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Who controls Israel's economy?

Updated: 8/22/2023
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The problem with questions like this is that they are seldom what they appear to be. On the surface, it looks as if the question is asking something like this: '1. How big is 'the economy' (American, European, global, by the way?) and 2. what percentage of it is controlled or owned by Jews?' This assumes a simple small-town setup, and one where everyone is either Jewish or non-Jewish.

Things are not like that, however. Major corporations are owned by shareholders, and the majority of shares are owned by institutions, such as pension funds and so on.

There is another serious problem with the question. Although such questions may be asked naively, there is a nearly always a sub-text, along the lines of: 'Do Jews (however defined) control the economy conspiratorially?' In other words, 'Do they put their heads together in order to run the economy in such a way as to further 'Jewish interests', 'Israeli interests'? etc. The question is not what it appears to be.

It is really a question about a conspiracy theory, and where broad conspiracy theories of this kind are concerned people usually believe what they want to.

Many asking such questions tend to want cast-iron disproof, but of course one cannot prove a negative. Worse still, the moment one lays one ghost, so to speak, another appears: people tend to widen the scope by claiming that more and more people are Jewish or of Jewish origin: and there is no way that anybody can prove online that so-and-so doesn't have a Jewish grandparent or great grandparent. The moment they come across someone in a corporation who has what looks to them like a Jewish name they start leaping up and down with excitement.

Perhaps the biggest 'giveway' that this kind of question isn't really what it appears to be is the fact that you almost never read or hear questions like 'Do the Italians (or Hungarians, Poles, etc) control the economy?' It's almost invariably about the Jews.

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Surprisingly, the old stereotype may actually prove true: the Jews (being its citizens).

Israel's economy is not "controlled" by anyone, but it is contributed to by Israeli firms, taxes, duties, and foreign aid. This is similar to any other capitalist country.

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