Jewish Lives Matter MORE

First let me say that millions of Jews, perhaps hundreds of millions of Jews (if we count their descendants,) have been integrated into the general populations, particularly in the Middle East and what we call the West. Through assimilation and forced conversion Jews have been integrated into the general population in incalculable numbers. We could prove that through generalized DNA testing. We cannot identify what contributions they have made to the public good without great difficulty.

But where Jews have retained their identity such things can be better evaluated.

We all know the story about the presence of Jewish principals among the Nobel laureates out of all proportion to Jewish numbers in the world. We need only examine the rise of Jews to positions of prominence in the West when they began to leave the ghettos as Middle Ages restrictions began to disappear. We have heard stories of Jews rising to positions of importance even in the Middle East in spite of religious intolerance in that region.

We can examine the public record in America and even in Europe, particularly in pre-Hitler Europe. It is no secret that even before these times Jews were valued as immigrants to help stimulate business activity in moribund economies.

We can look around us in North America, where there was less opposition to Jewish integration than in Europe, and count the record of Jews in business, the sciences, education, medicine, and even entertainment. They are there out of all proportion to Jewish numbers in the population. We have made less of a splash among the criminal elements, but even there we have a few stars. Is it a coincidence that the leader of Pfizer, the company that rapidly produced the most widely used, and the most effective, vaccine for COVID-19, was a Jew?