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Jews run the U.S. media? Mostly Jews in the media and entertainment industry? Now what would ever give you that silly idea?
(see below.....gulp)
 
It's not that this group is Jewish or whatever.....I could care less about their religious preference; but when they act collectively or individually with regard to their support of Israel, especially criminal and racist Israeli government policy, then that's a problem. Why? For a few reasons, not the least of which is hypocrisy: intelligent American Jews certainly do not support racist government policies here or worldwide; so why would an intelligent American Jew support racist Israeli government policies? I think not. Below this list is an article written by a guy who lives and works in California, Abdullah M. Sindi -

How the Jewish-Zionist Grip on American Film and Television Promotes Bias Against Arabs and Muslims

Someone once asked, "Do Jews run the media?" Now what ever gave you that idea? Perhaps the list below explains:

Jews In The American Media

 

MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN, owner of NY Daily News, US News & World Report and chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, one of the largest pro-Israel lobbying groups.

LESLIE MOONVES, president of CBS television, great-nephew of David Ben-Gurion, and co-chair with Norman Ornstein of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton.

JONATHAN MILLER, chair and CEO of AOL division of AOL-Time-Warner

NEIL SHAPIRO, president of NBC News

JEFF GASPIN, Executive Vice-President, Programming, NBC

DAVID WESTIN, president of ABC News

SUMNER REDSTONE, CEO of Viacom, “world’s biggest media giant” (Economist, 11/23/2) owns Viacom cable, CBS and MTVs all over the world, Blockbuster video rentals and Black Entertainment TV.

MICHAEL EISNER, major owner of Walt Disney, Capitol Cities, ABC.

RUPERT MURDOCH, Owner Fox TV, New York Post, London Times, News of the World (Jewish mother)

MEL KARMAZIN, president of CBS

DON HEWITT, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes, CBS

JEFF FAGER, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes II. CBS

DAVID POLTRACK, Executive Vice-President, Research and Planning, CBS

SANDY KRUSHOW, Chair, Fox Entertainment

LLOYD BRAUN, Chair, ABC Entertainment

BARRY MEYER, chair, Warner Bros.

SHERRY LANSING. President of Paramount Communications and Chairman of Paramount Pictures’ Motion Picture Group.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN, CEO. Miramax Films.

BRAD SIEGEL., President, Turner Entertainment.

PETER CHERNIN, second in-command at Rupert Murdoch’s News. Corp., owner of Fox TV

MARTY PERETZ, owner and publisher of the New Republic, which openly identifies itself as pro-Israel. Al Gore credits Marty with being his “mentor.”

ARTHUR O. SULZBERGER, JR., publisher of the NY Times, the Boston Globe and other publications.

WILLIAM SAFIRE, syndicated columnist for the NYT.

TOM FRIEDMAN, syndicated columnist for the NYT.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post. Honored by Honest Reporting.com, website monitoring “anti-Israel media.”

RICHARD COHEN, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post

JEFF JACOBY, syndicated columnist for the Boston Globe

NORMAN ORNSTEIN, American Enterprise Inst., regular columnist for USA Today, news analyst for CBS, and co-chair with Leslie Moonves of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton.

ARIE FLEISCHER, Dubya’s press secretary.

STEPHEN EMERSON, every media outlet’s first choice as an expert on domestic terrorism.

DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN, owner of the Village Voice and the New Times network of “alternative weeklies.”

DENNIS LEIBOWITZ, head of Act II Partners, a media hedge fund

KENNETH POLLACK, for CIA analysts, director of Saban Center for Middle East Policy, writes op-eds in NY Times, New Yorker

BARRY DILLER, chair of USA Interactive, former owner of Universal Entertainment

KENNETH ROTH, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch

RICHARD LEIBNER, runs the N.S. Bienstock talent agency, which represents 600 news personalities such as Dan Rather, Dianne Sawyer and Bill O’Reilly.

TERRY SEMEL, CEO, Yahoo, former chair, Warner Bros.

MARK GOLIN, VP and Creative Director, AOL

WARREN LIEBERFORD, Pres., Warner Bros. Home Video Div. of AOL- TimeWarner

JEFFREY ZUCKER, President of NBC Entertainment

JACK MYERS, NBC, chief.NYT 5.14.2

SANDY GRUSHOW, chair of Fox Entertainment

GAIL BERMAN, president of Fox Entertainment

STEPHEN SPIELBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks

JEFFREY KATZENBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks

DAVID GEFFEN, co-owner of Dreamworks

LLYOD BRAUN, chair of ABC Entertainment

JORDAN LEVIN, president of Warner Bros. Entertainment

MAX MUTCHNICK, co-executive producer of NBC’s “Good Morning Miami”

DAVID KOHAN, co-executive producer of NBC’s “Good Morning Miami”

HOWARD STRINGER, chief of Sony Corp. of America

AMY PASCAL, chair of Columbia Pictures

JOEL KLEIN, chair and CEO of Bertelsmann’s American operations

ROBERT SILLERMAN, founder of Clear Channel Communications

BRIAN GRADEN, president of MTV entertainment

IVAN SEIDENBERG, CEO of Verizon Communications

WOLF BLITZER, host of CNN’s Late Edition

LARRY KING, host of Larry King Live

TED KOPPEL, host of ABC’s Nightline

ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN Reporter

PAULA ZAHN, CNN Host

MIKE WALLACE, Host of CBS, 60 Minutes

BARBARA WALTERS, Host, ABC’s 20-20

MICHAEL LEDEEN, editor of National Review

BRUCE NUSSBAUM, editorial page editor, Business Week

DONALD GRAHAM, Chair and CEO of Newsweek and Washington Post, son of

CATHERINE GRAHAM MEYER, former owner of the Washington Post

HOWARD FINEMAN, Chief Political Columnist, Newsweek

WILLIAM KRISTOL, Editor, Weekly Standard, Exec. Director
Project for a New American Century (PNAC)

RON ROSENTHAL, Managing Editor, San Francisco Chronicle

PHIL BRONSTEIN, Executive Editor, San Francisco Chronicle,

RON OWENS, Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)

JOHN ROTHMAN, Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)

MICHAEL SAVAGE, Talk Show Host, KFSO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco) Syndicated in 100 markets

MICHAEL MEDVED, Talk Show Host, on 124 AM stations

DENNIS PRAGER, Talk Show Host, nationally syndicated from LA. Has Israeli flag on his home page.

BEN WATTENBERG, Moderator, PBS Think Tank.

ANDREW LACK, president of NBC

DANIEL MENAKER, Executive Director, Harper Collins

DAVID REMNICK, Editor, The New Yorker

NICHOLAS LEHMANN, writer, the New York

HENRICK HERTZBERG, Talk of the Town editor, The New Yorker

SAMUEL NEWHOUSE JR, and DONALD NEWHOUSE own Newhouse Publications, includes 26 newspapers in 22 cities; the Conde Nast magazine group, includes The New Yorker; Parade, the Sunday newspaper supplement; American City Business Journals, business newspapers published in more than 30 major cities in America; and interests in cable television programming and cable systems serving 1 million homes.

DONALD NEWHOUSE, chairman of the board of directors, Associated Press.

PETER R KANN, CEO, Wall Street Journal, Barron’s

RALPH J. & BRIAN ROBERTS, Owners, Comcast-ATT Cable TV.

LAWRENCE KIRSHBAUM, CEO, AOL-Time Warner Book Group

http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/jews-in-the-media-hollywood/

Jews on Stage, Screen, Musicians, Artists, Etc.

Stage, Screen, Musicians, Artists, Writers, etc...

Alan Greenspan - Federal Reserve Chairman, His wife, Andrea Mitchell, Is a Jewish NBC NEWS Reporter. Greenspan is also Talented as an Entertainer and Concert Violinist.
Allen, Woody - Comedian, Actor, Director, Producer (real name: Allan Konigsberg)
Army of Lovers (Crucified, Isrealism)
Avital, Mili - Israeli actress (extremely beautiful), U.S. debut: Stargate
Bacall, Lauren - Actress
Barkin, Ellen - Actress
Barr, Roseanne - ComedianBeckham David - Soccer Star, Movie Star, Jewish Grandfather, Lured to Los Angeles Soccer Team in 2007, Highest Sports Salary in History
Beck, Jeff - Guitarist
Becker, Sandy - late children's TV show host
Benatar, Pat - Famous Singer
Benezra, Sonia - Quebecer Talk Show host
Benny, Jack - Benjamin Kubelsky
Berlin, Irving - Composer of "White Christmas"
Berri, Claude - French film director
Biafra, Jello (Singer of American HC punk band Dead Kennedys)
Bialik, Mayim - Actress (Blossom)
Bikel, Theodore - actor / Fiddler on the Roof
Bleeth, Yasmine - Actress -Father Jewish
Bochner, Hart - Actor
Bochner, Lloyd - Canadian Shakespearean Actor, Radio Actor, Film Actor, Cecil Colby on Dynasty, "Naked Gun",  Father of
Hart Bochner
Bonet, Lisa - Ex-Wife of Lenny Kravitz
Borgnine, Ernst (Effron Borgnine) - ActorBoxleitner, Bruce - Actor
Brooks, Albert - Actor, Director (real name: Albert Einstein)
Brooks, Mel - Actor, Director, Comedian, Writer
Bruce, Lenny - Comic
Walter, Bruno - German conductor and student of Gustav Mahler. Had to change his name.
Bullock Sandra - actress [Jewish?]
Cantor, Eddie - Vaudeville Singer, Dancer
Cass, "Mama"
(Liz Cohen)
- an actressChandler, Jeff - Actor
Chapli Charlie - Silent Film Actor, Comedian, Producer, Raconteur
Cherry, Ruben (A man who raised Elvis in public)
Chessle Deborah (Shirley Reingold)
Chomsky, Naom - an American philosopher
Cohen, Leonard -- Bohemian Song Writer
Cocker, Joe - Famous Singer, Israeli/German
Crystal, Billy - Actor, Comedian
Curly - (Jerome) Curly Howard (Horowitz) - One of the StoogesDangerfield, Rodney - Comedian, Actor, Real Name Jack Cohen
Davis, Jr. Sammy - Black Singer, Actor, Dancer (died)Dell'Abate, Gary - Howard Stern's Producer (Baba Booey!)
Denberg Lori Beth - Actress
DeNero Robert - Actor [Jewish Mother]
Deutscher Isaac - Author - Biography of "Stalin"
Douglas Kirk - Actor
Drescher Fran - Actress "The Nanny"
Dreyfus Richard - Actor
Dreyfuss Richard (Oscar Winning Actor)
Duchovny David - Co-Star of the Hit Show The X-Files
Duritz, Adam
lead singer/songwriter for Counting Crows
Dylan, Bob - Musician
Eisen, Rich-- ESPN, Sports Announcer
Escher, M.
C.
- Artist, Explorer of the Infinite
Fagen Donald - Steely Dan - Singer - Composer
Fat Mike - Singer, guitarist and songwriter for NOFX
Feuer, Aaron Neal - Wrestler, Talmud Scholar, Debate Champ
Fierstein, Harvey
- Actor, Writer
Fisher Carrie - Actress: Star Wars' Princess Leia
Ford Harrison - Actor (Jewish Mom, see interviews in cosmopolitan/playboy)
Frankel, Mark - Actor
Freed, Alan (first radio star in 50´s to play Rock n' Roll)Freedman, Jacob -- WBZC's Sunday Morning Klezmer DJ
Friedman Debbie - songwriter and singer
Geffen David - Dreamworks, Owns Geffen Records ( Israeli )
Geller, Sarah
Michelle
- Actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV)
Geller, Uri - Magician who Bends Spoons & Levitates ObjectsGere Richard - Actor
Gershwin George - composer (Rhapsody in Blue)
Gifford Cathy Lee Epstein - Talk Show HostessGoldblum Jeff - Actor
Goldwyn Samuel - Director, Executive at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Gordon, Tony (Manager UK Punk Band Sham 69)
Gordon, Nina - Musician, Veruca SaltGorme, Eydie - Singer, Actress, Wife of 
Steve
Lawrence

