How Jewish is Hollywood?

[Æmeric]

I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.

How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.

The person they were yelling at in that ad was SAG President Alan Rosenberg (take a guess). The scathing rebuttal to the ad was written by entertainment super-agent Ari Emanuel (Jew with Israeli parents) on the Huffington Post, which is owned by Arianna Huffington (not Jewish and has never worked in Hollywood.)

The Jews are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Jews. The sixth, AMC President Charlie Collier, turned out to be Jewish.

As a proud Jew, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood. Without us, you'd be flipping between "The 700 Club" and "Davey and Goliath" on TV all day.

So I've taken it upon myself to re-convince America that Jews run Hollywood by launching a public relations campaign, because that's what we do best. I'm weighing several slogans, including: "Hollywood: More Jewish than ever!"; "Hollywood: From the people who brought you the Bible"; and "Hollywood: If you enjoy TV and movies, then you probably like Jews after all."

I called ADL Chairman Abe Foxman, who was in Santiago, Chile, where, he told me to my dismay, he was not hunting Nazis. He dismissed my whole proposition, saying that the number of people who think Jews run Hollywood is still too high. The ADL poll, he pointed out, showed that 59% of Americans think Hollywood execs "do not share the religious and moral values of most Americans," and 43% think the entertainment industry is waging an organized campaign to "weaken the influence of religious values in this country."

That's a sinister canard, Foxman said. "It means they think Jews

meet at Canter's Deli on Friday mornings to decide what's best for the Jews." Foxman's argument made me rethink: I have to eat at Canter's more often.

"That's a very dangerous phrase, 'Jews control Hollywood.' What is true is that there are a lot of Jews in Hollywood," he said. Instead of "control," Foxman would prefer people say that many executives in the industry "happen to be Jewish," as in "all eight major film studios are run by men who happen to be Jewish."

But Foxman said he is proud of the accomplishments of American Jews. "I think Jews are disproportionately represented in the creative industry. They're disproportionate as lawyers and probably medicine here as well," he said. He argues that this does not mean that Jews make pro-Jewish movies any more than they do pro-Jewish surgery. Though other countries, I've noticed, aren't so big on circumcision.

I appreciate Foxman's concerns. And maybe my life spent in a New Jersey-New York/Bay Area-L.A. pro-Semitic cocoon has left me naive. But I don't care if Americans think we're running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government. I just care that we get to keep running them.

jstein@latimescolumnists.com

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[Beorn]

I can't believe anyone would not think Hollywood was Jewish!

I have just finished watching 'Tropic Thunder' and the directors and co directors were Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, and Etan Cohen.

There's three right there

[Absinthe]

Hollywood is perhaps the most openly Jewish-dominated industry.

Just take a quick look into the most prominent actors, directors and producers and you'll see that practically every single one of them has Jewish ancestry.

Consider how many dozens of movies about the Holocaust have been made over the last decades, and also how people like Mel Gibson are bullied and threatened for making a historical movie about the role of Judeans in the crucifixion of Christ.

But it's not a political matter altogether. It's the lifestyle, the glamour and the materialist worldview that Hollywood promotes, that has kept the whole world spellbound and acting accordingly.

That been said, I do watch and enjoy some Hollywood movies, I just don't take them seriously, having all the above in mind.

[TheGreatest]

I can't believe anyone would not think Hollywood was Jewish!

I have just finished watching 'Tropic Thunder' and the directors and co directors were Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, and Etan Cohen.

There's three right there

And we all know it's because Jews are smarter than us! Only they can make a good scripts and good movies! (Sarcasm).
I find Jewish movies to be horrible, most of them stink of the same slap stick humor that never changes. And most of the better Jewish directors (I.E. Spielberg) don't even write their own scripts.


You will find it's no different in the musical industry. Sure enough the Jew might be able to play the Piano, but he can't write his own songs.

[Loyalist]

As a proud Jew, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood. Without us, you'd be flipping between "The 700 Club" and "Davey and Goliath" on TV all day.

The idea that Jews have somehow enriched our cultural life by seizing control of the media couldn't be further from the truth. Under their watch, film and television have been inundated with needless, sadistic violence, pornography, drug use, materialism, constant endorsements of liberalism and multiculturalism, and, of course, the mandatory token Jew in every production. No real creativity or thought is put into any material, but instead dull trash is spewed out regularly to keep shallow, uninformed viewers content for another week.

European entertainment in centuries gone by relied upon high-quality written works presented in plays, with no need for over-the-top imagery or theatrics, and usually with some moral, nationalistic, or other undertone pertinent to the people it concerned. The theatre was one of the primary physical outlets of indigenous European culture. It's only natural, then, for the Jews to do what they do best; undermine tradition, destroy culture, tear out everything by the roots and replace it with the modern, faceless cesspool of immorality that is the Hollywood of today.

[Ariets]

why should anybody cares if its Jewish or not?

[Oresai]

Well, here in Britain at least, the media has a huge effect on the minds and behaviour of young people.
It shouldn`t be so, I believe, but it sadly is. Lost count of the number of conversations online I`ve seen in which a teen is so caught up in a specific movie it rules their life!
So it pays to be aware of the sources behind those movies and programmes, and any possible hidden or otherwise agendas in creating them.

[Æmeric]

why should anybody cares if its Jewish or not?

Would you care if Jews controlled popular culture in Poland? Jews use to be a pretty large & influencial community in Poland, before they packed up & went to the US.

[Ariets]

Would you care if Jews controlled popular culture in Poland? Jews use to be a pretty large & influencial community in Poland, before they packed up & went to the US.

Im not big fan of conspiracy theories, rather more about reality.

Jews ware very influential commies in Poland if going by politics, but not by anything more.

[Æmeric]

But Jews controlling Hollywood or having 13 out of 100 members of the US Senate Jewish is reality, not a conspiracy theory.