(Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Jews are circling the wagons after black comedian David Chappelle delivered an opening monologue on Saturday Night Live in which he dared notice the dominating Jewish presence in Hollywood after working there for the last 30 years:
…The Anti-Defamation League was quick to denounce Chappelle’s act, calling it antisemitic. Other prominent Jews have followed suit.
“I was very disturbed to see him speaking, to millions of people, a lot of antisemitic tropes,” Pamela Nadell, a professor at American University who researches antisemitism, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
But Chappelle, who was himself riffing on recent antisemitism controversies involving Kanye West and Kyrie Irving, wasn’t exactly breaking new ground by insinuating that Jews run Hollywood. The trope has been a part of show business since its earliest days — when, in a literal sense, Jews did run Hollywood. Or the studios, anyway.
Nearly every major movie studio was founded in the early 20th century by a group of first-generation secular Jews who immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe. Carl Laemmle (Universal), Adolph Zukor (Paramount), William Fox (Fox), Louis B. Mayer (MGM), and Benjamin Warner (Warner) were all Jewish silver-screen pioneers, laying the groundwork for the size and scale of the industry to follow.
But the industry has diversified greatly in the century since, with studios largely swallowed up by corporate behemoths. And while individual Jews may be overrepresented in an industry that has long welcomed and rewarded them, the rhetorical danger, Nadell said, comes in conflating a large Jewish presence in an industry with ownership and control of that industry.
“Jews remain active in Hollywood in a variety of roles, but it would be impossible to say that they run Hollywood, that they own Hollywood,” she said.
“Whenever the Jews enter into any kind of position where they might have influence over people who are not Jewish, then all of a sudden it’s seen as some kind of conspiracy.”
Conspiracy theories dogged Jews in Hollywood from the industry’s beginning. Because so many Jews were in control in Hollywood in its early years, Joseph Breen, who for decades ran the industry’s Production Code office and tried to make movies palatable to Catholic morality groups, blamed “the Jews” for sneaking sex, violence and moral depravity into the movies.
But their rise to the top of the still-young motion picture industry wasn’t because they were a part of some secretive cabal; it’s because, historians say, Hollywood provided a low barrier to entry for enterprising businessmen, and was lacking the antisemitic guardrails of more established industries.
“There were no social barriers in a business as new and faintly disreputable as the movies were in the early years of [the 20th] century,” historian Neal Gabler writes in his landmark 1988 book “An Empire Of Their Own: How The Jews Invented Hollywood.”
In the book, Gabler notes that the movie business, which evolved out of other professions like vaudeville and the garment industry where Jews had already found a toehold, lacked “the impediments imposed by loftier professions and more firmly entrenched businesses to keep Jews and other undesirables out.”
As such, Jews (particularly recent immigrants) were able to thrive in show business in a way they couldn’t in most other industries. Once they were in, family ties or the general phenomenon of affinity groups often led to them elevating other Jews in the industry: For example, prolific Jewish producer David O. Selznick, whose credits include “Gone With The Wind,” “Rebecca” and a huge string of other hits in the 1930s and ’40s, spent many years at MGM, run by his father-in-law, Louis B. Mayer.
Areas like the film, garment and publishing industries were attractive to Jews, Nadell said, “because there were so many other sectors of the economy where they were barred from.”
But in exchange, Hollywood’s prominent Jews had to effectively extinguish their Jewishness.
Yearning to assimilate into American society, the Jews who ran these studios were beset on all sides by antisemitic invective — first from Christian groups like the Legion of Decency, then by anti-Communist groups, both of whom accused Hollywood’s Jews of conspiring to undermine American society with their loose morals.
As such, the Jewish studio heads largely refrained from making any movies about Jewish themes, or snuffing out antisemitic content even within their own films, or otherwise exerting their influence in any obviously Jewish way, even as many of the Golden Era of Hollywood’s most acclaimed writers and directors (Herman Mankiewicz, Ernst Lubitsch, George Cukor, Billy Wilder) were also Jewish. “Gentleman’s Agreement,” the landmark 1947 film about antisemitism, didn’t have any Jewish producers, directors or major stars (though some of its credited writers were Jewish).
Famously, Hollywood’s Jews also went out of their way to avoid offending Hitler during the Nazi era, continuing to do business with Germany and largely avoiding featuring Nazis as villains in the prewar years.
With the demise of the studio system in the 1960s, Jewish creatives ranging from Mel Brooks to Steven Spielberg to Natalie Portman no longer had to hide their identity from audiences, but instead made it an essential part of their public personas. Earlier this week, in a New York Times interview, Spielberg acknowledged that Hollywood was a welcoming place for Jews when he arrived as a young filmmaker.
