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Part of the answer is simply that a large fraction of the US government is Jewish. E.g. according to the White House, their staff (everything from stenographers

Part of the answer is simply that a large fraction of the US government is Jewish. E.g. according to the White House, their staff (everything from stenographers and secretaries, to labor relations representatives and foreign policy experts) is 32% Jewish (2.4% of US population), 44% ethnic minority (about even with US), and 24% non-Jewish White (55% of US) Sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36119693 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36119693

stonogo 3y ago
...you think that fifty-plus years of foreign policy is because there aren't "enough" non-Jewish white people in the White House at the moment?
- SenAnder 3y ago
  It's unlikely this is a momentary phenomenon. It's hard to find data, but this over-representation is not new. Looking at a single, albeit important, political post, in the 53 years since 1970, the chair of the Federal Reserve has been Jewish for 38 of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_of_the_Federal_Reserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_of_the_Federal_Reserve To not base conclusions on a single data point (maybe the Fed Chair is an outlier), US Jews also contributed 50% of all donations to the Democratic party, and 25% to the Republican party: https://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/US-Jews-contribute-half-of-all-donations-to-the-Democratic-party-468774 https://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/US-Jews-contribute-half-o...
- DrFlipper 3y ago
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ethanbond 3y ago
Nope. It’s eschatological Christians who back Israel. Has nothing to do with protecting Jews and everything to do with evangelical Christians’ end times prophecy. The world’s largest military has made decades of foreign policy decisions in accordance with these people’s doomsday fetish.
- richbell 3y ago
  I'm not sure how you can definitively say "nope". It could just as easily be both, or a third reason.
  - SauciestGNU 3y ago
    Yeah I'm not sure about "nope", but I certainly think it's a mistake to assume Jewish people support Israeli government policies.
    - ethanbond 3y ago
      It’s also a mistake to think the current administration’s White House staffers set decades of defense and foreign aid policy.
      - SenAnder 3y ago
        You seem keen on implying this is limited to "the current administration's staff", but that's just what we happen to have data on. Unless proven otherwise, it's reasonable to assume this over-representation is the rule, not the exception that applies only to the current admin's staff. To support this, see my other comment showing the Federal Reserve chair and political donors exhibit the same over-representation (the donor data is recent, but the Fed chair is since 1970, so it's unlikely this is a new thing that suddenly came out of nowhere): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37465220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37465220 It's not limited to the staff either - of the 26 cabinet positions (including president and vice president) in the Biden White House, 7 are held by Jews (2.4% of US population), and just 6 by gentile Whites (55% of US). One of those 6 is Joe Biden himself, and all 3 of his children married Jews. Sources: https://www.thejc.com/news/world/joe-biden-s-very-jewish-family-1.508420 https://www.thejc.com/news/world/joe-biden-s-very-jewish-fam... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Joe_Biden#Cabinet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Joe_Biden#Cabine...
DrFlipper 3y ago
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stonogo 3y ago

...you think that fifty-plus years of foreign policy is because there aren't "enough" non-Jewish white people in the White House at the moment?

SenAnder 3y ago
It's unlikely this is a momentary phenomenon. It's hard to find data, but this over-representation is not new. Looking at a single, albeit important, political post, in the 53 years since 1970, the chair of the Federal Reserve has been Jewish for 38 of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_of_the_Federal_Reserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_of_the_Federal_Reserve To not base conclusions on a single data point (maybe the Fed Chair is an outlier), US Jews also contributed 50% of all donations to the Democratic party, and 25% to the Republican party: https://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/US-Jews-contribute-half-of-all-donations-to-the-Democratic-party-468774 https://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/US-Jews-contribute-half-o...
DrFlipper 3y ago
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ethanbond 3y ago

Nope. It’s eschatological Christians who back Israel. Has nothing to do with protecting Jews and everything to do with evangelical Christians’ end times prophecy. The world’s largest military has made decades of foreign policy decisions in accordance with these people’s doomsday fetish.

richbell 3y ago
I'm not sure how you can definitively say "nope". It could just as easily be both, or a third reason.
- SauciestGNU 3y ago
  Yeah I'm not sure about "nope", but I certainly think it's a mistake to assume Jewish people support Israeli government policies.
  - ethanbond 3y ago
    It’s also a mistake to think the current administration’s White House staffers set decades of defense and foreign aid policy.
    - SenAnder 3y ago
      You seem keen on implying this is limited to "the current administration's staff", but that's just what we happen to have data on. Unless proven otherwise, it's reasonable to assume this over-representation is the rule, not the exception that applies only to the current admin's staff. To support this, see my other comment showing the Federal Reserve chair and political donors exhibit the same over-representation (the donor data is recent, but the Fed chair is since 1970, so it's unlikely this is a new thing that suddenly came out of nowhere): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37465220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37465220 It's not limited to the staff either - of the 26 cabinet positions (including president and vice president) in the Biden White House, 7 are held by Jews (2.4% of US population), and just 6 by gentile Whites (55% of US). One of those 6 is Joe Biden himself, and all 3 of his children married Jews. Sources: https://www.thejc.com/news/world/joe-biden-s-very-jewish-family-1.508420 https://www.thejc.com/news/world/joe-biden-s-very-jewish-fam... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Joe_Biden#Cabinet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Joe_Biden#Cabine...

DrFlipper 3y ago

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