RETRACTED ARTICLE: The “Default Hypothesis” Fails to Explain Jewish Influence

Abstract

The role of Jewish activism in the transformative changes that have occurred in the West in recent decades continues to be controversial. Here I respond to several issues putatively related to Jewish influence, particularly the “default hypothesis” that Jewish IQ and urban residency explain Jewish influence and the role of the Jewish community in enacting the 1965 immigration law in the United States; other issues include Jewish ethnocentrism and intermarriage and whether diaspora Jews are hypocritical in their attitudes on immigration to Israel versus the United States. The post-World War II era saw the emergence of a new, substantially Jewish elite in America that exerted influence on a wide range of issues that formed a virtual consensus among Jewish activists and the organized Jewish community, including immigration, civil rights, and the secularization of American culture. Jewish activism in the pro-immigration movement involved: intellectual movements denying the importance of race in human affairs; establishing, staffing, and funding anti-restrictionist organizations; recruiting prominent non-Jews to anti-restrictionist organizations; rejecting the ethnic status quo as a goal because of fear of a relatively homogeneous white majority; leadership in Congress and the executive branch.

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“…That is, Jews are overrepresented in such leadership positions for the same reasons that they are overrepresented in almost all (non-anti-Semitic) cognitively demanding activities-primarily high mean intelligence . MacDonald's (2022) reply exhibits the same biased style of reasoning that characterizes both the antiwhite-supremacy and anti-Jewish literature.…”

“…Regarding liberal activism among Jews, I will address three key claims made by MacDonald (1998MacDonald ( /2002MacDonald ( , 2022): (a) Jews were a "necessary condition" for the spread of liberalism in the West (see, e.g., MacDonald, 1998MacDonald, /2002, (b) Jews were responsible for immigration policies-specifically, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which ended the national-origins quota system-that put Whites on track to become a minority in the USA, and (c) the Jews responsible for ending the quota system "intended" to turn Whites into a minority (see, e.g., ibid., p. 296).…”

“…My most recent exchange with MacDonald was published in the Israeli philosophy journal Philosophia (Cofnas, 2021;MacDonald, 2022). Philosophia was one of the few respectable journals in the field that had a reputation for publishing defenses of genuinely controversial ideas.…”