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The Internet today thanks to a whole lot of crap being shared and few people know what to believe. Thankfully, Ground News helps me sort out what everyone is saying to find the truth. Ground News isn't a news outlet. It's an app and website that pulls in related coverage from thousands of news sources so you can see how the same story is being covered across the political spectrum. Every story comes with a breakdown of each source's political bias and ownership, so you can see how these factors affect how they frame the news. For example, let's look at Israel's decision to fire Air Force reservists who don't agree with the war. The left, ever critical of Israel, has several news outlets covering this, while the right has hardly touched it at all. Ultimately, the US is much more preoccupied with internal matters to keep track of what could have major implications for the conflict in Palestine. I really enjoyed their Blindspot feed where you'll find more stories one side is totally ignoring News like this can really change the outcome of elections and the trajectory of this country, but only if we're aware of it. Go to Ground News what if? Or scan my QR code on screen to see what else the mainstream media media isn't showing you. My viewers save 40% on the same plan I use for unlimited access to all their features. Not only would you be supporting my work, you'd also be supporting an independent platform that respects conservative views. Part 1 Genesis for a lot of the early Jewish history, we have basically no other sources and thus indirectly the Bible ends up becoming one of our best best sources. The Jews emerged in the rubble of the dying and degenerate Bronze Age world. Watch my incredible second podcast History 102, if you're interested in hearing more about the Bronze Age, Early Israel or that time period of history. The thing is that the Bronze Age itself is a poorly recorded society in general, with the only records coming from the wealthiest merchants, kings and priests. The Jews were irrelevant desert tribes, so we only even barely have any Egyptian records of them at all. The Egyptians were the only major civilization which cared about the Jews, so that means practically nothing's written on the topic. Secondly, that the Jews emerged from the Dark Age period, which came after the fall of the Bronze Age, which had even worse records. The Bronze Age went through its own equivalent to the fall of Rome called the Bronze Age collapse, in which most of the civilization in the greater Middle east was destroyed in a matter of 20 years for complex reasons. I explain in this text wall what this means is that since there's so little written, we kind to rely on the biblical record up to a certain point. Which isn't that bad since the Bible itself isn't that implausible. Once you get past the symbolic myths in stuff like Genesis, people of Bible derangement and get obsessive over disproving or proving it. Well, I stand by the law of chill vibes, a term I've invented for you should maintain calm unless forced not to. According to the Bible, the Jews started out in Uruk in Mesopotamia, the oldest civilization in the world. Mesopotamian civilization was already in decline with the horrible degeneracies and stupidities that decadence entails. Abraham supposedly lived around 2000 BC and from genetic analysis we know there was a person at that time and place who is a shared Y chromosome from those who claim descent from Abraham. So we've proven the existence of Abraham genetically. I explain this more in the video I'm about to release on Jewish civilization. But the Jews were a sort of breakaway from the dying civilizations of the Fertile Crescent region. I've compared them to the Mormons before, or a strongly co, cohesive, highly strained religious group that moved out into the desert to avoid the old society. The first records we have of a group that could be the Jews were the Hapiru, or an Egyptian term for a class of bandits who lived on Egypt's frontier with modern Israel. They started out as a social class and then over time fused into being an ethnic identity. This fits with the biblical narrative in which the Jews muddled around the desert fringes of the Fertile Crescent, ranging from Iraq west to modern Israel and then ending up in Egypt. Part Exodus. According to the Jewish records, the Jews lived in the Egyptian frontier region as a subjugated nation, which doesn't seem implausible at all given Egypt at this point was a multicultural society with a lot of conquered minorities. According to the Bible, the Jews moved into Egypt to escape famine in the Levant, something which did historically really happen in that era, given Egypt was the region's granary. While the Jewish historian Josephus says that the Jews migrated in under the Semitic Hyksos, conquerors of Egypt, Egypt. Both theories are plausible, but the short answer is that we don't know. The current historiography thinks that the Jews then left Egypt and migrated to Israel before the Bronze Age collapse, which I think is Completely insane due to Egypt's complete military