Gould Elliot - Actor from Bay Parkway Brooklyn
Greaseman The - Doug Tracht - Nationally known radio shock jock
Green Brian Austin - Actor
Hanson, Beck - Musician
Haza, Ofra - Israeli Singer
Hayworth Rita - Rita Cansino - Source: Debrett's Goes to Hollywood - Cansino Family
Spanish
Himmelman, Peter -
Musician (and son-in-law to B. Dylan)
Hoffmann Gaby - Actress, Movies
Hoskins, Bob - Roger Rabitt, Cotton Club, Ex-Kibbutznik
Howard, Moe - One of the Three Stooges -
Howard Shemp (Samuel "Shemp Howard" Horowitz)
Iggy Pop musician (James Newell Osterberg, Jr.)
Irving, Amy - Actress
Kavner Julie - Actress, Voice of Marge Simpson
Kaye, Danny - Philanthropist, Song-and-Dance Man
Keitel Harvey (Actor: Pulp Fiction, The Piano, etc)
Carole King - Musician, SongwriterKirschner, Mia -
Actress/Exotica
Knopfler, Mark - Dire StraitsKramer,Stepfanie - Actress / Hunter
Kubrick Stanley- Director - ''2004", "A Clockwork Orange", Etc.
Jeremy, Ron - Porn Star
Joel, Billy - Musician, Winner of Grammy Awards
Jolsen, Al - Singer, Mummer, Cantor
Kaufman Andy - Latka on Taxi, Strange Humorist, Saturday Night Live Guest
Klein Calvin - Fashion Designer
Kudrow Lisa - TV Star-FriendsKurtz Swoosie - Actress
Lamour Dorothy - Actress
Lawrence Steve - Singer, Skeptic, Husband of Eydie Gorme
Lee, Geddy - Lead Singer
and Bass Player of the Band Rush
Lee, Michelle - Actress - Knots Landing
Luner, Jamie - Actress, TV Show "Savannah"
Manilow Barry - Musician, Singer
Marcell, Bibi &
Other Klezmer Performers
- Klezmer Singer Extraordinaire
Marley, Bob - Reggae Artist (father was Jewish, mother negro)
Marx Groucho - Comedian
Marx, Harpo - Comedian
Matthau Walter - Comedian, Actor
Martins, Luciano Costa - brazilian musician (mother mulatta, father indian/jewish)
Meyer Jeffrey - World Series Yankee Hero - Jewish Boy, 12, Who Deflected a Home
RunMargulies, Julianna - ER Actress
Mayer Louis B. - Founder & Director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Meyers, Ari - Actress / Kate and Allie
Minelli Liza - (Lisa Minelli) Singer/Actress
Mitchell, Andrea - NBC News Reporter, Wife of Alan Greenspan
Monroe, Marilyn,
Official Certificate of Her Conversion to Judaism, Dated
July 1, 1956, Archived on This PageMostel, Zero - Actor, Comedian, Painter
Murdoch, Rupert Media Monopoly MogulNeuwirth Bebe - Lilith on Cheers
Newman, Paul - Actor
Newton John, Olivia - Australian Pop Singer
Nimoy Leonard - Actor (Star Trek's 'Spock')
Oistrakh David - Violinist
Owens, Ronn - San Francisco/Los Angeles Talk Show Host
Page, Steve--Lead Singer of the Barenaked
Ladies
Patinkin Mandy - Actor (Chicago Hope)
Peck, Gregory - Raised
Catholic and Not Jewish but Posed as being Jewish in "Gentlemen's Agreement" Hence the RumorPeczynski , Dominika - TV star (Dominikas Planet), member of Swedish dance
band Army Of
Perlman Itzhak - World-Renowned Violinist
Pleshette Suzanne - Costar of The Bob Newhart Show
Portman Natalie - ActressPresley, Elvis - Jewish Maternal Grandparent
Raffi -
Childrens' Entertainer
Rainer Luise - Actress
Ramone, Joey - Lead Singer of the Ramones
Reed, Lou -
MusicianRichler, Mordechai - Famous Montreal WriterRickles, Don - Comedian
Rickman Alan - Actor (Sense and Sensibility, Die Hard, Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
Rivers, Joan - Comedian, Writer, Jeweler, Actress
Reiser, Paul - "Mad About You"
Reudor - Cartoonist, Author, Creator of Comic Strip and Books Featuring The
Doodle Family
Rhodes Bernie (First Manager of The Clash)
Rivera, Geraldo - Talk
Show Host
Roth, David Lee - Van
Halen Rocker
Ryder, Winona - Actress
Sachs, Nelly - Poet, Noble Prize in Literature
Sandler, Adam - ComedianSchlessinger, Dr. Laura - Radio Rherapist
Seagal Steven - Action Movie Star, "Under Siege," etc.
Seinfeld, Jerry -
Comedian
Server, Josh - Actor On the Show All ThatSeymour, Jane - Actress (father is Jewish)
Shatner William - Actor (Star Trek's Captain 'James T. Kirk')
Shore, Dinah - Singer, Performer, TV Hostess - Father was a Rabbi
Shue, Andrew - Actor (Melrose Place) US actor, brother of Elisabeth Shue (Jewish father, not
raised Jewish) a la http://experts.about.com/e/l/li/List_of_Jews.htm
Shue Elizabeth - Karate Kid, Back to the Future II & III, Leaving Las Vegas, The
Saint, etc...Schwartz, Stephen -- Lyricist, Composer
Shore, Pauly - Actor
Sills Beverly - Opera Star (Real Name: Beverly Silberman)
Silver Josh (keyboard player in goth metal band Type-O-Negative)Silverstein, Shel - Children's authorSilverstone, Alicia - Actress, Clueless StarSimon, Paul - Musician
Sioux Siouxie (female singer of British punk/goth band Siouxie & Banshees)Singer, Isaac Bashevis - Writer (Yiddish)
Slash (Saul
Hudson)
- Guitarist in Guns and Roses
Smith Raphael
(Bokkie Rosenthal) - Composer and ScriptwriterSondheim, Stephen - Broadway lyricist/composer
Spacek Sissy - an actressSpielberg, Steven - Director
Sprinkle Annie - Porn Star and Performance Artist
Spungen Nancy - Girlfriend of Sex Pistols´s Sasist Sid Vicious (Deceased)
Stanley Paul - Lead Hard Rock Singer and Guitarist for KISS, Real Name Stanley Eisen
Steinman Jim - Composer for Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Celine DionStern Howard - King of All Media
Stewart, Jon - ComedianStreisand, Barbara - Director, Singer, ProducerTal, Shiraz - Israeli supermodel (pic on top model directory)
Tandy Jessica - Actress, probably Christian descent, played her most famous role
as an elderly Jewish lady in "Driving Miss Daisy"
Telch, Ari - Mexican ActorThomas, Jonathan Taylor  - Real Name Jonathan Weiss
Tracht, Doug - The Greaseman - Nationally known radio shock jockUstinov Peter - Actor
Vedder Eddie - Lead Vocalist for Pearl JamWeber, Steven - Actor "Wings"
Weisel, Elie - Author and Nobel Laureate
Weiss Michael T. - TV Actor "The Pretender"
Wilder, Gene - Actor (Jerome Silberman)
Williams Robin - Actor (Said he was Jewish on "Oprah" possibly as a joke or
in referring to a movie role); he is probably of Christian descent. According to Adherents, Williams gravitated to Jewish friends in school and attended 14
bar mitzvahs as an "honorary Jew". His parents were descended from the English Welsh, and Irish (father) and French (mother). Robin Williams plays many Jewish
roles. Try
Wikipedia
for more information for starters if you are that interested.
Winkler Henry - Actor ('The Fonze' on 'Happy Days')
Wolf, Scott - Party of Five
Wyle, Noah - Actor - E.RYetnikoff, Walter (ex-manager of Michael Jackson)
Zuehra Elfassia - Famous Singer - Morocco
Hoskins, Bob - Roger Rabitt, Cotton Club, Ex-Kibbutznik, Sephardim
Effi - Israeli Hot Head ( MTV's Road Rules)
Jean-Pierre Barda - actor, TV star member of Swedish dance band Army Of Lovers
(Crucified,
Isrealism)
Sarah Jessica Parker - Actress
Dinah Manoff - Actress - "Empty Nest"
Mike Diamond - Musician (Beastie Boys)
Chaim Goldberg - World renowned artist of the Shtetl Culture. see site
Melanie Chartoff - actress
Sara Silverman - commedienne
Sophie Marceau - french actress Braveheart daughter of Marcel
Howie Mandel - Comedian
Phil Ochs - Topical Folk Singer of 's
Howard Ashman - lyricist Little Shop of Horrors, Disney animated features
Debra Winger - Actress
Clare Carey - actress, coach
Kevin Kline - Actor, Best Supporting Oscar in A Fish Called Wanda
Lenny Kravitz - singer, guitarist
Harry Houdini - World's Most Famous Magician and Escape Artist
Neil Diamond - Musician, Singer, Actor
Morie Amsterdam
Dustin Hoffman - Actor
Barry Horowitz: real name, professional wrestler in the WWF & WCW
Goldberg: name: Bill Goldberg, professional wrestler, WCW Champion
Raven: name: Scott Levy, professional wrestler, former WCW Champion
Dean Malenko, professional wrestler, former WCW champion
Jon Lovitz - Actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live, The Critic)
Isaac Asimov - world famous sci-fi writer
Susanna Hoffs - Singer in the Bangles
DiDi Conn - Actress
Christine Lakin - Step by Step
Herman Wouk - Author of War and Rememberance and other great epic novels
Gilda Radner - Comedian, Saturday Night Live
Jason Alexander -- Actor (George Castanza on 'Seinfeld')
Joseph Gordon - Levitt - actor on rd Rock From The Sun
Bette Midler - Actress/Singer
Michael Landon - Little House On The Prairie (Eugene Orowitz - real name)
Al Jolson - Singer, actor
Paula Prentiss - actress Jewish?
Robert Redford - Actor. Describes himself as 'half Jewish'.
Alan Jay Lerner - Lyricist (My Fair Lady)
Leslie Ann Warren - Actress Jewish?
Jonathan Silverman - actor/single guy
Marc Chagall - Painter, visual artist, Other site
David Harari- Bunghole Extradorinaire
Boris Karloff
Gene Simmons - singer/bass player for Kiss Israeli/Turkish, real name Haim Witz
(or Gene
Klein?)
Jeremy Priven? - actor on Ellen
Joan Collins - Actress and Socialite Jewish?
Jerry Lewis - Comedian, Actor, Director
Gilbert Gottfried - Comedian
Jonny Clegg - South african musician Jaluka and Savuka
Hank Azaria - Cartoon voices in Simpsons and starred in Birdcage
Gilad Gelfond and David Cygielman- Rappers
Michael Jackson - ABC Talk Radio Host
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. - actor
Larry Fine - one of the Three Stooges
David Janssen - actor
Jakob Dylan - lead singer of The Wallflowers and son of the great Bob Dylan
Don Diamont - actor Young and Restless
Irving Berlin -- songwriter & writer of musicals (God Bless America, White
Christmas, There's
No Business Like Show Business)
Marcel Marceau - Famous French mime
John Banner - Actor (Schultz from Hogan's Heroes) Jewish?
Aaron Lebedev - famous Yiddish singer and actor
MAX FELIX-ACTOR AND RADIO PERSONALITY-ARGENTINA
George Burns - Comedian, Actor (Real name: nathan birnbaum)
Randy Newman - Composer performer ('Toy Story' soundtrack)
Heddy Lamarr- actress, Delilah in Samson and...
Isaac Stern - Famous Violinist
TORI SPELLING
Jan Murray - comedian
David Helfcott - Musican
Roberta Peters - singer Metropolitan Opera
Goldie Hawn
Lawrence Hershon- little in the middle but he got much back
Allan Sherman - Singer/songwriter, humorist
Jamie Gertz -- actress
Harpo Marx - Comedian (Marx Brothers)
Lorraine Bracco - Actress (Goodfellas)
Brett Gurewitz - owner of Epitaph records and former guitarist for Bad Religion
diane venora - chicago hope
Giselle Fernandez (mother is Jewish)
Jenna Leigh Green - actress on Sabrina The Teenage Witch
Robert Goulet-Singer (Real Name: Robert Applebaum)
Naomi Shemer -- composer to Yerushalayim shel zahav
Stuttering John Melendezbaum - He looks as good as he talks!
Jeff Goldman - actor
katey segal - actress/singer married w/children
Neil Gaiman - Author (Sandman, Neverwhere)
Adam Sandler - Comedian/Actor
Isaac Mizrahi - Fashion Designer
Brooke Langton - actress (Samantha on Melrose Place)
Leonard Bernstein -- composer (West Side Story)
Peter Riegert - actor, Crossing Delancey
Gina Gershon - actress/Showgirls
Joel Grey - Broadway Actor (Emcee, Cabaret)
Joy Division (at least Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner, Ian
Curtis?)
Ed Asner, Mr. Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Dennis Prager - radio talk host, essayist, moralist
Jerry Springer - Talk show host
Kenny G - Musician
Scott Simon - host NPR's Saturday Weekend Edition, broadcast journalist
Rhea Perlman - Actress
Mara Wilson - child actress in Miracle on th St, Mrs. Doubtfire
Jim Bradley - Dog Trainer
Alan King - CNN king of talk
Barry Levinson - 'Diner' Director
Melissa Joan Hart- Mother's father devout orthodox Jew
Ken Wahl - Wiseguy star Jewish?
Jerry Herman - Composer of Hello Dolly!
Larry Adler - world famous harmonica player
Lorne Green - Bonaza star
Dan Blocker - actor, Bonanza
Fred Astaire (Fredrik Austerlitz - real name) Jewish?
Peter Sellers - Actor,Comedian
Ron Silver - Actor/Director
Perry Farrel - ne Bernstein. Musician, Porno for Pyros
Stan Getz - Jazz Saxophonist
Roman Polanski - Director
Super Dave Osborne - Comedian. Real name: Bob Einstein.
Tom Arnold - actor
Maury Chaykin - Actor -
Molly Ringwald - Brat Pack Actress
Jenna Von Oy -- actress who played six on blossom Jewish?
Paula Abdul - famous singer (Mother is French canadian Jew)
Phoebe Snow - Singer
Lorne Michaels - T.V. Producer (createdbureaucrat
David Copperfield - Magician
Lacey Chabert - actress on Party of Five
Barry Sisters - famous Jewish duet
Werner Klemperer (Klink on Hogan's Heroes, son of Otto K.)
Mel Blanc - Best-Known Cartoon Voices
Monty Hall - game show host
Soupy Sales - comedian
Leslie Howard - British actor, in Gone With The Wind, Killed as Pilot in WWII
for Britain
Jo Amar - Famous Singer - Morocco
Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz - real name)
Pinky Lee(Pincas Levy)--Children Entertainer of the 's
Marc Bolan (Marc Feld) - UK singer: T. Rex Frontman
Sally Jessy Raphael-T.V. talk show hostess, (real last name: Lowenthal)
Marla Sokoloff - actress
Richard Beymer - 'West Side Story' - actor
Geena Davis - actress
Jonathan Larson-composer (Rent)
Ira Gershwin -- lyricist
Matt Lauer - NBC Today Show
Richard Avedon - Photographer
Brent Spiner - Data character on Star Trek Next Generation
Zeppo Marx - Comedian (Marx Brothers)
Matthew Broderick - Actor. Jewish Mom
Yehudi Menuhin, world class Violonist
Tim Burton - Brilliant Director
brian bloom - actor
Michael Bolton - Singer
Art Garfunkel - Musician
Bruce Springsteen - singer/songwriter (Dutch/Jewish) evidence anyone?
Beatrice Arthur - Actress (Dorothy, Golden Girls)
Hillel Slovak - Late guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers
Victor Borge (Borge Rosenbaum) Pianist and Humourist
Mike Wallace - Television journalist
joey slotnick - actor/single guy
Joe T Turri - Famous NY house music producer
Harry Reems- 'Big' porn star of the 's
Cindy Margolis- Model and Cyberpinup
Fyvush Finkel - Actor/Entertainer - Picket Fences
Jennifer Grey - Actress (Baby, Dirty Dancing)
justine bateman - actress