“Being Jewish in America is not the same as being Jewish in Hollywood,” he said while promoting “The Fabelmans,” a loose retelling of his own Jewish upbringing. “Being Jewish in Hollywood is like wanting to be in the popular circle and immediately being accepted as I have been in that circle, by a lot of diversity but also by a lot of people who in fact are Jewish.”
Still, such ethnic affinity has often been deemed conspiratorial. “Hollywood is run by Jews” and “owned by Jews,” Marlon Brando declared in a 1996 interview with Larry King, further claiming that Jewish studio executives prevented antisemitic stereotypes from being depicted on screen while allowing stereotypes of every other minority group “because that’s where you circle the wagons around.”
(Despite this outburst, which prompted intense backlash from Jewish groups, Brando was known for having close relationships with Jews and demonstrating a strong understanding of Jewish theology and culture throughout his life, and apparently spoke Yiddish quite well.)
This general air of suspicion around Jews in show business has continued into the modern day, as evidenced by Chappelle and West’s comments. In the tweets that precipitated the collapse of his businesses, West singled out Jewish producers and managers in the entertainment industry he had affiliations with, echoing how believers in antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish control tend to fixate on Jews in leadership positions outside of the public eye.
Ignoring the many industry leaders who are not Jewish, such conspiracy theorists tend to focus on the successful managers and lawyers in Hollywood who are, including Jeremy Zimmer, Ari Emanuel, Allen Grubman — and Harvey Weinstein, whose decades of sexual abuse, scorched-earth targeting of his accusers and eventual downfall are the subject of the new movie “She Said.”
And in a similar fashion to Brando, Chappelle suggested that there is a double standard in talking about ethnic groups, with jokes about Jews being seen as taboo in a way that jokes about Black people and other groups are not: “If they’re Black, then it’s a gang. If they’re Italian, it’s a mob. If they’re Jewish, it’s a coincidence and you should never speak about it.”
At the same time as Jews in and out of the industry are fighting such perceptions, they are also pushing for greater visibility. The unveiling of the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles last year almost entirely omitted Jews from Hollywood’s founding narrative, leading to backlash from Jews in the industry and, ultimately, the guarantee of a new permanent exhibition space focusing on Jews.
And there was one other way in which the Chappelle episode hearkened back to the age-old dynamics of the relationship between Jews and Hollywood: “Saturday Night Live” executive producer Lorne Michaels, who presumably allowed the monologue on the air, is Jewish.
Yes, Lorne Michaels is Jewish, but the writer here fails to mention that prior to the airing of SNL, during rehearsals David Chappelle practiced a different monologue because he knew the real one wouldn’t get past the Jewish censors.
And Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL is being his typical disingenuous self calling Chappelle’s comments antisemitic — ignoring the fact that Abe Foxman, the former head of the ADL, all but admitted that Jews do control Hollywood — and a number of other professions.
In fact, Joel Stein — a writer for the Los Angeles Times — got so tired of hearing his fellow Jews deny they controlled Hollywood that we wrote his 2008 landmark article, “Who Runs Hollywood? C’mon” — in which Stein prodded even Abe Foxman to admit,
“I think Jews are disproportionately represented in the creative industry. They’re disproportionate as lawyers and probably medicine here as well.”
Yes, the old Jewish Hollywood studio system has been replaced by mega-corporations — but those mega-corporations are all headed by Jews — like Disney with Susan Arnold, Bob Iger, and Michael Eisner — something that the writer here conveniently fails to point out.
Don’t take our word for it — the hugely successful Jewish filmmakers — the Coen Brothers — admitted in an interview, “Hollywood has always been largely Jewish…” — but when Jews say this, no one bats an eye because they are proud of that control and success — but they don’t want anyone to see the downside of that control.
And, of course, they use the age-old canard that Jews dominated Hollywood because they couldn’t work in other professions that were “closed” to them — apparently like banking, law, academia, and medicine.
Farming, clearly, was never an option for Jews.
Hollywood was welcoming to young ambitious Jews because it was already Jewish — and favored hiring their co-ethnics, which this article all but admits.
Yes, Hollywood is now — and has been from its beginnings — controlled by Jews — and Jews need to stop trying to gaslight us — and themselves — that they don’t.
Jews think they are so much smarter than “gentiles” — we’re just dumb “goyim” to many of them — but we’re not that dumb…
Good watch on this topic
“Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCQI1k5S8Ew
shows you how Jews founded all the film studios for propaganda reasons, even the american dream is artificial created by them.