dominance of the entire region. What I think happened instead is that after the void in power that came with the Bronze Age collapse, the Jews left Egypt, invaded into modern Israel then called Canaan. Lots of people today like to say that the book of Exodus is innately unrealistic, which I find silly given how frequent migrations and invasions were by the nomadic desert peoples of which the Jews were one. This era constantly had barbarian migrations with dozens pouring out of just the Arabian desert. The Jews conquered and genocided the region of modern Israel, claiming their earlier habitations centuries before justified their right to rule. They ruled the region as a minority, gradually assimilating and outbreeding the local local population. I'm going to gloss over a huge era of history now, or a 500 year period since there were no migrations involved. But the Jews established a unified kingdom under Solomon and David. Said unified kingdom split into two with the north being Israel and the south being Judea. Jewish monotheism formed over the course of this time period, which over the longer dure of history would turn into one of the most important events ever. Number three, the Babylonian captivity. As time passed, the Jews faced the normal civilizational cycle of a society which settles into the land and grows wealthier, but in the process becomes more stratified, bureaucratic, decadent, weak and stupid. The thing that made the Jews special was the introspection their religion gave them, with generations of prophets saying that if the Jews didn't get their act together, they'd be destroyed by the laws of nature which are not kinds to weakness and immorality. They were correct with the first the Assyrians and then the Babylonians ravaging Israel. This was in the 7th and 6th century BC in which the first great powers to recover from the rubble of the Bronze Age collapse were Mesopotamia or based out of modern Iraq. The Assyrians were the first. Being practically the Nazis of the ancient world, they were a hyper militaristic, brutal, imperialistic society which would literally brag about committing atrocities. They were incredibly harsh to those who resisted and the Jews suffered mightily. Resisting the Assyrians, the Assyrians briefly unified the whole Fertile Crescent region stretching from Egypt to Iran, before collapsing by making too many enemies and running out of men. Out of the rubble of the Assyrian empire came their southern neighbor, the Babylonians, who, unlike the barbaric imperialism of the Assyrians, were marked by their cultural refinement and moral degeneracy. Ironically, they were in fact more brutal to the Jews than the Assyrians were when The Jews kept rebelling, which they had a tendency to do due to thinking of themselves as God's chosen people. The Babylonians literally forcibly migrated a huge part of the Jewish population out of Israel to Babylon to break their spirit. This was a common Babylonian practice in which Babylon became a cosmopolitan global city filled with dozens of conquered nations. More Jews remained in Israel than Babylon. But those who went to Babylon were still a very large component, including most of the ruling class or nobility. The Babylonian captives activity lasting about a lifetime was actually a profoundly seminal moment in the development of Jewish civilization. One of the Jews best traits is that when they face suffering, they use it to improve and learn what they did wrong. For one, we see the codification of the Old Testament into the singular document it is today. Since after the Babylonians destroyed the first temple, the Jews were forced to rely on the scripture in order to maintain their faith. The Jews also became purely monotheistic or only believing in one God, removing any remnants of the old polytheism in order to avoid gods they shared with the Babylonians. The Jews were finally liberated by the Persian conquest of Babylon in the 6th century AD in which Babylon was so degraded they opened the gates to the Persians willingly. The Persians were known as the most humane and enlightened rulers of the ancient world. And their emperor Cyrus was written in the Bible as one of the few Gentiles who got to be an honorary Jew. The Persians let the Jews resettle back in Israel. Although a huge component chose to stay in Babylon in which the Iraq Jews were the biggest population outside Israel throughout the ancient and medieval worlds. Interestingly, Babylonian mysticism had a huge impact on Jewish mysticism or Kabbalah which was to become the dominant force in medieval Jewish culture. The Jews rebuilt the temple under Persian rule. The Roman expulsion. We're going to skip 500 years once again. In the period after the Persian dominance, the Greeks under Alexander the Great conquered the entire Middle Eastern region stretching out out from Macedonia to India. After Alexander's death, the Middle east was split amongst his generals with Israel trading hands first from the Egyptian Ptolemies to the Syrian Seleucids. The Seleucids around the third century BC were more oppressive to the Jews than the earlier Ptolemies trying to ban both