clio goldsmith actress
Totie Fields - comedienne
Bernie Bernstein - Musician, Punk Band,'Hector'
Matityahu Glazerson - Author of Mystical Books/Composer
Dinah Shore - singer and TV star
Marat Galperin - athlete, entertainer, and regulator.
Wolf Blitzer - CNN Journalist
Peter Lorre - ne Ladislav Loewenstein, Actor
Ben Stiller - Actor/Director
craig t. nelson actor-coach
Yaasha Heifitz - Famous Violinist
Robby Benson Robert Segal-actor/director
Giora Fiedman - klezmer musician
Richard Kaufman (Ricky The K) - Disc Jockey
Brody Stevens - Comedian and Cable Access TV host in Seattle
Judd Nelson - Actor, Suddenly Susan, The Breakfast Club
Tina Louise - Actress (Gilligan's 'Ginger' - origin of the Hebrew word 'Jinji')
larry david writer-producer
Keith Moon - The Who ( Reputedly Jewish )
james spader - actor Jewish?
Elsa Morante, Italian author
Barbara Walters - US television broadcaster
Irwin Chusid- Writer, Record Producer, Radio Personality and Bon Vivant
donna karan - designer
Lawrence Harvey - born Skikne - actor
Judy Kuhn - Broadway Actress (Voice of Pocahontes)
Danielle Harris - Actress
sara gilbert actress-roseanne
patricia wettig - actress-thirtysomething
Leah Remini - actress , sitcom Fired Up
Ricki Lake - talk show hostess
Steven Spielberg - producer, director
Andrew Norden - Pre-Medical lover of women
John Garfield - actor
melanie mayron - thirtysomething
Pinchas Zuckerman -- violinist
Garson Gershon Kanin - actor
Cloris Leachman - actress
Franz Kafka - author
Francesca Neville - Shakespearean actress
Arnold Schoenberg - Composer
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen - author
Gary Schandling - Comedian
Mark Reizen - Great Russian bass, "probably the greatest bass voice Russia ever
produced"
mike ogulnick - one on one sports radio network anchor
Burt Ward - actor, Robin from Batman Jewish?
Audrey Landers - actress
James Concord Douglas
Estelle Getty - Actress (Sophia, Golden Girls)
Matthew Kuchta -- first porn star with inch penis
Harlan Ellison-Science fiction writer
Morley Safer - Television journalist ( Minutes)
Jack Carter - Comedy
Bill Graham - Late rock promoter extrodinaire
Howie Morris - comedian (Your Show of Shows)
audrey hepburn
Sophie Tucker Abuza - performer ''last of the red hot mamas'
Pee Wee Herman (Paul Rubens)
Paul Auster - author and poet
Steven P. Greenberg - songwriter (Funkytown)
paul michael glazer - actor/director starsky and hutch
Country Joe McDonald - singer (mother)
Robert Downey Jr. - Actor Jewish?
jeffrey archer author
Neil Simon - Broadway playwright
Jonathan Mostow - Screenwriter and movie director
David Harari- Film Maker
Peggy Lipton - Mod Squad Actress From Lawrence N Y
Debra Winger actress
Buddy Hackett - Actor/Comedian
Mark Dixon - Counts cars in Nissan in Sunderland,UK
Neil Sedaka - Singer
Al Cohn - famous saxophone player now deceased
George Segal - actor
Arlo Guthrie, Woody Guthrie's son, mother Marjorie was Jewish
Richard Rogers - Composer
Carolyn Summerlin-Comic/Concert Pianist
amy brenneman actress
Joe Dytko--the first founder of the turrles
Judd Hirsh actor-Taxi
Stan - South Park (Comedy Central) character (Wed. pm EST)
Philip Roth - Author
Jerry Orbach- Briscoe on Law and Order
Alan Alda - actor Jewish?
Al Kooper - Founder, Blood Sweat and Tears
Rodd Keith (real name:Rod Eskelin) song-poem auteur
Matt Fraiberg - owner Guardian Alarm
Chico Marx - Comedian (Marx Brothers)
Chaim Potok - Author
David Broza --Israeli singer/songwriter
Mr. Rogers - TV star... plays with little kids
Are Thue-Jones - Founder of Jew-Tang
Camille Pisarro - Artist
Kathy Levine - QVC Hostess
audrey hepburn actress
Jessica Savitch - NBC News' Former Golden Girl
Peter Mark Richman - Actor/writer/artist
adam arkin actor/chicago hope
Marilyn Michaels - Impressionist
Alan Menken -- composer
george jessel - Toastmanster General
Dani Behr - S.African/British presenter(Giggs' girl)
Yasha Heifetz - Violinist
Lorne Greene - Actor
Pamela Anderson - Playboy model (born Joan Goldstein)
Gustav Mahler - Composer
Phoebe Cates-Costar of Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Real last name: Katz)
Jewish?
Judy Blume - Children's author
Bronco Billy Anderson-silent film cowboy star
Richard Benjamin - actor and director
Charles Bronson - Movie Star
Joey Bishop - comic
MCA (Adam Yauch)- Rap musician, Beastie Boys
Josef Schmidt, Rosa Raisa, Leonard Warren, opera singers
Norm Crosby- Standup comic
James Caan - (Actor) Rollerball etc.
Emma Samms - actress on Dynasty Jewish?
Louise Wener - Frontwoman Britpop band Sleeper
Omri Katz - actor
Richard Lewis - Comedian
Adam Sandler-A GUY THAT WRITES SONGS FOR COOL JEWS!
michael fishman actor-roseanne
Barbara Amiel - writer
Walter Mathau-Actor and Comedian
Norman Greenbaum - 'Spirit in the Sky' musician
Joanna Going - actress
Otto Klemperer - Orchestral Conductor
Randy West - Porno Star
Ralph Lauren
Paul Mazursky - Director, beautiful, meaningful films
Ed Asner - actor
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits lead vocal and guitarist
Richartd Belzer-actor/comedian
Eddie Cantor - Singer, actor
max weinberg - drummer, bruce springstein, conan o'brien
Mike Nichols - Director ( The Graduate, Catch , The Birdcage )
Patrick Bruel - French Singer
Yaakov Agam - modern painter/sculptor
Rowan Atkinson(?)- Comedian (Mr. Bean, Voice of Zazu in Lion King) Jewish?
Salim Hallali - Famous Singer - Morocco
Benny Goodman - King of Swing
danny jacobson writer/producer
Jean Jacques Goldman, french musician et singer
Adam Duritz - lead singer of Counting Crows
Paul Cohen - Quebecer guitarist
Joan Lunden, real last name Blunden
saul rubinek actor
michael wolf musician
Marty Feldman - actor, comedian
Dave Ehrman - actor
ADRIAN KAPLAN - South African actor
Maurice Schwartz - major figure in Yiddish Theatre
Corey Feldman - Actor
Milton Berle - Comedian
Madeline Kahn - actress (Clue, Nixon)
Matthew Bratter - Musician, Daisy's Red Gravy Train
Donna Karan - designer
Justine Frischman - Frontwoman Britpop band Elastica
sally field - actress Jewish
Arthur Fiedler - Former Boston Pops Conductor
Laurence Tolhurst - Original drummer of The Cure
Brett Sommers - The Match Game
Stanley Kubrick-movies director (clockwork orange,the Shining...)
Richard Tucker - Great hazzan and operatic tenor
Buddy Rich - worlds greatest drummer
Richard Simmons- Live-it, health guru
Aaron Copland - Composer of Appalachin Spring and other great classical music
George Solti-conductor (Chicago Symphony)
Maury Yeston- Musical composer of shows like Nine, Phantom and Titanic
gabriela karteris -
Irving Layton - Canadian poet
Gary Lewis - Rock Singer ( Jerry's Son )
Ernst Lubitsch- Polish film Director of classic To Be Or Not to Be
Don Adams - agent , Maxwell Smart
Oscar Levant - pianist
Arturo Jimenez - Columbian Real Estate Magnate
Jan Peerce (Pinchus Perlmutter) - great operatic tenor
Mike Gordan-Bass for Phish
Joe Elliot- Def Leppard lead singer
ken olin actor\thirtysomething
David Horowitz - T.V. Personality
Phil Glasser- Actor- An American Tail (Fievel)
Debbie Gibson - Singer Jewish?
Wallace Shawn- actor (Princess Bride, Toy Story, Clueless)
Moshe Weinberg (Vainberg) Russian composer and contemporary of Shostakovitch.
Relatively
unknown in USA but popular in Former USSR.
Simone Signoret - French actress ('Diabolique')
Clea Lewis - actress/ Audrey on Ellen
Saul Zaentz - Producer ( One flew over..., Amadeus, The English Patient )
Rachel Rosenthal - Los Angeles-based performace artist
Richard Belzer - Comedy
Will Self - British writer (mother)
Roger Hannin - French actor
Fritz Lang - German director of classics as Metropolis and The Vampire of
Dusseldorf
Dr. Laura Schlesinger - Radio host and author
rena sofer actress
David 'Dudu' Fisher - Popular Israeli Singer and Cantor
Vic Tayback-T.V. Costar of Alice
Daniel Day Lewis, British actor (Jewish mother)
Graham Gouldman - member of cc, 's pop songwriter
Dina Meyer - Actress-appears in upcoming film 'Dragonheart'
Abe Vigoda - Fish From Barney Miller
Felix Mendelssohn, composer
Marcel Proust - Second most important writer (after Kafka) this century
Mark Volman co-founder of the turtles
Yul Brynner - definitely Jewish screen actor
arye gross - actor
Michael Gelman - producer of Regis and Kathie Lee
Rain Pryor - actress daughter of Richard, mom Jewish
Howard Kaylan co-founder of the turtles
David Cronenberg - Canadian director/writer (The Fly)
David Birney - actor-St. Elswhere Jewish?
Rina Mor - Messinger - Israeli Miss Universe -
Randy Spelling - actor son of Aaron Spelling and brother of Tori Spelling
kim zimmer actresss/guiding light
Carl Reiner - Comedian
Mike Bloomfield - Blues Guitarist
Lee Grant - actress/director
Sam Wolff - Mayor Elect/Atlanta (Rabbi Cheamcheese)
Alicia Markova - Ballet dancer (nee Alice Marks).
S. J. Perelman - Writer - Screenplays for Marx' Comedies: Monkey Business; Horse
Feathers, etc
Yuri Rasovsky - Peabody Award-winning radio dramatist of the s and s.
Edward G. Robinson-Actor(Realname Emmanuel Goldenberg)
Anouk Aimee - French actress ('A Man and a Woman')
Enrico Macias Algerian-French jew Famous?
Melissa Rosenberg - Joan Rivers' daughter/Host E! Entertaiment
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Joely Fisher - actress/Ellen. Half-sister of Carrie.
Mitul Patel - Jewish/Indian actor
Adam Yauch - Musician (Beastie Boys)
Mark Bomer-Jewish Activist and Historian
Pincas Zuckerman
Joe Belgrade - stage and screen actor
Elliot Goldenthal - Movie Composer - Batman and Robin and others
Kent Brockman - TV anchor on The Simpsons Kenny Brockelstein
Henri Bergson - noble prize winner (literature)
Stan Getz - world famous saxophonist
Jim Shapiro - Musician, Veruca Salt
Arthur Koestler - author
Kurt Weil - composer (Three Penny Opera)
Jennifer Jason Leigh - actress
Mark Walberg - Game Show Host(The Big Date)
Al Waxman - actor / Cagney and Lacey
Max Fleischer - Animation Producer (Betty Boop, Popeye, etc.)
Julius Lester - author and professor Jewish?
David Halberstam - Author
Kirk Douglas, nee Isadore Demsky
Fritz Reiner, George Szell, conductors
Joe Besser: one of the three stooges, for a while.
Ronn Owens -San Francisco/Los Angeles Talk Show Host
Lorraine Newman - Saturday Night Live
Aaron Freeman - Chicago radio talkshow host
Stephen Evans - Writer/Director/Actor
Helen Hunt (Father Jewish; Mad About You)
Albert Cohen, French language author
Josh Niehaus - Musician/entertainer/player
kinky friedman -country singer and mystery author
Felix Mendelssohn - composer
Todd Suchman, Styx drummer
Laurin Sydney - Showbiz Today CNN
Michael Kinsley -- syndicated columnist
Robert Merrill - Opera Singer
Jeff Daniels - actor Jewish?
Jerry Stiller - Mr. Costanza and Ben's dad
Helen Shapiro - British singer
Justine Frischmann - lead singer of well known UK indie band Elastica
David Steinberg - comedian/director
Steven Tyler - lead singer in the music group Aerosmith
jackie mason
Shecky Greene - comic
Harvey Korman-Comedian, Costar of The Carol Burnett Show
June Allyson Ella Geisman - actress
Harrison Ford - one Jewish parent
Alain Boublil - Lyricist of Miss Saigon
Sakari Topelius - Old finnish national fairy-teller
Ringo Starr - Beatles drummer.
Isaac Mizrachi -- fashion designer
Jack Klugman - Oscar from The Odd Couple
Paul McKellar-Nazi Hunter, Nationally recognized lectur on Holocaust events.
Fanny Brice - comedian
Doc Severenson - Tonight Show
Jessica Lundy - actress (Hope and Gloria)
Alan Wilder - keyboards player of Depeche Mode
Andrew 'Dice' Clay - Comedian, Actor. Real name is: Andrew Silverberg
Nina Rodzynek - Musician
Justin Wilson- Mais, Cher, ANOTHER famous Cajun
Aaron Rosand, concert violinist
Jennifer Doctorovich - theater actress in Houston ,Texas
Jack Spector - Disc Jockey
Joanna Gleason (daughter of Monty Hall) actress
Elliot Gould- actor, M.A.S.H.
Jon Stewart- Hilarious Jew
Pittsburgh Pete - Radio Actor
Jerry Bock - Composer( Fiddler On The Roof, She Loves Me plus more)
john stossel /
Ross Martin- actor(TV's 'The Wild, Wild West').Real name Martin Rosenblatt.
Lee Konitz - musician (jazz saxophonist)
Charles Grodin - actor/writer
Dan Futterman- Actor (The Birdcage)
Michael Ovitz - Disney
Charles Orange - Poet
Ben Elton - comedian and writer.
Arthur Schnitzler - Viennese playwright, novelist and doctor
Leslie Stahl - Sixty Minutes
Laura Shaff - Bon Vivant, Girl About Town
Debbie Goad - Writer (Answer Me!)
Haim Topol - Actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
Helena Bonham-Carter--her mother is a Rothschild
Hans Rosenthal -- showmaster
Don Black - lyricist of Sunset Boulevard
Laura Bertam, actress on the Disney Channel's 'Ready or Not'
Sid Ceasar - Your Show Of Shows
Jamie Lee Curtis (Father is Jewish)
Robert Clary - Actor (LeBeau from Hogan's Heroes)
Steven Adler-ex drummer for guns n roses
Michael Tucker - Actor, LA Law etc.
Arlene Dahl - Actress
Linda Rondstat -Singer Jewish grandparents
Suzy Mamann Greenberg - Producer of Seinfeld and some other NBC shows
Mick Jones - Musician from the Clash/B.A.D. -- mother Jewish
Rick London (London's Times Cartoon force.supernews.com in Mississippi
Sid Caesar - comedian
Steve Guttenberg - Actor
Jay Diamond - Radio Talk Show Host (used to be on WABC)
Lorenzo Lamas - Actor ( Jewish Mom )
Hy Berkawitz - Owner of Rogers Dept.store in Grand Rapids MI
Bruno Schulz- writer
Adam Faith - British singer
Christopher Lambert - actor (father)
Jackie Kallen - manager of James Toney
Barbara Hershey (Herzstein)- actress- one-time hippie/flower child, now likes
her lips to be big!
Sasha Mitchell - Actor (Step by Step, Kickboxer )
Sam Levinson - humorist/TV panelist
Ann B. Davis - Actress (Alice in The Brady Bunch)
paula zahn - broadcast journalist cbs
Ramblin' Jack Elliot-folk singer/guitar player
Wendy Mallick - actress ( mostly sitcoms)