“I don’t care if Americans think we’re running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government,” Jewish columnist Joel Stein wrote in Los Angeles Times December 2008.“I just care that we get to keep running them.”
Mr Stein’s reckless candor in admitting that the Jews ran America was to cost him his job at the LA Times.
Jews are often secular progressives with a different world view than Christians. They did essentially invent Hollywood. They still control it and tend to hire their own.
They have not been “victims” for decades. That said, rather than make derisive comments about them and their behaviors and appearance why not simple hold them to the same standard of behavior that they held everyone else? That is: Demand that Jews give equal funding and equal hiring to gentiles. (B& H Photo lawsuits) When they attack Bible Christians like they did with the “Passion” movie, call them bigots. Demand an end to playing the “Holocaust Card”.
With the great power and influence Jews have in the USA comes great responsibility. People like
Zuckerberg have shirked this responsibility and dishonestly and ruthlessly pushed their narrative and business goals. Others like Levin have called these Jews out. Demand equality, diversity of thought, tolerance of other religions and an end to elitism. Do not fall for the easy trap of being resentful such that you “hate Jews”. They are survivors and have “chutzpah”. This helped them survive. It can also be very annoying and unfair. Be calm and call out all unfair, elitist and bigoted behavior wherever you see it. That is a logical argument. Don’t act such that you can be dismissed as an antisemite.
I am an anti-plutocrat, and they are all jews, but not all jews are plutocrats, but a lot of jews work for plutocrates interests ! like corrupt goyim .
I just saw in passing one of those “The Chosen” specials. It starred a guy who looked like Steven Spielberg, very jewy. He was named as David Green, CEO of Hobby Lobby.
Is the “ultra Christian” Hobby Lobby run by a Jew?
(Is there an “elevator pitch” to deprogram people who have seen The Chosen and think that the Israelites were Arabs?)
David Green, the CEO of Hobby Lobby is not a Jew.
He was born in Kansas, the son of a Christian pastor.
Though Green is a common Jewish name (because it’s the color of money, no doubt), it’s also common among non-Jews of English descent.
Being the son of Christian clergy does not guarantee “gentileness”, unfortunately.
Joel Osteen is the son of a pastor as well, but in seeing some of his sermons I have seen him bear an uncanny resemblance to (((Jerry Seinfeld))).
It’s possible that David Green had styled himself like Spielberg coincidentally, my suspicions of his (((status))) were piqued also by his behavior as he was really advocating the agenda of raising funds to translate the Bible into every language, to convert the blacks/browns.
Green was also supporting The Chosen which is to Christianity what “Hamilton” is to American history.
[Yes, Hollywood is now — and has been from its beginnings — controlled by Jews — and Jews need to stop trying to gaslight us — and themselves — that they don’t.]
Well they certainly can’t gaslight me anymore nor think or believe that they control me because BOYCOTTING them and their foul vitriol and vile perversion has been the obedience of the first command in Exodus 20:
he Ten Commandments
20 Then God spoke all these words, saying,
2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of [a]slavery.
3 “You shall have no other gods [b]before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself [c]an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the [d]punishment of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing [e]favor to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Satan’s role is to cause us to sin and he uses his children to do it. BOYCOTT THEM as their judgement does not lay idle. When you become sickened at their activities is step one.
“
Wayne was a Jew and freemason. Probably got more people killed with his warmongering than any other single actor. Analyze virtually any of his movies.
Non stop drunkenness, abject violence, revenge…etc.
All manifest in the extreme these days from jewllyhood. They were a lot sneakier back then than now about disguising anti Christian themes. Try “On Borrowed Time”. Satan is a kindly old gent named Mr. Brink…just come to escort people “into the light”. Meanwhile..Gramps (Lionel Bury More) is corrupting his grandson with cursing and booze. You have to analyze every scene you’re watching with these monsters. They perfected backdoor propaganda a long time ago.
Nada……….
I’m not defending John Wayne, but where is the documentation for his jewish ancestry?
Interesting article — https://forward.com/culture/449798/john-wayne-certainly-had-a-racist-history-does-he-have-a-jewish-one/
Seems to me Wayne aka Morrison, was just another shabbos goy in a long line of them.
Exactly. I agree. Morrison is an Irish name. There is nothing about Wayne’s facial attributes indicating he is Jewish. Of course that doesn’t mean he might have a taint.
Nada….okay so here’s John Wayne’s genealogy going back many generations. Please show us all where the Jews are in the family tree….
http://dukefanclub.weebly.com/john-waynes-genealogy.html
What are you mensches schvitzing about with this “farming was never an option for the jews” mishugguh. Look at all the plantations the jews owned in 1859, then tell me we didnt know how to get a field worker to farm.