circumcision and monotheism. This sparked a Jewish radical revolt called the Maccabees which also surprisingly worked. This is strange since the Jews are one of very few indigenous populations who able to successfully gain independence from Greek colonialism. The Maccabees forced the majority population of Israel to Convert by the sword. And most people of Jewish ancestry today are descendants from the forced conversion under the Maccabees. However, like everyone, the Maccabees grew decadent and were conquered by the Romans who first used puppet governments and then ruled Israel directly. The Jews had a natural tendency to rebel due to their messianic belief that they were God's chosen people and that if they followed God's orders correctly, you would grant them victory against impossible odds. Jewish mystics in the first century AD had constant visions that their Messiah would come to liberate them and allow them to conquer Rome. The thing is that they were right, just not how they thought and they killed that guy. Much like the Babylonians and the Maccabees before the radical Jewish fanatics rebelled against the romans in the first century A.D. this was an incredibly bloody and difficult war. In fact the bloodiest and biggest war of the Pax Romana era, killing over a million people, which is pretty remarkable given Israel's population was only slightly larger than that. The Romans had to keep reconquering Israel only for a few Jews to keep rebelling again and then restart. After a certain amount of wars, the Romans just gave up and mass expelled a majority of Israel's population outside Palestine. The Romans oppressed the Jews, which is kind of remarkable given the Romans were one of the most religiously tolerant empires of the ancient world. The Jews saw their God as innately superior to the false Roman God gods and refused to make any sacrifices to the Roman gods. This was something the Romans could not tolerate for complex cultural reasons. I explain in this text wall the jews were about 13% of the Roman Empire's population or equivalent to the modern black population in America. And much like black Americans, they worked in menial jobs living in their own inner city ghettos. The Jews only became skilled merchants in the medieval period. The Jews had one of the highest birth rate in the Roman Empire due to probably being the most religious people in the empire. Th they had been spilling out of Israel, settling across the eastern Mediterranean for centuries beforehand. The international mostly Greek speaking Jewish population was completely instrumental in creating Christianity which used this diaspora as a way to spread across the entire Mediterranean and known world. Quickly the Romans expelled Jews as far across the Mediterranean as possible settling them intentionally in Spain and South France. Modern Ashkenazi jews are about 40% Mediterranean European ancestors ancestry like Spanish, French and Italian. Since the Roman Empire fell into degeneracy, lots of local women married into the Jewish community since it had more stable family values and community. Meanwhile, the Spanish and North African Jewish populations are almost identical to the original Levantine Jewish population. Jews remain concentrated in the Eastern Mediterranean with the largest population centers being in Egypt, Babylon, Syria's coastal cities, the cities of Greece, Anatolia, Rome and Carth. Basically, if you read the Bible and a city is mentioned, assume it had a large Jewish ghetto population. This era was also completely instrumental in the creation of modern Judaism, in that without the temple, the Jews had to rely on the rabbis who became a hereditary ruling caste as well as the scripture, the Islamic Empire. As the Roman Empire fell, you saw the gradual collapse of classical civilization. And until the Crusade, the torch of civilizational dominance passed over to the Islamic world where under the Prophet Muhammad, the Arabs conquered the largest empire in history up to that point, stretching from Portugal to India. In the early medieval period, Islam was the wealthiest, most technologically advanced, philosophic tolerant civilization in the world. This was the golden age of Islam. The Arabs were a desert herder people who after conquering such an enormous urban empire, relied upon the local populations to govern. This included Greek speaking Christians and Jews. Across the Muslim world, the Muslims treated the Jews more favorably than the Christians, since until around 1000 AD the Christians were a majority of the population of the Muslim world. This was a cause of resentment in Spain for example, where once the Christians reconquered the country, they remembered how the Jews worked with the Muslims against the local Christian population. The Jews operated as strong merchants in the Muslim world, learning their financial abilities in this time period. As an example of this, the Geniza records in medieval Cairo are some of the best records we have of the medieval economy, showing a highly complex system which stretched out to China in the east and Britain in the west. When I briefly went to college