Carnie Wilson - former singer (wilson phillips), former talk show host, and
daughter of beach boy
brian wilson (mother marilyn rovell is Jewish)
Arnold Stang - Film Actor
chevy chase -actor comedian
Carly Simon - Singer
Jackie Mason - Comedian
Martin and Charlie Sheen
Ken Berry-T.V. star-Mayberry R.F.D., F Troop
Rob Reiner - Comedian and Movie Director
Totie Fields - Comedienne
Steve Levy -- (ESPN-Sportscenter)
Pope John Paul II -He's the spitting image of my Galitzyaner grandfather
Richard Salwitz - aka Magic Dick, Musician J Geils
Milton Berle - comedian
Chuck Barris - Creator Of The Dating Game
Ian Ziering - actor,
Gene Barry - starred on TV Bat Masterson
Adam Rich - Eight Is Enough
jane kaczmarek actress
Linda (Epstein) Eastman - Paul Macartney's wife
Rona Barret ( Bernstein ) - Gossip Reporter
paul shaffer musician-letterman show
Red Aaron Buttons - comic
Ivan Reitman - Canadian director - meatballs
Tori Spelling - Donna in Beverly Hills
Shelley Berman - comedian
Yves Montand - real name Ivo Livi, famous french singer
Florence Henderson - Brady Bunch, singer
Lyle Waggoner-Comedian and former costar of The Carol Burnett Show
Allen Funt - Host of 'Candid Camera'
Woody Strode - black man from spartacus
Alfons Halim -- yeah... this one is surely Jewish.
Jeff Chandler -- 's movie star
Tony Kushner- Playwright (Angels in America)
Stephanie Powers - Actress
Buzz Aldrin - former US astronaut
Samy Elmaghribi - Famous Singer - Morocco
Art Buchwald - author and columnist
Jonathan Brandis - actor
William Goldman - screenwriter (The Princess Bride)
Walter Lippman - journalist/ founded the New Republic
Josef Szigeti, violinist
Rob Cohen, Director Horror Films
David Helfgott - Brilliant Australian pianist
Jerry Seinfeld -- comedian, tv star
Haim Topol - actour
Dani from Cradle Of Filth (Mother is Ethiopian,Father is Jewish)
Andrew Mark Berman - Actor that was on The Wonder Years and other shows
max weinberg - drummer for bruce springstein, conan o'brien
Lawrence Harvey - Famous actor
Michael Berrin - M.C. Search formally of rd Bass
Arlene Sorkin - Caliope Jones On Days Of Our Lives
Gene Wilder, actor, Silver Streak, Gilda Radner's husband
David Schwimmer - Actor (Ross on 'Friends')
King Diamond - american singer (Mercyful Fate)
Herschel Savage - Porn Star
Julie Kanver- voice of Marge Simpson
Jenna Jameson - porn star/mother teresa protege/wife of SQS
Shelley Winters Shirley Schrift - actress
Tony Randall (Leonard Rosenberg - real name)
Jerry Orbach-actor
sylvia sydney - actress
Jay Black - Jay And The Americans
Samuel Avital - Founder, Boulder Mime Theatre
Dustin Diamond - screech from saved by the bell
Mircea Crisan (Kraus?) romanian entertainer
Paulette Goddard - famous movie actress of the past
Trevor Rabin - Yes
David Gahan - Lead for Depeche Mode
Sydney Rome- Famous Actress
Arnold Schoenberg, famous composer
Josef Von Sternberg - Actor/Director
Robert Clary - actor (Hogan's Heros)
Joel and Ethan Coen - producer, director, writers (Raising Arizona)
fred savage actor-wonder years
Jackie Vernon- comedian
Liv Tyler - actress daughter of Steven Tyler
Mitzi Gaynor - Actress, Dancer, Singer
Neriah Davis- porn star
Mark Feuerstein - actor (comedy Fired Up)
Courtney Love - America's sweetheart
Mickey Hart - Drummer for Grateful Dead (also Mystery Box)
Bess Myerson - first Jewish Miss America
Herschel Bernardi - actor
Moe Kauffman - Canadian jazz great
Michele Landsberg - newspaper columnist and Jewish Womens' activist
tony goldwyn - actorghost
Melissa Manchester - Singer
Shlomo Mintz - violinist
Mark Moran - Talk Show Host
Shaun Weiss - Kid Actor(Heavyweights,Mighty Ducks +)
Ross Gelman-actor,comedian,adult entertainer
Vladimir Horowitz - Pianist
Ron Leavitt - Married With Children Creator/Producer
Jason Marsden - actor
Jack Gilford - Comedian/Actor
Serge Koussevitzky - conductor
dianne weist actress
Michel Berger, french composer and singer (tycoon)
Barry Sonnenfeld - director Get Shorty, Addams Family
ron rifkin - actor
Sheldon Harnick - Lyricist (Fiddler On the Roof, She Loves Me plus more)
Lee Zurik (CBS Sports Anchor)
Mr. G - WPIX New York weatherman
Selma Diamond - late gravelly voiced actress from Night Court
Polly Draper - actress (Thirtysomething) Jewish?
Dorothy Rothschild Parker - author and Algonquin wit
Joshua Redman - saxaphonist, Jewish mom
Malcolm McLaren--manager/impresario of the Sex Pistols
Allen Garfield (Goorwitz) - actor
Zohra Lampert - actress
Peter Wolf - Musician
David Susskind - producer
Dan Greenburg - author ('How to be a Jewish Mother')
Sheldon Leonard - late actor/producer
Michael Lembeck - actor/director
Sonny Fox - children's TV producer/host
Stuart Pankin - former host of HBO *Not Necessarily the News
Bruno Bauer - conductor
Sherwood Schwartz - Creator Of Gilligans Isle
Renee Taylor - Actress (The Nanny) Jewish?
Paul Muni - Actor(Realname Muni Weisenfreund)
Shalom Aleichem-Yiddish Writer
Emma Lazarus - poet ('Give me your tired, your poor,..' from the Statue of
Liberty)
Jonathon Lipnicki - child actor/ Jerry Maguire
Alan Gratzer and Kevin Cronin-musician of REO Speedwagon
Doug Feiger - Musician, The Knack
John Leguizamo-Colombian actor/comedian (Jewish?)
Menahem Golan - Israeli producer/director
Phobe Levy Pember --Confederate Civil War Heroine
Gregg Woodman - The Sidewinder
Jean-Luc Godard- filmmaker
Rick Moranis actor
Kim Greist - actress: chicago hope/homeward bound
Anthony Newley - singer/composer/actor
Kitty Carlisle-panelist on What's My Line (real last name: Conn)
Claude Rains - Actor (Casablanca)
David Mamet - director-writer (The Verdict, Hoffa)
Allen Ginsberg-all time greatest American poet
Artur Rubenstein - piano virtuoso
Andy Kaufmann - taxi-comic
Dina Sfat, Brazilian actress
William Daniels - actor St. Elswhere
Jerry Ohrbach - Actor
David Milch - Co-producer/writer of NYPD Blue
Bill Pullman - actor Jewish?
Yaphet Kotto - famous actor
Adam Horowitz - Musician (Beastie Boys)
Amos Elon - Israeli writer and journalist
Lisa Edelstein - actress/Relativity
Boris Pasternak - Russian writer
Camryn Manheim - actress (The Practice)
Rick Rubin - Record producer/Def jam co-founder
Andy Ackerman - producer/director (Cheers, Frasier, Seinfeld)
Eddie Fisher - Singer
Georges Bizet-composer of Carmen, Symphony in C
Clifford Odetts-playwright (Golden Boy)
Michael Rappaport - actor
Eugene Ormandy- conductor (purveyor of the Philadelphia sound)
Rob Schneider - actor/comedian
Roy Lichtenstein- painter
Artur Rubinstein- pianist
John Rubinstein- actor (Family; son of Artur)
Jessica Walter- actress
J.D. Salinger- author (Catcher in the Rye)
F. Murray Abraham- actor (Amadeus)
Sam Jaffe- actor (Ben Casey)
Norman Lear - All In The Family Creator
Marvin Hamlisch - composer of A Chorus Line
Ed Isaiah Wynn - actor
Peter Green - Blues guitarist, founder of Fleetwood Mac
Gummo Marx - Comedian (Marx Brothers)
Marianne Faithful - singer, girlfriend of Mick Jagger
Steven Lovy - writer/director of Circuitry Man
Richard Dix - famous movie actor of the twenties and thirties
Mickey Cohen - Gangster
Florenz Ziegfeld - theatrical producer
Dan Lauria - actor/wonder years
Carl Bernstein - author and journalist
Richard Masur - actor
Joseph Papp public theatre
Harold Prince - Broadway Director (Phantom Of The Opera, Cabaret, and many more)
Benjamin Mor - Benyad from the rap group Blood of Avraham
D. Saevitz - Mazik from the fap group Blood of Avraham
Max Aranoff (sp?), violist of the Curtis String Quartet
Goldie Hawn - Actress
Primo Levi - Writer(Holocaust Survivor)
Adam Goldberg - actor (TV-Relativity, Movies-Higher Learningunfortunetlyand The
Prophecy)
Shimi Tavori - Outstanding Israeli Singer and Performer
Stephen R. Kuntz - famous attorney at law
Karl Haas-pianist, conductor, acclaimed host of Adventures in Music
Polly Bergen - Actress
hal linden hal lipshitz actor
Arthur Miller - Writer (Death of a Salesman)
Beverly Sills--opera singer and director
Al Jolson--singer and actor
Daniel Stern - Actor
Carly Simons -singer
Fredrick Loewe - Composer( Camelot, Gigi, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon)
John Rubenstein - actor
Tom Bosley - Mr. C. on Happy Days Jewish?
Roberta Peters -- Opera Singer
John Garfield -- 's movie star
Mark Banks - South African comedian
Susan Strasberg, daughter of Lee, stage and screen actress
Betty Friedan - author/ feminist
Stanley Drucker World-ranked clarinetist, NY Philharmonic Orchestra since
Deborah Raffin - Actress
Kevin Pollack - actor
Theda Bara - Silent Actress, original 'vamp'
Natalio Finkelstein - famous violinist in tango orchestras- Argentina
Norman Corwin - pionerr writer, producer, director of American radio drama
Paul Rubin - Comedian and...
Alan Rachins - LA Law
Fania Fenelon -- singer, author, Holocaust survivor;*Playing for Time* is her
autobiography
Max Weinberg - drummer
Lee Strassberg - Actor
Larry Storch - F Troop Actor
Jeannie Becker - Fashion Television
Phil Silvers - Sgt. Bilko
Kenny G - World renowned Musician(sax)
Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskin - musicians from Bauhaus, British goth band
Billy Wilder - Director (Sunset Boulevard- the movie)
Josh Niehaus - Musician/Entertainer
Yaki Margulies - Well known artist in sea-town
Pierre Monteux - Orchestral Conductor
Mel Tilles--Country and Western singer
Rita Rudner - commedienne
Faye Kellerman - author,wife of jonathan
Herb Edelman - Police Chief on 'Murder She Wrote'
Chip Zien - Broadway actor (Falsettos, Into The Woods)
Leonard Bernstein - composer, conductor
Bruce Adler - singer, dancer, comedian
Yascha Heifetz - violinist
Abigail Van Buren - dear abby
Peter Falk - actor (TV's 'Columbo')
Robert 'Mutt' Lange- owner Flood/Mute records (Depeche Mode)
Martin Gore- songwriter (Depeche Mode)
Stacy Earl- singer
Josh Meisels -- marathon runner
Bill Maher - comedian
Maeve Kinkead actress-guiding light
Jule Styne - composer of Gypsy
Yarema Hutsaliuk - famous American/French writer
Louie Nye (Neistat) - comedian
David Mamet- pulitzer winning playwright
Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby)-advice columnist
Ralph Bakshi- cartoon director (Fritz the Cat, Cool World)
Lindsey Crouse - actress (Daniel)
Judy Cavitez-actress
Greg Hetson - guitarist for Bad Religion and the Circle Jerks
Jerome Kern - composer of Show Boat
Matt Groening - Creator of the Simpsons
Ben Savage actor
Robert Lansing - Actor
Claude - Michel Schonberg- composer of Les Mis
Sidney Lumet - Film Director
DENISE KATRINA SMITH(aka Vanity) -mother is jewish
Mark Rothko - Abstract Expressionist Painter
Jane Wiedland - Member of the Go-Gos.
Al Cooper - Musician
Roxanne Hart actress-Chicago Hope
Rod Serling - Twilight Zone Creator Jewish?
Ethel Merman - ethel zimmerman performer
Herb Alpert - musician and mogul (Russian Jewish)
Abe Vigoda -- Fish on Barney Miller
Sue Mengers - Agent
David Brenner Comedian
Edward G. Robinson - actor
Paul Muni - Actor ('Louis Pasteur', 'Fugitive from a Chain Gang')
Boris Thomashevsky - Actor (Yiddish theater)
Walter Mosley Writer (mother is Jewish)
Dictators-'s NYC punk rock pioneers-Handsome Dick Manintoba (Richard Blum) Andy
Shernoff
Ross (The Boss) Friedman Scott(Top Ten) Kempner Richie Teeter
Ted Koppel - television newscaster (ABC Niteline)
Goldy Hawn-actress, First Wives Club
Zachary Hines - son of Gregory and Jewish wife
Adam Sandler- Comedian, songwriter
Erynn Hubbard - actress/comedian
Dr. Ruth - Famous Sex Therapist
Alexander Kipnis - Opera Singer
Emanuel List - Opera Singer
Marie Rappold - Opera Singer
Barbra Streisand-actress, singer
Rita Shane, Norman Mittelmann, Met opera
Jerome Kern, Frank Loesser, Bway composers
Gregor Piatigorsky, Emanuel Feuermann, cellists
Josef Szigeti, Mischa Elman, violinists
Thomas Shlamme - director
Franz Kafka
Joel Grey, actor
Georgia Brown, actress
Judy Holliday, actress
nora ephron - writer/director
Morris Carnovsky, actor
Goddard Lieberson, President of Columbia Records
Adolph Green, lyricist
Bonnie Franklin - Actress
Moira Shearer - famous actress now deceased
Chaim Topol -- singer and actor
Robbie Kreieger - Doors guitarist
Bruce 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow- great 's+'s NYC disc jockey
Richard Hell-punk rocker-Television Heartbreakers Voidoids
Jonathan Silverman - Actor
Mike Diamond - (Mike D.) band member of Beastie Boys
Adam yauch - (MCA) band member of Beastie Boys
Adam Horowitz - (Adrock) band member of Beastie Boys
Amos Oz - Israeli writer philosopher
Silvio Santos- Brazilian humorist
Leo Genn-Famous British actor(Quo Vadis)
Duncan Renaldo - Tv's Cisco Kid (born in Roumania)
Efrem Zimbalist Sr.- World-class violinist
Ricardo Cortez -Film actor (born Jacob Krantz)
Francesca Annis -British actress
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.- Silents star (real name Ulman)
Stuart Whitman- Film actor
Larry Gelbart - Mash producer
Jack Benny, comedian
Alan Klein - briefly manager of both The Beatles and The Stones
Joel Siegel - film critic ABC
Bernard Kalb - CNN Host of 'Reliable Sources'
hart bochner actor-director
Armin Shimerman- 'Quark' on Deep Space Nine
Jonathan Larson - composer of the musical RENT
Matt Groening - Genius Creator of The Simpsons
gary david goldberg - producer
Barbara Walters - Journalist
Shalom Harlow - model need confirmation of being Jewish?
Frank Hope- From Oddville he is the host on the show.
Joseph Brodsky - Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature,
Natasha Lyonne- jewish actress
Claire Bloom - Actress
Sydney Pollack - Director/Producer
Katrina Neville- soprano- star of Penn State Opera Theatre
Patricia Richardson actress/home improvement
Henry Jaglom - Director of off-beat films
Amy Heckerling - director-writer (Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Arthur Rubinstein - Pianist
Sarah Berhardt - famous French actress-early 's
Jason Bateman - actor
