THE FEDERALIST
Campus Intersectionalism Breeds Anti-Semitism Like Chicago ‘Jewish Privilege’ Flyers
by Abraham Miller
March 28, 2017

“ENDING WHITE PRIVILEGE STARTS WITH ENDING JEWISH PRIVILEGE,” screams a flyer distributed on the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois. Based on distorted statistics—which the alleged source, a Pew survey, firmly rejects—the subtext seems to be that what we really should be ending are the Jews. The flyer falsely alleges that 44 percent of Jewish Americans are in the top 1 percent of earners. The threshold for being in the top 1 percent is $465,626, and while perhaps 44 percent of Jewish Americans would like to have achieved that distinction, they haven’t. The flyer’s authors mangled the real fact that 44 percent of Jewish Americans earn more than $100,000 a year. READ MORE