for a single year before dropping out of school, my area of speciality was medieval Islam and my last essay was on the medieval Egyptian economy. And so this is a topic I know way too much about and read this text well for my milkshake joke. Islam actually drew enormous influence from Judaism early on, with the Prophet Muhammad being influenced by a large community of Arabian Jews nearby. Part of the reason for the current antipathy between Arabs and Jews is that they have much more in common than they'd like, with both being descendants of Abraham and both being closer to the other religiously than they are to Christianity. There was a mutual admiration and study between Jews and Muslims early on. A Turkish tribe tribe north of the Caucasus called the Khazars converted to Judaism in the early Middle Ages. Ironically, they had practically no relation to real Jews and made the decision as a way to avoid having to rely on either the Christian Byzantines or the Islamic caliphate. By picking a third religion, modern Eastern European Jews have practically no Khazar genetic admixture with the Khazars being practically wiped off the face of the earth, first by the Vikings and then by fellow Turkic step barbarians. I feel like God throws in details, tales like this to see if we even notice how weird they are. Then an event which I call the Islamic Dark Ages occurred, in which after the fall of the Abbasid Caliphate in the 10th century, the Islamic world went through their own event equivalent to the fall of Rome. The Islamic world saw barbarian invasions, social collapse, revolutions, religious wars, and over the course of centuries, Islam went from the most advanced place in the world to a primitive backwater. By the end of the medieval period, the Middle east had half the population it did at the start start. In the late medieval period, the Muslim world became far less nice to the Jews. As the Muslim world lost confidence in its own superiority, it felt the need to take it out on both the Jews and Christians, where in the era around the Black Death, you saw mass genocides against both of those populations in the Middle East. The Ottoman Turks, who came after unifying most of the Muslim world in the early modern period, were actually quite tolerant to the the Jews. In fact, taking millions of Jews in after the Spanish expelled them in the 15th and 16th centuries. We have a letter from the Turkish Caliph mocking the King of Spain for expelling the Jews, saying he would soon grow much wealthier than the Spanish because of it. Even at the start of the 20th century, there was an enormous Jewish population in the Muslim world, although due to the Industrial Revolution, the population growth rate in Europe had far outstripped them numerically. I once went to a formerly entirely Spanish Jewish town which was where the ruins of Troy are in modern Turkey. However, when nationalist governments took over the Islamic world in the aftermath of European colonialism, the Muslims forcibly expelled their Jewish populations, who afterwards fled to Israel. I find it incredibly unfair and shocking that in a Western world that has at different times been obsessed with Jewish discrimination, we've never held the Muslim world accountable for the mass expulsions of Jews which occurred within living memory. Spain. There were Jews in Spain pretty early in the Roman period, due to Spain being one of the wealthiest and most important regions of the Roman Empire. When the Empire fell, the Germanic barbarian Visigoths took over Spain. They were originally tolerant, but then became incredibly oppressive to the Jews as they tried to forge a unified Spanish identity to combine the many Sub ethnicities and inside Hispania and regional cultures. Alongside molding together the local Roman population with the German conquerors, they used the Jews as a convenient scapegoat in this. This meant that when the Arabs conquered most of Spain, the Jews immediately cooperated with them, working for the Muslims as tax collectors and administrators against the majority Christian local population. The Muslims did discriminate against the Jews, but less so than the Christians. The idea that Muslim Spain was some kind of tolerant multicultural state is a lie. Over the course of the medieval period, the small barbarian kingdoms which survived in the mountains of North Spain were able to reconquer the entire peninsula from the Muslims. The way to see this more so is as the north Spanish conquering and settling the aliens south of Spain. In this process, however, the Spanish made a series of poor decisions that permanently hobbled Spain over its history. The local Muslims In June, Jews were more advanced commercially and culturally than the north Spanish Christians. Thus, as the Christians tried to colonize the south, they would purposely dispossess advanced Muslim farmers from the countryside and hurt the commercialized economy which was Muslim and Jewish coded. The Spanish purposely retarded their own economic and social development for this reason. Which is why Spain, and by extension Latin America have struggled so much with science, the