Isaac Babel - Writer
Nathanael West (Nathan Weinstein) - Writer - Miss Lonelyhearts; The Day of the
Locust,
Shari Lewis - Children's Entertainer
All the members of The J.Geils Band except for J.Geils
Lisa Loeb - Singer with band Nine Stories (spelling?)
David Schwimmer-in Friends
Jessica Hecht actress-single guy
Bert Bachrach - popular American composer
Aaron Abel-singer
Serge Gainsbourg-French comoser and singer
Larisa Oleynik - Secret World of Alex Mack
Gertrude Berg - actress (TV's 'The Goldbergs')
Oscar Hammerstein - deceased composer of Broadway musicals
Gene Siskel - film critic (Siskel and Ebert)
Arthur Hiller (director of Love Story)
David Notowitz - Film producer, writer, editor
Paul Kossoff, guitarist english group free
Barbara Bach - Ringo's Wife Jewish Father
Syl Sylvain - Member of New York Dolls
Shmuel Yosef Agnon - Writer, Nobel Prize Winner
Judy Landers - actress
Linda Lavin - TV Show Alice
OPHELIE WINTER FRENCH ACTRESS AND SINGER
Alan Arkin actor-father of Adam
Elmer Bernstein - musician (composer/conductor)
Daniel Benzali - Actor (The Series: Murder One)
Jill Clayburgh-Actress (An Unmarried Woman, Silver Streak)
Brett 'Da Hit Man' Moses - Proprietor of Atlanta's Tattletales
Rod Steiger - actor (Oscar Winner) Jewish?
Wendy Liebman - commedienne
Mel Baron -- hero in WW
Estelle Harris - Yiddish actress plays George's Mom on Seinfeld
Larry Floyd Matthews - Country singer/accordianist
Norm Crosby - comedian
"Beck" - musician
Lena Brenner - story teller
Bill Dana - comedian
Al Levine -- WBLI/NY DJ JEWISH?
Manfred Mann - musician
The King Ad Rock (Adam Horovitz)- rap musician, Beastie Boys
Harry James - bandleader (husband of Betty Grable)
Dave Katz - Lead singer of Ekoositk Hookah
Tristan Tzara ( real name Sami Rosenstein ) - french poet (-); founder of the
Dadaist Movement of arts.
Al Lewis - TV Show The Munsters
António José da Silva, o Judeu - Portuguese playwriter, his work is the most
important collection of Portuguese dramatic theatre of XVIIIth cent. Killed by the Inquisition.
Harold Pinter -- English actor and playwriter; founder of the 'absurd theatre'.
Kim Iglinski - Israeli top-model, discovered in Paris with y/o.
H. Leivick -- Russian poet: 'The Golem'
Steve Lawrence -- popular singer-real name Sidney Liebowitz
Mitterrandestein - french actor
Michel Boujenah - famous french actor
Arthur Hiller - director (silver streak et. al. )
Louise Lasser - Mary Hartman
Eric Johnson -- solo artist (guitarist)
Gabriel Kaplan - Comic/welcome back kotter
Henny Youngman - Comedian
Malcolm Gets - actor (Richard on Caroline in the City)
Earl Pomerantz- executive producer for the Larry Sander's Show, Major Dad, (the
old) Cosby
Show
Carol Connors - Wrote theme song for Rocky
Alexey Sayle - Comedian
Jean Claude Van Damme Mother is Jewish
Susan St. James - Actress
Mick Green - Rock guitarist with the Pirates (was Johnny Kidd and the Pirates)
Greg Wise - actor
Max Miller - English music hall comedian.
Bud Flanagan - English music hall star.
Ruby Wax - comedienne.
Gustav Mahler - composer.
Mendel Feibush - famous Yiddish character actor
Jack Rosenthal - playwrite
Horst Buchholst - actor (one of the Magnificent Seven).
Maureen Lipman - comic actress.
Brian Epstein - impresario (Beatles manager).
Harry Rabinowitz - conductor.
Alfie Bass - comic actor.
Warren Mitchell - actor.
Frankie Vaughan - singer.
Anthony Sher - actor.
Bob Monkhouse - comedian.
Leslie Howard – actor
Leslie Gore – singer
Ronald Harwood - Born in South Africa as Horwitz( playwright)
Harry James - bandleader
Melvyn Douglas - actor
David Helfcott - classical pianist/child prodigy
Artie Shaw - bandleader
Bob Hoskins - Oscar winning actor : got an Oscar for 'Mona Lisa'.
Alma Cogan - singer
Taylor Dayne - Singer
Donald Weilerstein, former first violinist of Cleveland String Quartert
Norman Corwin - American radio dramatist
Viola Spolins - inventor of theater games
Paul Sills - founding director of Second City
Bernie Sahlins- founding producer of Second City
Wayne and Shuster - comedians
Ritz Brothers - comedians
Tony Martin - singer
Marty Balin - singer, Jefferson Airplane (father)
Gwyneth Paltrow - Movie Star(Emma,Seven)(father is Jewish)
Marlee Matlin- Deaf actress-Picket Fences
Saul Bellow - Novelist
Janet Leigh-Movie Star (Psycho,Bye Bye Birdie), mother of Jamie Lee Curtis
Jewish?
Sarah Bernhardt - actress
Robbie Robertson - singer, The Band (father)
Vic Morrow - actor
Calvin Trillin - writer
Grace Lee Whitney - actress who portrayed Yeoman Rand on 'Star Trek' -
Nichols and May - comedians
Smith and Dale - comedians
Rachel Lipman - Emmy winning tv writer ('Rugrats','Hey Arnold',...)
Rob Morrow - actor
Peter Bogdanovich - director
Maury Povich - Talk show host
Alan Rosenberg - Actor in LA Law and Cybill
Claude Lelouch - French film director
Bert Lahr - comedian
Freddie Prinz - comedian (mother)
Carl Reiner - comedian
Laura Nyro - singer
Molly Picon - actress
Eugene Levy actor/SCTV
Fred Levine--Psychologist
Mary Livingstone - comedian
Mel Blanc - cartoon voice
Marlee Matlin actress-picket fences
Helen Reddy - singer (converted)
Anne Revere - actress
Lilli Palmer - actress
John Forsythe (John Freund) Actor
Bob Saget - Comedian, Host of America's Funniest Home Videos
Kate Capshaw - actress
Joan Micklin Silver - director, writer (Hester Street, Crossing Delancey)
Steve Goodman - singer
Michael Douglas (Kirk's son) Actor
Ezequiel Antar
Sonia Benezra- french talk show host in montreal
Jason Hervey - costar of the wonder years
Victor Borge - comedian
Susan Cabot - actress
Carmel Myers - actress
Leo Gorcey - actor
Billy Halop - actor
Ben Harris- Scholar Extraordinaire
Michael Krugman - author of Generation Ecch
Adam Wyle actor-Picket Fences
Donne Pescow - Angie T V Show
Bruce Morrow (Cousin Brucie) - Disc Jockey
Jerome Robbins - choreographer, director
Albert Suissa - Famous Singer - Morocco
Jules Dassin - film director
Michael Stoyanov - actor he played Tony Ruso on the show Blossom
Murray Kaufman (Murray The K, The Fifth Beatle) - Disc Jockey, WINS
Aaron Spelling - famous TV producer/ daughter Tori on
Barbara Sokol - Grease
Jerzy Kosinski - Novelist
John Byrne (born Bronowski) - wanker
Tony Cowley (born Kaulish) - also a wanker
Barry Miller - Saturday Night Fever
Yaphet Kotto- capt. g on HOMICIDE
Chris Isaac - Musician, mother is Jewish
Bob Vila - Home-improvement Giant
Harry Ellis Dickson - Former Boston Pops Conductor
Juan Valdez - Columbian coffee guy (born John Feldenstein)
Carol Kane - Actress
Joel Silver - Producer ( Die Hard I,II,III etc. )
Mort Sahl - Comedy
Emil Gilels - Concert Pianist
Jeannie Berlin - Actress
Tony Parisi -- ...of the Village People (cowboy)
Seth Polzer -- famous shepherd from Isreal
Martin Landau - actor
Brad Ray -- famous pin-up boy and rap star
Justin Miller -- first male to receive breast implant
Paul Whiteman, Early big jazz band conductor
Richard Starkey - Ringo Starr - Former Beatle
Bugsy Siegal-gangster
The Beastie Boys - rap group, all Jewish
Jonathon Wolfe musician
Michael Buchmann Silver-actor (DA on NYPD Blue)
Israel Horowitz - Playwright
Jennifer Rubin - actress/Screamers
Kirka Babitzin - Finnish singer
Rachel Miner - actress/Guiding Light and is also in the Anne Frank play
Pat Nash - real name-Jacob Goldberg -- Famous Israeli Singer and Cantor ---
Yiddish writer/actor
(Three Penny Opera)
Mark Moses - actor/single guy
Marilyn Bergman - Songwriter
Mel Torme - singer, actor, songwriter (The Christmas Song)
Maxim Gorgi - Russian writer
Jaime Alissa Yoss - Gymnast extrordinaire, Indy car driver
Martin Mull - Comedy
LEIBER and STOLLER-composers,producers,writers,HOUND DOG, STAND BY
ME,JAILHOUSE ROCK)
Kerry King,Jeff Hanneman-Guitarists for Slayer
Cass Elliot (Elizabeth cohen) singer of the mammas and the papas
Bob Rivers-Morning Radio host
Josh Mostel - actor-son of zero mostel
Phyllis Newman - Actress
Sandra Bernhard - Comedian, Actress
Carol Leiffer - commedienne,writer/Seinfeld
John Taylor - Bass of Duran Duran jewish?
James L Brooks - Producer
Anton LaVey-Founder of The Church Of Satan (real name is Howard Levey)
Marilyn Manson-Teenie bopper pop star (Warner is real name)
Edward G Robinson tough guy actor deceased
Tracy Pollan - Actress, wife of Michael J Fox
Shlomo (sp?) Mintz, concert violinist
Jonathan Kellerman - best selling author
Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons-Musicians for rock band KISS
Mike Stern - Jazz guitarist
Jackie Mason - ordained Rabbi and Comedian
Jonathan Taylor Thomas- Home Improvement
Adam Arkin- actor
Leon Askin - actor, director (General Burkhalter in Hogan's Heroes)
Paul Shaffer- CBS ORCHESTRA , LATE SHOW
Piper Laurie Rosetta Jacobs - actress
Sidney Sheldon - best selling author
Barbara Walters-(Baba Wawa)-ABC TV interviewer
Dyan Cannon-actress currently on Ally McBeal
George Gershwin -- composer
Barry Horowitz---Pro Wrestler
Randy 'Macho Man' Savage--Pro Wrestler
Fred Savage - Young actor from Wonder Years
Maya Plisetskaya - Russian balet dancer
Missy Yager - is currently in the Anne Frank play on broadway
Natanya Ross - Actress 'Secret World Of Alex Mack'
Meredith Bishop - Actress 'Secret World Of Alex Mack'
Marion Ross - Actress 'Brooklyn Bridge' and 'Happy Days'
Steve Reich, American composer of minimalist music
Alana Ubach - Actress 'Brady Bunch movie' and 'Airborne'
Philip Glass, American composer of minimalist music
Michael Tilson-Thomas, Conductor classical music , grandson of Tomashefsky Yiddish actor
Andre Previn, former jazz pianist, now classical conductor
Juice Newton - Country/pop singer-Queen of Hearts (real last name:Cohen)
Harold Pinter, British playwrite
Sir Gorge Solti, Conductor - especially opera
Ronnie Scott, British jazz saxophonist, founder of Ronnie Scott's Club
Daniel Barenboim, Conductor and pianist
Hermione Gingold, Actress - parents married by British Chief Rabbi !
Warren Mitchell, British actor - especially TV.
James Levine, Conductor
Stephen Perkins - Drummer, Jane's Addiction
Steven Bochco - Producer of NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues
Jose Lewgoy, Brazilian actor ( Kiss of the Spider Woman)
Dyan CannonSamille Diane Friesen - actress
Ted Coppel - from ABC news (Broadcaster)
Barbara Walters - / News Broadcaster
Sally Jesse Rapheal - Talk show host
Michael Nyman, Composer - wrote music for film 'The Piano'
Jeremy Isaacs, was director Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Peter Schaffer, British playwright
Jonathan Miller, British opera director,doctor.
Arnold Wesker, British playwright
Arhur Miller, playwright - once married to Marilyn Munroe
Michael Roll, British pianist
Robert Rietti, British actor
Bernard Levin, British writer, newspaper columnist
Chaim Bermant, British humorous writer, newspaper columnist
Kyra Sedgwick - Star of Phenom,Miss Rose White (mother is Jewish)
John Steinbeck - Famous American Literature Author (i.e. Flight) of the th
Century from Salinas,California.
Richard Kind - actor (Mad About You, Spin City)
Leslie Nielsen, actor (Airplane, Mr. Magoo)
Robert Crumb, s/s cultural cartoonist
Liz Sheridan - actress (plays Jerry's mom on Seinfeld)
Mike Wallace ( Minutes)
Buck Henry - Comedian/Writer/co-creator of Get Smart
Lee Strasberg - acting teacher
Lynn Samuels - Radio talk show host, WABC radio
Sam Levene - stage and screen actor
Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor, Grandfather was famed Yiddish actor Boris
Tomashevski
Michael Gross- Actor (Family ties)
ROD STEIGER ACTOR
Maurice Sklar- violinist, plays for Benny Hinn
Red Skelton-Comedian and former T.V. variety show host
Larry Kramer- AIDS activist/Playwright (The Normal Heart, The Destiny of Me)
Scarlett Levine -- Huggies Commercial Star
Brian Epstein - Manager of The Beatles
Harry Shearer - Cartoon Voices on Simpsons/Comedian
Shawn Michaels- Pro wrestler
Sally Kellerman - actress/Mash
Richard Marx singer/musician
Alex Bendersky- A russian-jewish poet
Caroline Schreiber-singer and actress
Daniel Wayne Matthews - Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Jeffrey Katzenberg - Producer ( Dreamworks )
William Finn- composer (Falsettos)
Didi Pickles - mother of Tommy on the Rugrats
Aaran Tan - Lead singer and guitarist for rock band Phoenix
Aaron Bharatan - ex-Metallica guitarist and former guitarist for Phoenix
Jon Cryer - actor ,Pretty in Pink, The Famous Teddy Z
Richard Dreyfuss - JAWS Actor
Lee Cobb - famous actor
Phil Spector - Record Producer, famous for The Wall of Sound
MELISSA MANCHESTER - Singer-Songwriter-Actress
Leo Rosten -author Joys of Yiddish
Joshua Bell, concert violinist
Bruce Kulick - Guitarist from KISS
Elsa Zylberstein - french actress (played in Mina Tannenbaum)
Anita Diamant - author
Leonid Kogan - world class violinist
Peter Strauss - actor ('Rich Man, Poor Man')
Rebecca Goldstein - author/Mazel
Jackie Zeman - actress/general hospital
Jascha Brodsky, first violinist of the Curtis String Quartet
Jim Rome - sports talk show host
Michael Zaslow - Roger Thorpe on The Guiding Light
Jim Bleyer - writer
Michelle Tractenberg - actress in the movie Harriet The Spy
Kari Wuhrer-Salin - MTV hostess, B movie actress and hot piece of ass
JOHNNY RIVERS-MUSICIAN
Cy Coleman - Composer (Sweet Charity, City Of Angels)
Cindy Margolis - Beautiful blonde supermodel
Brian Feldman - he could be famous
Shalom Secunda-Composer wrote by meir bist du shane
Assaf Bernstein- top young israeli filmmaker
Amadeo Modigliani - Artist
Delmore Schwartz - Poet (th Cent)
Richard Kline - actor(Three's Company)
Eli Wallach - actor (The Magnificent Seven)
Danielle Fishel --actress
Jamie Luner - Actress, Savannah
Chris Brunecz -comedian (King of Late Night)
RICK MORANIS - ACTOR
Harold Robbins - ne Rubin. Best selling author
Chaim Soutine - Fauvist painter; friend of Modigliani
Carrie Fisher- author, actress (Star Wars)

