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Jews invented Hollywood.
While Thomas Edison invented the motion picture camera, immigrant Jewish entrepreneurs (like Sam Goldwyn, Jack and Harry Warner, Louis B. Mayer) created Hollywood. Jews created the three major American television networks, William Paley’s CBS, David Sarnoff’s NBC and Leonard Goldenson’s ABC.
Today about two-thirds of leading TV and movie producers are Jewish.
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Jewish domination of entertainment is little discussed in the mainstream media, which is also dominated by Jews, out of fears of arousing hatred of Jews.
Journalism On Jewish Life
In December 2002, the National Lampoon came out with the spoof The Hollywood Retorter, with Jews in Hollywood as the main joke. Even the L.A. Times, in a news brief, shied away from mentioning the “Jewish” articles. There’re a lot of Jews in Hollywood. Jews in Hollywood, like most Jews in the media, academia and pornography, tend to be secular Jews, rooted neither in Judaism nor in the majority Christian culture.
British journalist William Cash wrote about Hollywood’s Jewish cabal in an October 1994 issue of the British journal Spectator. The article drew hysterical reactions denouncing Cash and the Spectator for anti-Semitism.
William Cash writes:
Los Angeles. The Old Establishment was a club. As small-time professional incest it is probably no worse than, say, public schoolboys in the City (an analogy used by one senior Jewish executive to rebut the charge of Jewish favoritism in Hollywood). Hollywood Jews are not notably religious. ‘ The Wasp replied, ‘I’m trying to look Jewish.’
Jews, always compulsive story-tellers and talented negotiators, are extremely compatible with the executive side of the movie business.
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THE SPECTATOR 5 November 1994
SIR:The total dominance of the American film industry by the Jewish Establishment, past and present, is admirably related by William Cash (Kings of the Deal, 29 October)…Cash illustrates the attempts by the pre-war studio bosses to copy the mores of the old East Coast Establishment, and he notes that this is no longer so.
SIR: William Cash worries about inevitable shrieks of anti-Semitism as a consequence of his anti-Semitism. SIR: William Cash’s article about Jewish influence in Hollywood has caused a great deal of offense and outrage. This language perpetrates the discredited old myth about a Jewish conspiracy and a Jewish monopoly of power which is allegedly used to disadvantage and exclude non-Jews.
Neville Nagler Chief Executive, The Board of Deputies of British Jews London
SIR: The reaction to my article pointing out that Hollywood’s feudal power structure is predominantly Jewish (’Kings of the deal’, 29 October) has been wholly misconstrued. Gabler asserts that the Hollywood Jews practiced ‘reverse discrimination” Those goyim!” That Hollywood is a Jewish-run town, despite only 4% per cent of the country being Jewish, is, indeed, always joked about.
William Cash Woodrow Wilson Drive, Hollywood, California 90046
A recent article in The Spectator has caused consternation in America. Mr. Weinraub appended to these exact extracts from Cash’s article his own comment: ‘Few in Hollywood could recall such an anti-Semitic article in a mainstream publication.’
I suspect he was most offended by William Cash’s remark that the New York Times was the ‘official mouthpiece’ of the new Jewish establishment. Mr. Weinraub’s own article was very well written. Self (after being told, at length, how offended le tout Hollywood was by Mr. Cash’s article): I am quite sensitive to the attitudes of Jews to this sort of thing. Self: Because I am Jewish.
Weinraub: Jews put Jews in gas ovens! The question is whether Jews should be as robustly unparanoic in their response to Cash’s article as Catholics have been to Mount’s deliberately provocative polemic. So: Jews are over-opinionated and money-obsessed. I accept that William Cash’s use of the word ‘cabal’when asking if any such thing existed in Hollywood was unfortunate. LETTERS _______________ THE SPECTATOR 26 November 1994
Arthur J. Magida writes in the Baltimore Jewish Times 11/11/94:
Hollywood movie executives are “outraged” and “disgusted” about an article in the British magazine, The Spectator, that revives a stereotype from the early days of failmmaking that a “Jewish cabal” controls the entertainment industry.
The article by William Cash, a Hollywood correspondent for the British conservative newspaper The Daily Telegraph, describes Jews as “fiercely competitive,” “clannish” “and compulsive storytellers and talented negotiators.” The “invidious and protective culture” they have created in Hollywood denies employment to non-Jews, according to Mr. Cash, who answered in the positive this question that he posed:
Neal Sandberg, former head of the western region of the American Jewish Committee and currently head of AJC’s Pacific Rim Institute, said Mr. Cash’s article was “overstated, even in terms of genteel anti- Semitism. The U.S. film business is almost completely controlled by Jews. Neal Gabler wrote in the 11/13/94 Los Angeles Times:
You call this a power structure!
Ignoring the facts to suit his myth of Jewish control, Cash is in a long tradition of anti-Semites who began smiting Jewish movie executives almost from the moment the Jews entered the film industry in the 1910s.
Jews didn’t subscribe to the same values. Anti-Semitism is as old as the hills. The latest addition comes from William Cash, Hollywood correspondent for Britain’s The Daily Telegraph. He has written an article for another British publication, The Spectator, titled “Kings of the Deal,” asserting that Jews control Hollywood.
Most Hollywood studios are owned either by foreign interests or New York banks. Mr. Cash convicts himself with his own words. The Hollywood hebes, he notes, prefer to wear white socks. Cash even has people in Hollywood trying to pass for Jews. Mr Cash, son of the right-wing Tory MP Bill Cash, claims that Hollywood is controlled by a “Jewish cabal” and suggests that it may operate reverse discrimination against outsiders, including blacks, Wasps and Britons. He characterises Hollywood’s Jewish leaders as vulgar (a “white-sock mediocracy”), “compulsive story-tellers and talented negotiators”.
“Few in Hollywood (can) recall such an anti-Semitic article in a mainstream publication,” wrote Bernard Weinraub, the New York Times’ Hollywood correspondent. Now, if you or I read an article about the Jewish domination of Hollywood, I think we would react sensibly by saying: ”Well, if the Jews are so clever and are so much in charge, how come Hollywood isn’t making any good films these days? Lawson admits that Jews do dominate the entertainment industry but this does not lead to our movie and TV screens filling with Jewish culture.
“Jewish movies - Crossing Delancey, Yentl, Brighton Beach Memoirs - have been relatively few. “In general, Hollywood movies reflect Middle American Christian values.
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