industrial revolution and free thought, which kept the Hispanic cultural region region in a medieval level of development for centuries past. When the rest of Western Europe moved beyond it. The Spanish finally reconquered the final Muslim kingdom of Granada in 1492, or the same year as they discovered the New World. The Spanish government purposely prioritized unity and homogeneity over creativity, creating the Spanish Inquisition to keep track of the former Muslim and Jewish population regulations. The Inquisition was not as nearly bad as people make it out to be in sheer amount of people it killed. But it throttled the region's creativity in a very profound way. Over the course of the 15th and 16th centuries, the Spanish forcibly expelled the remaining Jews, most of whom went to the Turkish empire. But some went north to the Netherlands or France. The Jews who converted did better than the Christians, which created a culture of suspicion and envy. The Spanish purity spiraled over having pure blood, even long after people had converted to Christianity. People like to say that this Spanish nation building allowed the vigor which created the global spanning Spanish empire, which at one point had colonies on every continent on earth, imprinting itself from New Mexico to Patagonia. The thing is, that's partly true. But many West European nations also had large colonial empires without the Inquisition, while at the same time this throttled Spain's development as a society long term, which is why by the year 1700, the Spanish Empire was seen as a joke or the sick man of Europe. Europe which other neighboring countries vied to divide up. In short terms, the Inquisition and the treatment of the Jews and the Muslims helped Spain unify as a country in the short term at the expense of practically their soul or ability to innovate in the long term. Part 7 Western Europe in the year 1000 AD, most Jews lived within the Muslim world. However, there was a legacy population in the south of France which stretched up the Rhone river to Dijon, then reaching the former Roman forts along the Rhine river. Starting around 1000, the great Asian civilization started to fossilize, while at the same time Europe started to experience an unprecedented millennium of excellence. As Western Europe developed, Jews migrated there to partake in the growing commercial economy. The West Europeans, or as they were called at the time Franks, were originally quite supportive of the Jews. There wasn't much anti Semitism and we even have records of a few Frankish noblemen converting to Judaism, seeing it as a higher culture. However, as Western Europe developed more and started to form more of its own civilizational identity around Christendom, you saw mass purges of the local Jewish population. An example of this being the butchering of the Jewish populations in the German rhinelands during the First Crusade. In the 11th century, the Jews lived in their own ethnic ghettos in the cities, split off from the majority Christian populations engaging in commerce since they were not allowed to own land. The Jews were also the first bankers, given the Christian rulers at the time banned usury between Christians. This was the general pattern across this whole era, including the Muslim world. What happened though is that by the time we get to the 13th century, anything the Jews did between goldsmithing, banking or trading was something that the West Europeans, especially the Italians, could do just as well. Once we get to the early 14th century, Europe was experiencing acute overpopulation while its ruling governments were on the verge of collapse due to secular cycle reasons very comparable to what seeing today Western European governments hit an incentive in which they had zero reason to not expel the Jews, given the kings could just take their money, not have to pay off their debts, while appearing good to their own anti Semitic populations. Ironically, and this general pattern across history is that the monarchs were more sympathetic to the Jews, who they saw as a useful tax base, while local nationalistic priests and noblemen were anti Semitic, partly as a way to increase their social status. Myths spread across Europe that the Jews ate children and Cavorted with the devil. You saw the rise of directly humiliating anti Semitic laws, including a city in Italy which forced Jews to run naked every year around a track and not get killed by a bull. As times got tough and the population became more anti Semitic, every major government in Western Europe, whether England, France or modern Germany, mass evicted the Jews. In the early 14th century, several locations, including Rome or Venice, kept Jewish ghettos walled off from the local population. In fact, the word ghetto itself stems from the medieval Jewish Roman ghetto. The thing is that from the West European perspective, there was no reason to keep the Jews since their own people could provide the same services without any of the costs of trusting an alien religious group. This meant that the Ashkenazi Jews experienced a huge genetic bottleneck in which most of them died and weren't