 


How the Jewish-Zionist Grip on American Film and Television Promotes Bias Against Arabs and Muslims

Abdullah Mohammad Sindi

Abdullah Mohammad Sindi, a native of Saudi Arabia, lives and works in California. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from California State University, Sacramento. In 1978 Sindi received a doctorate in international relations from the University of Southern California. He has also studied at the University of Grenoble (France), the University of Poitiers in Tours (France), the University of Liege (Belgium), and at Indiana University (Bloomington). He also conducted research at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (New York).

In Saudi Arabia Sindi served as a professor at the Institute of Diplomatic Studies (Jeddah), and as an assistant professor at King Abdulaziz University. In the United States he has taught at the University of California, Irvine, California State University in Pomona, Cerritos Junior College, and Fullerton Junior College.

This essay is adapted from the first chapter of his forthcoming book, The Arabs and the West: The Contributions and the Inflictions (1999).


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Unquestionably the most powerful molder of opinion in the world today is the American global media, and especially the Hollywood motion picture industry. Ever since Zionist Jews forcibly established the State of Israel on the land of Arab Palestine in 1948 (with a great deal of American help), and as Arabs and Israelis have struggled for control of this land in the years since, Hollywood and the rest of American mass media have carried out a campaign to disparage Arabs and tarnish their image.

American motion pictures and television -- which have promoted negative images of non-Caucasians, including Native Americans, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Asian-Americans -- since the 1950s have singled out Arabs and Muslims, more often than any other ethnic-religious group, as objects of hatred, contempt, and derision. (Because Arabs are the world's most numerous Semitic group, this hostility against them is literally anti-Semitic.)

'Villain of Choice'

In American television, writes Professor Shaheen, "the villain of choice today is the Arab." He also says: "To be an Arab in America today is to be an object of contempt and ridicule by television under the guise of entertainment. To me this anti-Arab image on entertainment manifests itself in the politics of America." note

Misconceptions

This media campaign fosters numerous misconceptions about Arabs and their prevailing religion, Islam. For example, although Arabs have lived for centuries in thriving metropolitan centers such as Rabat, Algiers, Alexandria, Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Beirut, Mecca (Makkah) and Baghdad, and have built complex, civilized societies across the Arab world, as well as in Europe's Iberian Peninsula, many Westerners have been persuaded to believe that Arabs are typically uncultured nomads who live in desert tents.

Similarly, while many Americans regard OPEC -- the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries -- as synonymous with Arabs and the Arab world, and while the US media routinely blames Arabs whenever OPEC decides to raise oil prices, in fact six of the 13 OPEC member states are not Arab.

Also typically, American television and motion pictures often depict Arabs and Muslims, uniquely, as religious bigots, lacking any tolerance for the religious sensibilities of others. In fact, for much of history, Islam has been more tolerant of Christianity (and of Judaism) than vice versa. Moreover, it was Jewish Zionists who established Israel, in the "promised land" of Palestine, as a state exclusively for the "chosen people."

While the Arabic word "Allah" is often invoked in American films in a way designed to evoke derision and cynicism, conjuring an image of some weird pagan deity, in fact "Allah" is simply the Arabic word for God. Not only Arab Muslims, but Arab Christians and even Arab Jews, use this word as their term for God.

