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Hollywood’s Privileged Jews
Benjamin Kerstein
November 13, 2026

…Sadly, not just Hollywood but many of the Hollywood Jews are in a bad way as well. Like innumerable American Jews of the second, third, and fourth generation, non-privilege is foreign to them. Through their ancestors’ suffering and success, they have become Jews of Privilege, with all the attendant flaws and discontents. Like all Jews of Privilege, they are highly assimilated, with an emasculated Jewish identity and a dangerous sense of being emancipated from the fate of their people. Insulated from real life by an illusory safety and security, they are divorced from the reality faced by their fellow Jews—and, unknowingly, themselves—and certainly from any but its worst potential consequences, because there have been, thus far, no such consequences for them. They have no sense of the extent to which their privilege is unearned, handed to them by pedigree, prosperity, and impeccable credentials.  They have no compunctions about entertaining and even defending the defamations and derangements of antisemitism. Above all, perhaps, they harbor a deep and abiding contempt for their non-privileged brethren and everything they represent, even though it was precisely those brethren who built the industry and thus the wealth and fame that made them privileged. READ MORE

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