able to make it to their new homes in Eastern Europe. The term Ashkenazi stems from Germany, in which most European Jews came from there originally. We see that in the genetics of Ashkenazi Jews, who have one of the smallest genetic pools of any population. Due to this, combined with no outbreeding once they reached Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe in the late medieval period, Jews settled across Eastern Europe to escape the expulsions from the West. Eastern Europe then bears very little resemblance to what it is today. In which, rather than being a homogenous, declining statist culture, Eastern Europe was a sort of Wild West. In this time, Eastern Europe was actually a freer society than Western Europe and Poland. Lithuania, where a majority of Jews in the world lived for a few centuries, was literally the most democratic country in the world. The governments of Eastern Europe willingly imported immigrants from elsewhere, including not just the Jews, but also Germans, Armenians, Greeks and other groups. This was since the local Slavic population was largely primitive and they used these as merchants or administrators. In Poland's Lithuania, which became more tyrannical over time, the Jews were used as tax collectors, bankers and other unpopular jobs so that the ruling nobility could keep their hands clean as they oppressed the majority serf populations. Eastern Europe gradually settled into this oppressive serf society, and due to being the middlemen, the Jews were one of wealthiest the groups. This attracted enormous envy on the part of the majority Slavic populations, whom the Jews saw with contempt as stupid. The Jews lived in distinct ghettos in which they almost never interacted with the majority populations. These ghettos were functionally theocracies in which every element of life was regulated by religious custom. Life in these ghettos was centuries behind those in Western Europe. This sense of mutual suspicion between the local populations and the Jewish migrants Later boiled over into nasty discrimination for the Jews on the part of ruling governments, Namely the Russian czars, who oppressed the Jews more so than any other regime in history. That is, accepting the obvious number one. As said before, tsarist Russia was incredibly oppressive to the Jews, which, as the Russians gradually cannibalized Poland's Lithuania, they became the country with the most Jews in the world. Almost every element of a Jew's life was regulated first by his religious authorities and then secondarily by the state in tsarist Russia, Even in which the Russians said Jews could only live in certain regions, including the Pale in modern western Ukraine, where they were allowed to own land. The historian Paul Johnson has argued that a lot of the Jewish revolutionary spirit seen in the west stems from the oppression seen under the czars. Likewise, is it any surprise that the communist revolutionaries who tore down the czars were vastly, disproportionately Jewish? Eastern Europe experienced overpopulation in the early 20th century, which culminated in the horrors of the World wars. This also fits a pattern in which the region was experiencing the rise of enormous nationalism in which the Jews were a convenient scapegoat. An ironic thing here is that the Industrial revolution radically increased antisemitism, not diminishing it. The Jews saw very rapid population growth which spilled into migration into Western Europe or the Americas, as we'll talk about next. It also caused Jewish political radicalism, which made them distrusted by local nationalists. Although many Jews did try very hard to assimilate and be loyal to their host countries. Both of the twin great totalitarians of Hitler and Stalin were vociferously anti Semitic. Since the Jews were a creative, international, mercantile people, which is the greatest nightmare of the conformist totalitarian regime. We all know how Hitler killed most of European Jewry in the Holocaust. I might make a video in the future going through the evidence, if you folks are interested. But I mean, we have confessions from the Germans that the Holocaust happened, as well as detailed records of how and why they did it, including the train and murder facilities involved. The 20th century is absurdly well recorded. On top of this, we have Soviet and American records of finding these camps, which they recorded scrupulously to prove to future generations that the Holocaust happened. There are literally several million less Jews in the world today than there were a century ago. For a reason, which is something that should be statistically impossible since the world has five times the total population it did a century ago. Eastern Europe went from the place in which a majority of the world's Jews lived to A place with practically no Jews today due to a combination of the whole Holocaust with migration to America or Israel, the local populations in the conquered German Reich's Eastern European possessions were largely not sympathetic to the Jews and cheered on their murders. Meanwhile, ironically, although Soviet Communism was in many ways founded by