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Do you believe Jews are superior to non-Jews?Commentary April 2007
Jewish Genius
Jews are extravagantly overrepresented in every field of intellectual accomplishment. Why?
by Charles Murray
Since its first issue in 1945, COMMENTARY has published hundreds of articles about Jews and Judaism. As one would expect, they cover just about every important aspect of the topic. But there is a lacuna, and not one involving some obscure bit of Judaica. COMMENTARY has never published a systematic discussion of one of the most obvious topics of all: the extravagant overrepresentation of Jews, relative to their numbers, in the top ranks of the arts, sciences, law, medicine, finance, entrepreneurship, and the media.
I have personal experience with the reluctance of Jews to talk about Jewish accomplishment—my co-author, the late Richard Herrnstein, gently resisted the paragraphs on Jewish IQ that I insisted on putting in The Bell Curve (1994)...
And so this Scots-Irish Gentile from Iowa hereby undertakes to tell the story...
From 1870 to 1950, Jewish representation in literature was four times the number one would expect. In music, five times. In the visual arts, five times. In biology, eight times. In chemistry, six times. In physics, nine times. In mathematics, twelve times. In philosophy, fourteen times.
Disproportionate Jewish accomplishment in the arts and sciences continues to this day. My inventories end with 1950, but many other measures are available, of which the best known is the Nobel Prize. In the first half of the 20th century, despite pervasive and continuing social discrimination against Jews throughout the Western world, despite the retraction of legal rights, and despite the Holocaust, Jews won 14 percent of Nobel Prizes in literature, chemistry, physics, and medicine/physiology. In the second half of the 20th century, when Nobel Prizes began to be awarded to people from all over the world, that figure rose to 29 percent. So far, in the 21st century, it has been 32 percent. Jews constitute about two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population. You do the math.
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Jewish Genius
Jews are extravagantly overrepresented in every field of intellectual accomplishment. Why?www.commentary.org
Must be 99% fire-crackers if they "only" managed to kill 55 people. And among those 55 people there were 32 IDF soldiers.
- 16,400
Rocket fire dominated the year’s violence, with approximately 16,400 rockets crossing into Israel, killing 55 people. The vast majority of rocket attacks, 93% came from Lebanon. Hostile drones also posed a significant threat, with 399 crossing into Israeli territory.
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Not all of them, but they do tend to be more intelligent,Do you believe Jews are superior to non-Jews?
Also the intellectual abilities were schooled in the course of centuries. Today the Jew is looked upon as 'clever,' and in certain sense he has been so at all times.Watch out - Hector12, is just waiting for the chance to quote "Mein Kampf" - so as to proof it to you.
Are some Muslims superior to some Jews?Not all of them, but they do tend to be more intelligent,
They were schooled by Western schools, the very same as those non-Jews attended in far greater numbers.Also the intellectual abilities were schooled in the course of centuries. Today the Jew is looked upon as 'clever,' and in certain sense he has been so at all times.
Adolf Hitler, from Mein Kampf, Volume I, Chapter XI, "Nation and Race"
You believe that the Amnesty International report is a lie?See? Making shit up to justify mass murder and destruction. Just as Nazis did.
Mission accomplished?
Someone has given you false information. Israel's claim to land ownership in Judea dates back 4,000 years. The Palestinians have never been a nation and the Palestinian's claim of ownership of Jewish lands has never been universally recognized.How many of those casualties were a result of the IDF's Hannibal Directive?
IDF ordered Hannibal directive on October 7 to prevent Hamas taking soldiers captive
"There was crazy hysteria, and decisions started being made without verified information': Documents and testimonies obtained by Haaretz reveal the Hannibal operational order, which directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity, was employed at three army facilities infiltrated by Hamas, potentially endangering civilians as well."
Hamas came into existence in response to a brutal, racist occupation Israeli Jews have inflicted on Palestine since 1948.
End the Jewish-supremacist state in Palestine, and Hamas and Hezbollah will end their violent resistance.
Of course, but not most of them.Are some Muslims superior to some Jews?
At what point did the 'nation' of Palestine buy, steal, settle, or seize the property in war they claim belongs to them?What makes Jews so special they can steal Arab land and murder their victims?
https://www.btselem.org/topic/settlements
I grew up hearing details of the Holocaust and some of the previous instances of persecution that Jews have experienced over the past two thousand years.
Now I can see how the actions of a majority of Israeli Jews explain why many of those persecutions happened.
Many Israeli Jews believe they are racially superior to non-Jews; they never were or will be.
Self destruction seems a likely explanation?
There are extremely few terrorists, Muslims and American democrats who believe Trump and BiBi are good leaders.I agree. It is time for him to step down.
Lefties, atheists, degenerates and many democrats do not believe crimes should be severely punished, cops who arrest criminals tend to be racist and evil, and Jews are wicked for defending themselves against bloody violent terrorist attacks.Stating historical facts about Zionist Jews is only acceptable when done without criticism. Stating historical facts that expose the negative aspects gets you labeled antisemitic. We’re all supposed to believe Zionist Jews are wonderful and above reproach, even when they commit some of history’s greatest crimes.
Jews are certainly more civilized than their bloody Arab and Muslim enemies.Do you believe Jews are superior to non-Jews?
How many supporters of Platner also support his adoration for things racist and Nazi?Watch out - Hector12, is just waiting for the chance to quote "Mein Kampf" - so as to proof it to you.
Israel has excellent defenses against hostile rocket attacks, yet some rockets do get through and innocent people are killed. Arabs have been sending unguided rockets into Jewish settlements for decades yet degenerates around the world claim Israel is the wicked aggressor.Must be 99% fire-crackers if they "only" managed to kill 55 people. And among those 55 people there were 32 IDF soldiers.