Sports business analyst Darren Rovell took the occasion of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which is the holiest and most solemn day in the Jewish calendar, to post about why people hate Jews.
\n\nAnd most of the comments he received seem to prove him right.
\n\n“As we are in our holiest of days today, we understand that much of the hate we get is because of jealousy,” Rovell wrote on X.
\n\n“We make up fewer than 2% of the American population, but make up 33% of this list released by Forbes today.”
\n\nThe list in question was the Forbes list of the richest people in the world, which can be read in full here.
\n\nAllegations that the Jewish community’s high representation among the richest and most powerful people in the world, relative to their smaller percentage of the population, have been frequently used by antisemites to develop wild and unfounded accusations of conspiracy related to market control, government manipulation, and a general rigging of the affairs of the world to support some supposed master plan that doesn’t pass even the most rudimentary objective academic or historical scrutiny.
\n\nYet, as the responses to Rovell’s post show, these tropes remain alive…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/sports/