Jews on a vastly disproportionate basis, they themselves got butchered by the thugs who concentrated the power. Stalinist Russia became incredibly anti Semitic as time passed. Stalin started to persecute the Jews and before his death even planned to genocide the Jewish Jewish population in the same way the Soviets genocided many other ethnic minorities, whether the Russian Germans, Chechens, Koreans, Cossacks, amongst others. By the time we get to 1960, almost no Jews were left in Eastern Europe as they had fled elsewhere. Part 9America I find it strange America today is the country with the second most highest number of Jews in the world today, given we are on a completely different continent from anywhere close to Israel today, almost all Jews in the world are concentrating in either America or Israel, which have both roughly half the population. It does fit the pattern that the Jews head to the frontiers which need their skills and then sadly, what normally happens over time is that as the frontier fills up, they expel the Jews once they no longer need their skills. There was a mass Jewish migration out of Eastern Europe in the early 20th century, partly to escape the oppressive nationalist governments and also to let out pressure from their enormous population explosion. The musical Fiddler on the Roof is a sort of humorous look at this era of history. Alongside Thomas Sowell as the best author on this topic, you should see the migration to the newly liberal West European nations which had reopened religious tolerant as a side effect of the Enlightenment alongside the mass migration to America which dwarfed it in size. Both America and Western Europe Europe had small pre established Sephardic or German Jewish populations which were highly assimilated and educated. They universally disliked the waves of Ashkenazi migration from the shtetls of Eastern Europe whom they saw as barbarians who would make them look bad. This was an era in which America was experiencing enormous migration from Europe due to having an enormous open space from the frontier we were trying to fill up. The Jews were one of the smaller groups in this migration being dwarfed by migrants from Germany, Italy, Britain or Ireland. The Jews could migrate due to the rise of steamships and railroads which had radically lowered the cost of travel, opening up America to settlement from regions besides the northwest of Europe. The Jews settled almost entirely in the American northeast, especially concentrating around New York City. Today jews are around 1% of America's population and peaked a little bit above 2%. So they're tiny by any scale standard. Later on, Jews migrated across America with a settlement in Chicago. But Jews also seemed to be attracted to warm weather and Latins for some reason concentrating in Los Angeles and Miami. Jews in America tend to concentrate in several small areas with most regions of America having practically no Jews. Most American Jews became very culturally liberal, Effectively surrendering the Jewish religion and becoming part of the progressive monoculture. If you meet most American Jews today, their identity is more so being leftist and modernist than Jewish per se. Although much like other groups of white Americans who have assimilated, and I say this as an anthropologist, there are still significant distinguishing cultural features. The Jews started out almost universally poor, working menial jobs, much like the Italian or Irish immigrants in the American Northeast at the time. However, due to a social structure stemming back millennia in which their ruling class of rabbis based their power off education, the Jews put an inordinate focus on education, were able to, much like East Asians. This played very heavily in their favor in that with the World Wars, America switched to a society in which the ruling class were chosen by college degree. Although the colleges originally discriminated against the Jews, the Jews became vastly disproportionate in America's top schools, A process which occurred around the time of World War II. The Jews were able to rise to many of the top of America's preeminent industries, Whether the media, banking and and others. It is true that the Jews are vastly disproportionate in elite positions for their population size, which is partly due to skills they've spent thousands of years cultivating as well as frankly nepotism which Anglo American culture has an aversion to. Keep in mind that it's pretty normal for small driven minorities to rise to the top of industries in America. We've seen this before with the Quakers dominating the Industrial Revolution and early banking Yankees on higher education or Greeks having a stranglehold on the restaurant business. Look to Southeast Asia where the Chinese have a near complete domination of capital While only being a few percentage points of the population and incredibly discriminated. Something that often goes unstated here is that although the Jews are vastly disproportionate, given they're just a little over 1% of America's total population population, they are not dominant or a plurality in practically anything. For