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July 24, 2008 | 7:35 pm

‘Why do people think Jews run Hollywood?’

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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My colleague Danielle Berrin asked that question last week of Irv Weintraub, COO of the William Morris Agency. His response:

“I’m not sure I want to answer that question.”

I will. People “think Jews run Hollywood” because it gives folks like Bill Donahue a big bulls-eye for shotgunning blame for the degradation of moral values. “Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular ... I like families.  I like children.  They like abortions,” is my favorite utterance from the Catholic League leader.

More cynically, those who consider their communities victims of Hollywood need villains. And Jews have always been an easy target. It doesn’t help that there are, in fact, a disproportionate number of Jews in positions of power in the entertainment industry; there also are a disproportionate number among the bottom feeders just scraping by.

Why?

Weintraub went on to say he was no historian but suggested that maybe—just maybe—Jews were drawn to the arts because of a penchant for creativity. I’d say a bit more emphatically that, Yes, Jews have a 3,000-year history of story telling, a skillset that comes in quite handy in Hollywood. The clearest example of this, obviously, is the Bible, followed, though not too closely, by “The Big Lebowski.”

Based on this tradition, and the fact that the movie business was originally an immigrant industry, it should be no surprise that there is a strong Jewish presence in Tinseltown. Here is how I explained this phenomenon last month in a sarcastically headlined post “Yes, Virginia, there is a Jewish media conspiracy.”

Today’s Hollywood Jews are familial and cultural heirs to the town their ancestors built. Neal Gabler recognized that with his definitive 1988 book “An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood.” This was not an anti-Semitic text, but a keenly observant cultural history. The big difference between Gabler’s book and, say, those of Kevin MacDonald, is that one offers telling portraits of a peculiar phenomenon while the other blames the protagonists for a conspiracy to corrupt American attitudes.

There is no Jewish plot to control our minds through entertaining, godless propaganda; there is an ancient affinity for telling stories. And, as I’ve mentioned before: If Jews really worked in media to get out a unified message at the expense of their gentile neighbors, they sure do a poor job.

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It doesn’t matter who runs an industry, but if those people run the press which pushed us into an incredible stupid war in Iraq are “semites” and we already know that ethnical cleansing, genocide takes place in Palestine and GAZA is practical partly like the Warsaw Ghetto than we have to change the ownership.

Great trick! Murder people and call the victims and their defenders: terrorists.

Comment by Guenter Monkowski on 7/27/08 at 3:34 am

it matter because only 3 million of the 500 million people in the U.S. are Jewish. Most of Hollywood’s film companies, actors, actresses, and media industries are run pre-dominantly by people of Jewish descent. What does that tell us, nothing. It just tells us that if you are Jewish and wish to pursue a carreer in Hollywood that you have mad connections ha.

Comment by Nemo on 5/25/09 at 7:23 pm

Well, it seems accurate to say that the business side of Hollywood is primarily run by Jews - just look how many last names end in -stein, -berg, or -ski. I don’t think it is the fact that Jews are necessarily more creative. I think that they have acute acumen for the conduction of business, the drive for power, success and control, and the doggedness for dickering and negotiation. As well as the fact they are driven to the profitable, high profile industry of entertainment.

Comment by David on 7/25/09 at 9:07 am

Jews run Hollywood and this is a fact.  How can a city with more than 2 million mexicans have only one or two big hispanics stars.  I know a producer who recently died and he said don’t ever do anything to anyone Jewish becasue they will ruin you.  After researching the facts this is true because they pick and choose who will be the next stars.  Just look at all the new releases and all the young actors are jews.  No matter how good you are a person cannot compete with an industry where favoritism and racism practiced.  I never did believe any of this until I started researchin for myself and found out it was true.  If Hollywood were run by all black or Hispanic it would cause an uproar and you would see the government involved because our government is run mostly by Jews also.  Check this out for yourself and don’t believe me.

Comment by Aztec84 on 12/12/09 at 4:58 am

Anti-Christianity, anti-religion, secular? Now that’s my kind of Jews!

Comment by Frank on 1/16/10 at 10:14 pm

There are only six major studios in Hollywood.  And guess who’s the CEO for each of them—yep, Jewish men. You can look it up.

So technically speaking, Jews do run Hollywood.  This
is no different than saying a black man currently runs America.  And if you ask a black person about this, they will likely embrace this fact. So what’s the fuss about saying Jews run Hollywood?

Comment by Bob Iger on 10/19/10 at 12:10 am

Not sure where you got your info from, but Jews are running Hollywood and they always will.  It’s all over the TV.  Celebs are constantly slipping in little “Jew jokes” and phrases(mazel) on TV and on the big screen. You would literally have be def and blind not to notice.

Everything about a telivision from comercials, reality shows, movies, it’s all about mind control. Do you really think they are not apart of that. Come on people open you eyes. Bob you really should go on You Tube and look at the videos on “subliminal messages”.  You will see the mind control for yourself.

Comment by Candice on 4/19/11 at 8:22 am

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”  Ecclesiastes 1:9 (N.I.V.)  The Hebrew Bible.

Proof that they run Hollywood.

Comment by Fix Me A Sandwich on 6/15/11 at 11:10 am

It could be reasonably argued that Jews have an artistic bent and that particular skill has enabled them to invent the entertainment industry in Hollywood.  But then, we have to look at other segments of our economy, banking and investing and again we find a disproportionate number of Jews.  The entertainment industry and the financial backing required to run it go hand in hand as do the Jewish connections that run both.  Look at the recent financial crash, look who was running all the big investment houses on Wall Street .. look who was cooking the books and with sufficient information they were invited into the ‘inner-sanctum’ to formulate the solution .. it is fanciful to believe that the Jews are not rigging, have always rigged and will continue to rig the machinery of entertainment and banking in addition to other highly lucrative industries, precious metals and diamonds.  Their influence is immeasurable and in my judgment is also destructive and it will continue that way into the future as it is now become an essential cog in industry and commerce .. it will continue to be a tough ride until their influence and stranglehold on our economy is wrestled from them.

Comment by Brendan Ryan on 1/17/12 at 9:20 pm

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