“Wars are the Jews’ harvest.”
—Werner Sombart, jewish economist and sociologist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Sombart
Kevin MacDonald quotes Jewish film critic Michael Medved, writing in 1996: ‘it makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most influential production executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names. This prominent Jewish role is obvious to anyone who follows news reports from Tinsel Town or even bothers to read the credits on major movies or television shows.’
Page xlvi here: http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/PrefacePPB.pdf
Medved is the author of ‘Hollywood vs America’.
Joel Stein, that writer for the Los Angeles Times who wrote that article bout Jews controlling Hollywood, was fired less than 2 weeks later for being uppity.
Even Jews are anti-Semitic.
BTW, Israel has been bombing the hell out of Gaza, off & on for over a month, but you won’t see that in the (((MSM))).
Biden, 2013: ‘The truth is that Jewish heritage, Jewish culture, Jewish values are such an essential part of who we are that it’s fair to say that Jewish heritage is American heritage.’
‘I bet you 85 percent of those changes [he mentions immigration, civil rights, gay marriage], whether it’s in Hollywood or social media are a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry. The influence is immense, the influence is immense. And, I might add, it is all to the good.’
https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2013/05/biden-jewish-heritage-is-american-heritage-164525
Just my opinion — I do not believe the producers were blindsided. I believe this monolog was approved.
The monolog was a Cartoonization of the JQ. It reinforced the holocaust narrative and marginalized and even ridiculed those who deny it.
“…..ironically, Adidas was founded by nazis and even they were offended……”
This whole thing is just tactics — controlling the narrative.
Like putting Alex Jones in to control 9-11.
But hey — if only ONE White person wakes up and gives their life to Jesus, it’s all worth it.
The article points out that starting in the 1960s, Jews in Hollywood didn’t have to continue to hide their Jewish backgrounds by changing their names.
This alone is proof that by that time, Jewish control had reached a point that they no longer had to hide their identities, and this is true of society in general.
There will come a time when Jews will pull back the curtain, when no one can oppose them, and show us all that they rule every aspect of our nations.
They look forward to this moment when they no longer have to deny their power, wealth, and control.
They know we know, but they also still fear when we speak of their power openly because it could all come crashing down on their heads at a moment’s notice.
They know that their stranglehold on power endangers them because we will hold them accountable, and they just don’t want to be held accountable, which is why they deny their own obvious power.
Yep, and in the 1960s Jews replaced our traditional lead actors like John Wayne and Lee Marvin with weak, unattractive, sniveling Jews like Dustin Hoffman, George Segal, and Elliot Gould who redefined masculinity which ultimately led to the anti-hero as hero.
One of the prominent Jewish directors of the 1960s counter-culture, Bob Rafelson, died. He directed the anti-American cult film, “Easy Rider” which demonized reactionary white America as bigoted and hateful. Rafelson was the first director to give Jack Nicholson starring roles and made him a household name.
Hard to argue that Jews haven’t also dominated the post-studio Hollywood system:
https://www.thejc.com/news/news/obituary-bob-rafelson-6KeU256cFSRQYcEs2KGBDI
“They look forward to this moment when they no longer have to deny their power, wealth, and control.”
I agree. One has to wonder if all of these mainstream media revelations that the jews run everything is really just a part of their game of revealing themselves as the “master race.” Even though they are denouncing it as “anti-semetic” it still serves a greater purpose I imagine.
Before sodomite marriage became law, I distinctly remember even democratic politicians denouncing it and saying it would never happen. But here we are, gay marriage is now considered legal. Back in the 1970s and earlier, most people didn’t know what the word “pedophile” even meant. Now we do. Pedophilia is a topic that is now on the table to discuss. All the while the public is being gradually initiated into accepting it.
This is how the process begins. The jew or reprobate subtly introduces a topic contrary to God’s law and eventually it becomes legalized. The most difficult part of the process is introducing it to the public. Once introduced, the public is gradually worn down and made to accept it. The jew media is engaged in mass mind control against Adamic man, and has been for a very long time.
They see themselves as “repairers of the world”…there is a talmudic term for this that escapes me. They aren’t waiting for a messiah, they believe they are the messiah and they are attempting to dissolve creation into “oneness” racially and even morally. Evil is Good/Good is evil. They have to invert God’s law in order to make their new world emerge. By the looks of things, they have come a long way.
here in germany (+france) they thought they could use the moslems against white aryans . maybe they are mistaken !
even arsoning Notre Dame + Bataclan massacre did not fire the impulse Mossad wanted!