example, in the field people talk about a lot for being Jewish dominated. Banking Jews make up only about a third of top bank leadership being vastly outnumbered by gentiles. And I say this because one of my areas of obsession is American anthropology. But in practically any single statistic you'll pick, whether in population, genetics, legal, leadership, tech, government, whatever, English Americans will practically always be the plurality because they make up around a third of America's genetics. The Jews have built up resentment in America for reasons comparable to other places, in that the Jews have pushed for social progressivism on a disproportionate basis. However, they do have an active interest to do so due to so frequently being discriminated against by nationalist governments. The Israel lobby has an enormous power, but frankly, so do many other lobbyists people don't care about which are also throttling America, whether the medical industry, real estate, Saudi Arabia or China. Jewish value structures work differently than Western, which creates complications. I'm going to explain in the next video I'm releasing. However, it's important to realize that the Jews are disproportionate in practically everything, including far right. So you shouldn't see a clear line from just Jewish culture to leftism. Israel with the rise of nationalism at the start of the 20th century, which impacted the Jewish nation as much as any other, there was this desire both on the part of Jews and the local populations for the Jews to self assort into their own nation in order to avoid the complications right related to their long history of diaspora living in foreign lands. Ironically, Zionists frequently worked with antisemites since they often have convergent interests. It's similar to how the Black Panthers and the KKK have worked together before because they both support segregation. Napoleon once said that if the Jews could unify into a single nation, they would be truly great. But their power was weakened by disunity. Zionists, which is a phrase I hate because it feels so overused and weird. Weird context like you can't say neoliberal anymore. Looked in many different places for the possibility of a new Jewish homeland. One option was Madagascar, another Kenya, beyond the Urals, in Siberia, or even Alaska. Potentially these all make interesting alternate histories. But starting in the late 19th century, Jews started to settle in the former homeland of Palestine, which was under Turkish governance, who by this point had been settled by Arabs for thousands years of of years. Palestine was conquered by the British in World War I, which allowed further Jewish settlement. But the really seminal moment was that the horrors of the Holocaust created a cultural moment in which Western civilization felt a moral panic about the dangers of anti Semitism. Thus the British gave the Jews a region of land in modern Israel and The Arabs. Another neighboring one, the British, had a policy of giving former colonies purposely absurd borders to keep them weak. And the borders between these two were torturous. This then erupted into a series of wars lasting from the 40s to the 70s. The neighboring Arab countries aided the Palestinians and were quite sympathetic to them. This makes their defeat even more embarrassing in that each time the Jews were able to defeat the Arabs, outnumbered on a vast military basis, taking on countries of vastly larger size, like Egypt. The Jews proved then that they weren't just a nation of shopkeepers, but had masculine virility. This has provoked an internal international controversy about whether the Jews or Palestinians deserve the land. I don't really care since this isn't my problem. The only justice on this earth comes from the end of a sword and believing anything else is silly and delusional. The borders of the world are colored red with blood. And to ignore that is to ignore life. Life is a brutal Darwinistic jungle where the strong crush the weak. Hey man, I don't make up the rules. I'm just here to tell you the truth. We got to conquer the Native Americans and take their land. So the Jews also get the of rid right of conquest. Easy. Next. If the Palestinians retake their land, it'll be heroic and based for them. However, this is still not my problem. I hold the law of chill vibes and that I refuse to care about anything. I'm not forced to. Israel formed the only successful democratic industrialized regime in the region, surrounded frequently by unstable failed states. It's a tiny region the size of New Jersey that massively punches above its weight. The constant threat of instability in war has kept both the Jewish and Palestinian birth rates artificially high. In a battle of wombs, this has come at the cost of the conquered local Palestinian population. But to be blunt, the Palestinians can live in a Jewish state and it's not true the other way in any way you could make up. There's a war going on now as the American empire grows weaker, in which the population of Gaza rebelled against the Jews. Cool. We've hit the present date. Now let's see what happens next. Peace.