Although officially classified by US government agencies as "White" or "Caucasian," Arabs (and particularly Arab men) are sometimes depicted in American television and movies as Negroid blacks, reinforcing a derogatory image of Arabs as so-called "sand niggers."

"Terrorists" are active all over the world, in countries as diverse as Britain, Italy, Ireland, Russia, Germany, Spain, Japan, Israel, and the United States. (The terrorist record of the Jewish Defense League, for example, is well documented. In 1985 the FBI named the JDL as the second most active terrorist groups in the US.)note However, Hollywood has done much to encourage Americans to associate "terrorists" with Arabs (especially Palestinians), and Muslim "militants."

Arab Takeover?

Highly-publicized Arab purchases of some US corporations in the 1970s and 1980s set off hysterical cries in this country's periodical press and electronic media about the danger of Arabs allegedly "buying up" America. In reality, these purchases were unexceptional, no different than numerous other cross-border investments carried out routinely around the world over the last century. Actually, during the 1980s Canada, Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Japan accounted for nearly 90 percent of direct foreign investment in the US. Direct foreign investment from OPEC member countries, the US Department of Commerce reported, accounted for less than one percent of the total.note

Jewish Power in Hollywood

Negative images of Arabs in American motion pictures are hardly surprising given the major role played by Jews and other supporters of Zionism in Hollywood. In his 1988 study, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, Jewish author Neal Gabler shows that Jews established all of the major American film studios, including Columbia, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Universal, and Twentieth-Century Fox. The American film industry, writes Gabler, note

was founded ... and operated by Eastern European Jews ... And when sound movies commandeered the industry, Hollywood was invaded by a battalion of Jewish writers, mostly from the East. The most powerful talent agencies were run by Jews. Jewish lawyers transacted most of the industry's business and Jewish doctors ministered to the industry's sick. Above all, Jews produced the movies ... All of which led F. Scott Fitzgerald to characterize Hollywood carpingly as "a Jewish holiday, a gentiles [sic] tragedy."

So rapidly did Jews come to dominate Hollywood that as early as 1921 Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent was moved to fulminate that American motion pictures arenote

Jew-controlled, not in spots only, not 50 percent merely, but entirely; with the natural consequence that now the world is in arms against the trivializing and demoralizing influences of that form of entertainment as presently managed ... As soon as the Jews gained control of the "movies," we had a movie problem, the consequences of which are not yet visible.

In his detailed 1994 study, Sacred Chain: A History of the Jews, New York University professor Norman F. Cantor, pointed out that Hollywood film production and distribution was "almost completely dominated in the first 50 years of its existence by immigrant Jews and is still dominated at its top level by Jews ... The last Gentile bastion in Hollywood, the Disney studio, came under Jewish executive leadership in the early 1990s."note

Jewish historian and journalist Jonathan J. Goldberg, makes a similar point in his 1996 survey, Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment. He writes: note

... Jews are represented in the media business in numbers far out of proportion to their share of the population ... In a few key sectors of the media, notably among Hollywood studio executives, Jews are so numerically dominant that calling these businesses Jewish-controlled is little more than a statistical observation.

Hollywood at the end of the twentieth century is still an industry with a pronounced ethnic tinge. Virtually all the senior executives at the major studios are Jews. Writers, producers, and to a lesser degree directors, are disproportionately Jews -- one recent study showed the figure as high as 59 percent among top-grossing films.

The combined weight of so many Jews in one of America's most lucrative and important industries gives the Jews of Hollywood a great deal of political power. They are a major source of money for Democratic candidates. The industry's informal patriarch, MCA chairman Lew Wasserman, wields tremendous personal clout in state and national politics ...

Hollywood's Jewish executives greeted the founding of Israel in 1948 with ecstasy. One Jewish film executive, Robert Blumofe, later recalled the euphoric mood of the time: "And suddenly Israel, even to the least Jewish of us, represented status of some sort. It meant that we did have a homeland. It meant that we did have an identity ... All of this was terribly, terribly uplifting." note

In the decades since, Hollywood has presented an image of Arabs that is often cruel and barbaric. Manifesting its support for Israel, and its opposition to the Arab and Muslim worlds, which have strongly opposed the invasive Zionist state, Hollywood developed a cinema genre around the Arab-Israeli conflict. In this spirit, Hollywood has produced numerous "good guy/bad guy" films over the last 50 years, simplistically portraying heroic and righteous Israeli Jews prevailing against treacherous and barbaric Arabs. During the 1960s alone, at least ten such major Hollywood films were produced. note

In such films, Israeli Jews and their American friends are frequently played by popular and good-looking Jewish-American actors such as Paul Newman, Tony Curtis, and Kirk Douglas, as well as handsome non-Jewish actors such as Yul Brynner, John Wayne, Jane Fonda, Frank Sinatra, Charlton Heston, George Peppard, Rock Hudson, Sal Mineo, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arabs, predictably, are routinely portrayed as and cruel, cynical, and ugly.

During a publicity interview for her 1981 film "Rollover" (in which "the Arabs" destroy the world financial system), actress Jane Fonda, "the progressive leftist" of the 1960s, bluntly expressed her own bigoted view of Arabs: "If we are not afraid of the Arabs, we'd better examine our heads. They have strategic power over us. They are unstable, they are fundamentalists, tyrants, anti-women, anti-free press."note

It is not possible to recount here all of Hollywood's many anti-Arab or anti-Muslim pictures over the last several decades, but here are some representative productions:

In "Exodus" (1960), brutal Arabs kill an attractive 15-year-old Jewish girl played by Jill Hayworth; in "Cast a Giant Shadow" (1966), Arabs leer and laugh as they shoot an Israeli woman trapped in a truck; in "Network" (1976, and winner of four Academy Awards), a crusading television news commentator warns that Arabs, "the medieval fanatics," are taking control of the US; in "Black Sunday" (1977) an Israeli plays the hero, while Arabs are the villains and terrorists who want to kill Superbowl spectators, including the President of the United States; in "The Delta Force" (1986), "Iron Eagle" (1986), and "Death Before Dishonor" (1987), Hollywood shows viewers how to deal decisively with the low-life, no-good, dirty Arab terrorists; in the Disney studio's animated film production, "Aladdin" (1992), the theme song brazenly refers to Arabia as barbaric ("It's barbaric, but hey, it's home"); in "True Lies" (1994), an Arab terrorist with nuclear weapons has to be stopped; in "Executive Decision" (1996) yet another group of Arab militants hijacks an American plane; and in "Kazaam" (1996), an Arab criminal and a black genie enjoy eating a "centuries-old Arab delicacy," a plate of goats' eyes.

More recent motion pictures with negative images of Arabs or Muslims include "Not Without My Daughter" and "The Siege." In "The Siege," Muslims wage a bombing campaign against innocent Americans. In response, federal authorities declare martial law and carry out mass arrests of Muslims and Arabs across the United States.note

Television

It is difficult to exaggerate the role played by television in shaping the mindset and outlook of the American people. Dr. George Gerbner, former Dean of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, put it this way: "Television, more than any single institution, molds American behavioral norms and values. And the more TV we watch, the more we tend to believe in the world according to TV, even though much of what we see is misleading."note

Like the US motion picture industry, American television is dominated by Jews and supporters of Zionism. While American Jews constitute only about two or three percent of the US population,note Irving Pearlberg, a Jewish-American television writer, maintains that no less than 40 percent of American television writers are Jewish.note During the early 1990s, notes New York University professor Norman Cantor, "one TV network was already headed by a Jew (Laurence Tisch at CBS), and Jews are prominent executives and producers at the other two major networks as well."note

Ben Stein, Jewish-American author of The View From Sunset Boulevard, forthrightly acknowledged: note

A distinct majority, especially of the writers of situation comedies, is Jewish ... TV people have certain likes ... and dislikes ... and these likes and dislikes are translated into television programming. In turn, this problem raises the public acceptance of the favored groups and the public dislikes of the resented groups.

Given this reality, it is hardly surprising that one rarely, if ever, sees a Jewish or Israeli figure portrayed as a villain on American television. On the contrary, Israelis in particular and the Jews in general are routinely portrayed in the American mass media as heroic, insightful, sophisticated, witty, intelligent, compassionate, physically attractive, confident, humane, and successful.

On the other hand, like the Arab in Hollywood movies, the US television Arab is often physically unappealing, wealthy, stupid, sexist, crude, lazy, uncultured, cruel, rude, greedy, fanatical, anti-American, and anti-Christian. He is often portrayed as a terrorist, a plane hijacker, a polygamist, a sex-maniac, a hostage-taker, a murderer, a kidnapper of young blond-haired, blue-eyed women, an as an oil sheikh blackmailer, and oddly dressed (often in a red-checkered kuffiyyah headdress, or in ungainly gowns or robes).

News reporting on American television, as well as its presentations of history and other serious subjects, routinely has a distinctly pro-Israeli or pro-Jewish slant. This is understandable, of course, given the prominent role of Jews in television news departments, and the many Jews (often with obvious Zionist biases) employed as reporters, frequently covering the Arab-Israeli conflict or the Middle East generally.

Seldom does America's Zionist-oriented media fairly present the Arab or Muslim point of view, particularly on such issues as the plight of displaced Palestinians, oil politics, or the struggle against Western imperialism. For example, the Zionists who invaded Arab Palestine during the 1930s and 40s, are frequently (and misleadingly) referred to as "homeless" Jews. Similarly, Israeli military actions against Arabs over the last 50 years are routinely justified as acts of "retaliation" against Palestinian and Arab aggression or terrorism.

Whereas the Zionist-Jewish point of view is frequently presented on American television without challenge, the Arab or Muslim point of view (when is even adequately given) is often presented only together with a "balancing" Zionist-Jewish perspective.

In addition to producing films and programming that are supportive of Israel, and distorting the views and positions of Arabs and Muslims (especially with regard to the struggle against the Zionist occupation of Palestine), Hollywood and the American television networks effectively censor pro-Arab and pro-Muslim motion pictures and television programming. During the 1970s, for example, American motion picture theaters and television networks boycotted and "killed" a pro-Palestinian film produced by Vanessa Redgrave, the well-known British actress and leftist activist.

James McCartney, a veteran American journalist, once said what many Arabs and Muslims have thought for decades: note

It is my personal belief that if the media as a whole in the western world had done an adequate job in reporting from the Middle East, it would not have been necessary for the Palestinians to resort to violence to draw attention to their case.

Christian Apologists

Many non-Jews also help promote a distorted pro-Zionist and anti-Arab portrayal of the past and present on American television. This is especially true of the Christian fundamentalist "televangelists" -- such as Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggert, Jim Bakker, Jerry Falwell, and Oral Roberts -- who have dominated America's "religious" broadcasting. These passionate defenders of Israel and Zionism show no sympathy for the plight of fellow Christians under Zionist rule, but even castigate Christian and Muslim Palestinians for resisting Zionist oppression and the Jewish subjugation of their historic homeland. This is not only tragic, but ironic in light of the fact that Israel treats the Christians (and Muslims) under its rule essentially as second-class citizens.

Such apologists for Israel often engage in gross distortions of history. For example, some Christian televangelists cite alleged massacres of Hebrews in ancient times (portrayed as the equivalent of modern Israelis) at the hands of the Assyrians (who are portrayed as the equivalent of modern-day Arab Syrians), and at the hands of the Babylonians (portrayed as the equivalent of modern-day Arab Iraqis). Ignored, however, is any mention of the numerous ancient Hebrew massacres of Philistines (the ancestors of today's Palestinians), as reported in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). In the Sixth Chapter of the book of Joshua, for example, we read as follows: "And they [Hebrews] utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and ass, with the edge of the sword." note

Pervasive Negative Images

In his detailed study, The TV Arab, Arab-American scholar Jack G. Shaheen -- professor emeritus of broadcast journalism at Southern Illinois University -- documents pervasive negative imagery of Arabs by all American television networks, and by practically all leading newscasters and personalities working for them. For this book, Dr. Shaheen examined more than 100 popular television programs, totaling nearly 200 episodes, and interviewed numerous television executives, producers, and writers. American television, concludes Dr. Shaheen -- including popular entertainment, comedy, drama, documentaries, news, and even sports and religious and children's broadcasting -- across the board has, at one time or another, presented distorted and demeaning images of Arabs.

In addition to Hollywood movies and scripted television programming, viewers can also find "humorous" Arab bashing on live, unscripted television broadcasting, even by prominent TV personalities. To get a laugh from a television talk show audience, Merv Griffin (who is not Jewish) once brazenly equated Arabs with animals: "If you lie down with Arabs, [you] get up with fleas." Once, referring to traditional Arab dress and fashion, Jewish television comedienne Joan Rivers laughingly told her viewers: "I can never tell if it's the wife or the husband because they're all in bedsheets." And Jewish comedian Alan King once disparagingly frowned when describing the traditional clothing of Sultan Qaboos of Oman, saying: "What the hell is he dressed up for? Oman's got eleven people and a goat." note

Even programming aimed at children has not been free of demeaning portrayals of Arabs. Among the popular animated cartoon characters who have fomented derogatory or hateful images of Arabs, Dr. Shaheen shows, have been Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Goofy, Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, Scooby-Doo, Heckle and Jeckle, Porky Pig, Plastic Man, Richy Rich, Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs, and Duck Tales.

