Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

by Emmanuel Acho

I would also argue that it’s not that we’re taking over, it’s that we’re—duh duh duh—over-contributing.III Meaning relative to our tiny population, we’ve, yes, made huge contributions. Jews are just shy of 0.2 percent of the world’s population and yet they are the recipients of 22 percent of Nobel Prizes, plus we have left our mark in finance, law, medicine, media, literature, music, and the arts. I mean, when Oppenheimer (a Jew) and Barbie (invented by a Jew) swept the box offices in 2023, all I could think was Talk about the gamut of Jewish contributions to our country! But not as part of a worldwide Jewish agenda or at the expense or exclusion of anyone else. That’s something we Jews should be very proud of—but again, we try to hide it because the idea of Jews having too much control has been a very, very convenient reason to kill us.