own to use the communal bonds in American Jewry to orchestrate the biggest con in US history.

Though some Jewish money managers have proved to be scoundrels at best, like Shylock, it is not because they are Jewish – just as Christianity did not inspire Ken Lay to cheat Enron’s shareholders. Indeed, Jews may be the easy historical target, but scapegoating misses the moral of our own failures. The real responsibility lies with all of us.

You can read the entire op-ed here.

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what percentage of the population is jewish?  > or < 6/25-ths?

Comment by Proton Soup on 2/27/09 at 1:27 am

Far less, obviously. But that percentage of the culpable is close to the proportion of Jews working in the financial field.

Comment by Brad A. Greenberg on 2/27/09 at 1:57 am

without that piece of data, the math just looks misleading.  24/25-ths of people that read it probably won’t notice, though.

Comment by Proton Soup on 2/27/09 at 2:20 am

Brad A. Greenberg, you’ve proven this post that you nothing more then the lying, manipulating Jew illustrated in your cited works. 

I quote…

“Time magazine’s list this month of the “25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis” includes, by my count, six Jews – which means that more than 75 percent of the culpable were not Jewish.”

Time Magazine is OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY JEWS you son-of-a-bitch! So Jews say Jews not to blame for Jew-caused crisis which will benefit Jews.

We goyim (cattle) are waking up to you lies and deceit.  The evil among you will be brought to justice for your crimes.  And those who conspired with them, even if only to defend will pay as well.

The worst day in American history when was the first boatload of Jewish supremacists stepped onto Ellis Island.  Jews have RUINED my country which I now HATE because it is no longer a Christian nation, but an evil Jewish police state.

I pray to God every day for a solution the curse which is the Jewish supremacists and their control over MY MONEY!

You people, your thieving clan, you pirates, you scourge on history, you literally make me sick.  I want you GONE from my country so bad I can’t even describe it, I can’t even put it into words.

Jesus Christ please just go away.  Please just make these EVIL people GO AWAY!

Comment by Bob on 2/27/09 at 9:54 pm

Wow! Bob.  You need to seek a psychiatrist.  Get help.  Now!

Comment by magdelyn on 2/27/09 at 9:59 pm

Bob, please don’t claim to worship my God.

Comment by Brad A. Greenberg on 2/27/09 at 11:00 pm

An interesting book to read is ‘Jews and Modern Capitalism’ by Werner Sombart. There is a free PDF online. (It’s a sort of companion piece to Weber’s ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’). Unfortunately, it’s nearly 100 years old. I’m guessing there hasn’t been a similar book recently due to the sensitivity surrounding the subject. Without a clear-eyed source of reference, you will only hear people shouting that ‘the Jew’ is to blame, or people on the other side saying Jews are entirely blameless.

Comment by Terry on 2/28/09 at 8:05 am

Mr. Greenberg, you state that the responsibility for this financial crisis lies with all of us. While I agree that Jew and Gentile are both culpable, I must remind you that it is the Jew who considers himself God’s Chosen People. For you to say that you did it, but so did everyone else, spits in the face of what being God’s chosen really means. For it is suppose to mean that you are NOT like everyone else, but rather, you are committed to doing what is right in the sight of God, above all else. What Jews have done is they have made money their god. They have convinced themselves that, as long as they have money, they have all the power they need to ensure that Jews are safe, secure, and superior to the Gentiles. Now, your god has failed you. What Jews have ignored is the teaching found in Proverbs 23:4-5, which states the following: “Do not weary yourself with getting rich, and have nothing to do with dishonest gain. You fix your gaze on this, and it is there no longer, for it is able to sprout wings like an eagle that flies off to the sky.” You have chosen to trust in the power of money, instead of the power of God, and as usual, the power of money has proven itself to be fleeting. For ONLY the power of God is everlasting.

Comment by KMB on 3/01/09 at 2:54 pm

the real culprit is greed and stupidness.

you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

far more likely is the fact that only power-hungry folks went into finance and politics, by far gentiles and other races.

a perfect example of jew paranoia.

and is it any wonder, every time something goes wrong, they take the blame , and not in proportion to the guilt.

hopefully this time the jesuits and atheists won’t be able to shift their own money changeing and theft onto the jews.

the medical mafia and vatican controlled military are responsible for far more death and suffering than the jews.

Comment by Bob on 4/30/09 at 3:55 pm

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