Pressing for Explanations

In interviews with American television executives, Dr. Shaheen pressed for an explanation for the hypocrisy and lack of decency and self-restraint in this pattern of Arab stereotyping on TV. Many of those questioned, he reports, were "embarrassed," and reluctantly acknowledged the widespread disparagement of Arabs, without, however, explaining the reasons for such prejudiced imagery.

Donn O'Brien, CBS vice president of broadcast standards, sheepishly admitted to Shaheen that he had never seen a "good Arab" on American television, and that Arabs are routinely presented as covetous desert rulers or as warmongers. "Arabs are rarely portrayed as good guys," acknowledged Frank Glicksman, a Jewish-American TV producer in Los Angeles. "I've never seen them portrayed as anything but heavies in melodrama. That, I feel, is unfair." Another Hollywood television producer, Don Brinkley, conceded: "The depiction of the Arab on television is generally horrendous." And George Watson, vice president of ABC News, admitted: "Arabs have not been seen to be as real, as close, or as tangible, either as individuals or as a group, as the Israelis ..." note

Not all television executives were as forthcoming, however. Jewish television producer Meta Rosenberg, for example, bluntly responded to Shaheen's inquiry by saying that she did not care about the Arabs, and considered the Arab-American community -- which now numbers well over three million -- to be "insignificant." Shaheen also contacted Norman Lear, one of America's most successful and influential television producers. Among his popular and innovative hit shows have been "All in the Family," and "The Jeffersons." In none of his numerous productions, Shaheen notes, has this Jewish executive ever presented a humane Arab. Lear simply refused to meet with Shaheen, answer any of his multiple letters, or even talk to him by phone. note

More than a few of those who work in the media, including some Jews, have expressed concern over the pattern of Arab bashing in American motion pictures and television. Journalist John Cooley, for example, acknowledged that "no other ethnic group in America would willingly submit to what Arabs and Muslims in general have faced in the United States media."note Columnist Nicholas Von Hoffman, writing in the Washington Post, told readers that "no national, religious or cultural group... has been so massively and consistently vilified" as the Arabs. Jewish writer Meg Greenfield, a veteran Washington Post columnist, expressed the view that "there is a dehumanizing, circular process at work here. The caricature dehumanizes ... [But the caricature] is inspired and made acceptable by an earlier dehumanizing influence, namely an absence of feeling for who the Arabs are and where they have been." And Steve Bell of ABC News said simply: "The Arab is no doubt a current victim of stereotyping not only on television, but throughout the mass media in the United States." note

High Price of Speaking Out

Although criticism of specific Israeli policies is permissible in the United States, it is more or less forbidden to express fundamental criticism of the Zionist state, of America's basic policy of support for Israel, or of the Jewish-Zionist grip on the US media or America's political and academic life. (Remarkably, this is in contrast to the situation in Israel itself, where Jews and even Arab citizens of the Zionist state have much greater freedom than Americans publicly to criticize Zionism and Israeli policies.)

Prominent persons who dare to violate this prohibition are immediately castigated as "anti-Semitic" (that is, anti-Jewish), and pay a heavy price in damage to their reputations or careers. Politicians who publicly speak out against America's support for Zionism risk almost certain political ruin. Among the political or governmental figures whose careers were destroyed because they violated the powerful taboo have been US Senators William Fulbright, Adlai Stevenson III, and Charles Percy, Congressmen Paul McCloskey and Paul Findley, and Deputy Secretary of State George Ball. note

Those who merely "slip up" are obliged to recant. Thus, Marlon Brando was promptly and severely chastised after criticizing Jewish Hollywood producers and executives for promoting vicious racist stereotyping of minorities. Even though what the well-known actor had said during an April 1996 broadcast interview with Larry King was demonstrably true, a short time later Brando was forced to issue a craven apology.

Sometimes the price for speaking out is more severe than the defaming of one's reputation or the ruin of one's career. On October 11, 1985, Alex Odeh, the West Coast regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, was killed in a bomb blast when he entered his group's office in Santa Ana, southern California. The previous evening the Palestinian-born Odeh had appeared on a local news show to present an Arab perspective on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The FBI announced that the Jewish Defense League (JDL) was responsible for the murder of Odeh, and at least two other terrorist incidents. The three JDL associates who were suspected of carrying out the killing fled to Israel to avoid punishment. No one has ever been tried for the murder of Alex Odeh. note

Hate Crimes

Unlike other minority groups in the United States, Arab-Americans have had to endure hostility not only from ignorant and prejudiced individuals, but in addition from powerful Jewish-Zionist elements in the mass media.

For one thing, television and print journalists often identify Arab-Americans or Muslim-Americans who are suspected of crimes by their ethnic or religious origin, a practice that incites already latent public prejudice and hatred. Thus one can find newspaper reports with headlines such as "Arabs Battle Police" or "Muslims are Arrested." Non-Arab criminal suspects are rarely, if ever, similarly identified by ethnic or religious origin.

Whenever acts of terrorism take place against the US or Israel, or the US or Israel is involved in military conflicts with Arab countries or groups, ordinary Arab-Americans become victims of hate.

As a result of the US-led military action against Iraq in late 1990 and January 1991, for example, hate crimes against Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans, including arson, bombings, and assaults, tripled.note Incidents of harassment and physical attacks against Arab-Americans similarly increased across the country in the wake of the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City, and of the April 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bombing. Arab-Americans were targeted as if they were personally responsible for these terrorist attacks.

Immediately following the Oklahoma City bombing, some reporters, such as CNN's Wolf Blitzer, accused Arabs of this act of terrorism. Similarly, CBS newswoman Connie Chung declared: "US government sources told CBS News that [the bombing] has Middle East terrorism written all over it."note Even after Timothy McVeigh was arrested and indicted for the Oklahoma City bombing, New York Times columnist A. M. Rosenthal baldly asserted that "most other attacks against Americans came from the Middle East." note

As a result of such hasty and false accusations, in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing there were 227 reported incidents of hostility, both violent and non-violet, against Arabs and Muslims across the US. note Men and women of Arab origin were insulted, threatened, cursed, picketed, spat on, and, in a few cases, physically attacked. Vandals broke into homes of Arab-Americans and destroyed property. Other hoodlums vandalized Arab-American businesses and other properties, spray-painting hateful slogans such as "Why don't you terrorists go back to your own country," "Get out of America," "You're not Americans," "You dirty Arabs," "You don't belong here," "Go back home," and "You will pay for this." note

In 1997, reports the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Washington, DC), there were 280 incidents of anti-Muslim violence, discrimination, stereotyping, bias and harassment last year in the United States. This is an increase of 18 percent in such incidents over the previous year.note The full scope of the and anxiety, fear and humiliation endured by individual Arab-Americans is obviously impossible to measure, but unquestionably many individual Arab-Americans have suffered in their personal, social, and professional lives, particularly if they are immigrants or first-generation citizens who (like this writer) speak English with an accent. note

Some Arab-Americans have chosen to endure such bigotry and prejudice in silence. Others have responded by returning to their countries of origin, or by denying or concealing their heritage. Quite a few have "Americanized" or "Westernized" their first and last names, in an effort to "pass" as southern- or eastern-Europeans. Early in his career acclaimed motion picture actor F. Murray Abraham (who received an "Oscar" for his role in "Amadeus"), sought to escape prejudice by hiding his Arab identity.

Ominous Implications

Summing up the deplorable situation, Professor Shaheen has stated: note

Because Arabs and Arab civilization are held in contempt by many in Hollywood, many Americans and their political representatives have few if any positive feelings about Arabs. Their impressions are based in part on the clouded image of the TV screen ... Stereotyping tends to be self-perpetuating, providing not only information but ... "pictures in our heads." These pictures of Arabs reinforce and sharpen viewer prejudices. Television shows are entertainment, but they are also symbols ... A villain is needed in [television and motion picture] conflicts that pit good against evil. Today's villain is the Arab... depicted as the murderous white-slaver, the dope dealer, the fanatic ... To make matters worse ... America's TV image of the Arab is marketed throughout the world ...

Non-Jewish Americans are also victims of the Jewish-Zionist grip on America's motion picture and television industries, propagandistically manipulated by alien interests that foment artificial distrust and enmity between peoples who, objectively, have no conflicting interests.

The hostility and prejudice against Arabs and Muslims engendered by Hollywood and US television infects not only tens of millions of Americans, but also hundreds of millions of credulous viewers worldwide. Such noxious propaganda over a period of decades inevitably has grave long-term consequences. This flood of ethnic-religious poison understandably produces deep resentment among hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims around the globe -- creating a vast and growing reservoir of resentment and rage that one day will almost certainly erupt with terrible fury.

Notes

  1. Jack G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, 1984), p. 11; Quoted in: Richard H. Curtiss, A Changing Image: American Perceptions of the Arab-Israeli Dispute (Washington, DC: American Educational Trust, 1982), p. 153.
  2. Mark Weber, The Zionist Terror Network: Background and Operation of the Jewish Defense League and Other Criminal Zionist Groups (Institute for Historical Review, 1993), p. 6.
  3. J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (1984), p. 13.
  4. Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (New York: Doubleday [and Crown], 1988), pp. 1-2.
  5. Quoted in: N. Gabler, An Empire of Their Own (1988), p. 277.
  6. Norman F. Cantor, Sacred Chain: A History of the Jews (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), pp. 390, 401.
  7. Jonathan J. Goldberg, Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment (Addison-Wesley, 1996), pp. 280, 287-288. This book was reviewed in the March-April 1998 Journal, pp. 37-38.
  8. Quoted in: N. Gabler, An Empire of Their Own (1988), p. 350.
  9. Michael Parenti, Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), p. 30.
  10. Quoted in: M. Parenti, Make-Believe Media, p. 30.
  11. Faisal Kutty, Bushira Yousuf, "Hollywood's View of Arabs, Muslims," Toronto Star, Sept. 14, 1998. Reprinted in "Other Voices" supplement to The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Washington, DC), December 1998, p. S-10.
  12. Quoted in: Jack G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (1984), p. 7.
  13. 1997 Britannica Book of the Year (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica), pp. 311, 739.
  14. Quoted in: J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (1984), p. 127.
  15. Norman F. Cantor, Sacred Chain (cited above), p. 401.
  16. Quoted in: J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (1984), pp. 127-8.
  17. Quoted in: Richard H. Curtiss, A Changing Image: American Perceptions of the Arab-Israeli Dispute (citied above), p. 145.
  18. Joshua 6: 21-14. See also, for example, Exodus 32: 26-29; Numbers 21: 2-3, 31-35; Deuteronomy 2: 34-35, 3:6, 7: 1-5, 20: 13-17; Joshua 8: 24-29, 10: 28-40, 11: 7-8, 14, 21-23; 2 Kings 10: 17, 30. For more on this, see: Mohammad T. Mehdi, Terrorism: Why America is the Target (New York: New World Press, 1998), p. 66.
  19. Quoted in: J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (cited above), pp. 67, 57.
  20. J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (1984), pp. 114, 70, 111.
  21. J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (1984), pp. 127, 62.
  22. Quoted in: R. H. Curtiss, A Changing Image (1982), p. 153.
  23. Quoted in: J. G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (1984), pp. 122, 7, and back cover.
  24. For details see: Paul Findley, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby (Westport, Conn.: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1985). See also: Alfred M. Lilienthal, The Zionist Connection (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1978).
  25. M. Weber, The Zionist Terror Network (1993), esp. pp. 5-6.
  26. Richard Wormser, American Islam: Growing Up Muslim in America (New York: Walker & Co., 1994) p. 121.
  27. Quoted in: Terry Allen, "Professional Arab-Bashing," Covert Action Quarterly, No. 53, Summer 1995, p. 20.
  28. Quoted in: T. Allen, "Professional Arab-Bashing," Covert Action Quarterly, Summer 1995, p. 21.
  29. T. Allen, "Professional Arab-Bashing," Covert Action Quarterly, Summer 1995, p. 21.
  30. Ann Talamus, "War in the Gulf, Repression at Home: FBI Targets Arab-Americans" Covert Action Quarterly, No. 36, Spring 1991, pp. 4-8; R. Wormser, American Islam (cited above), p. 4.
  31. F. Kutty, B. Yousuf, "Hollywood's View of Arabs, Muslims," Toronto Star, Sept. 14, 1998 (cited above).
  32. As an Arab I have faced ethnic-based hostility, from both Jews and Christians, in my academic career. During the 1980s and 1990s, when I taught at four different southern California universities and colleges, I was denied promotion.
  33. Quoted in: R. H. Curtiss, A Changing Image (cited above), p. 153.

 

Abdullah Mohammad Sindi, a native of Saudi Arabia, lives and works in California. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from California State University, Sacramento. In 1978 Sindi received a doctorate in international relations from the University of Southern California. He has also studied at the University of Grenoble (France), the University of Poitiers in Tours (France), the University of Liege (Belgium), and at Indiana University (Bloomington). He also conducted research at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (New York).

In Saudi Arabia Sindi served as a professor at the Institute of Diplomatic Studies (Jeddah), and as an assistant professor at King Abdulaziz University. In the United States he has taught at the University of California, Irvine, California State University in Pomona, Cerritos Junior College, and Fullerton Junior College.

This essay is adapted from the first chapter of his forthcoming book, The Arabs and the West: The Contributions and the Inflictions (1999).


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