The Jewish people have contributed greatly to America. No group has had such an outsized influence per capita as all of you standing before you, and all of those who went before me and all of those who went before you.
You can't talk about the civil rights movement in this country without talking about Jewish freedom riders and Jack Greenberg. You can't talk about the women's movement without talking about Betty Friedan.
I believe what affects the movements in America, what affects our attitudes in America are as much the culture and the arts as anything else. It wasn't anything we legislatively did. It was 'Will and Grace,' it was the social media. Literally. That's what changed peoples' attitudes. Think behind of all that, I bet you 85 percent of those changes, whether it's in Hollywood or social media are a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry. The influence is immense, the influence is immense. And, I might add, it is all to the good.
Jewish heritage has shaped who we are – all of us, us, me – as much or more than any other factor in the last 223 years. And that's a fact.
So I think you, as usual, underestimate the impact of Jewish heritage. I really mean that. I think you vastly underestimate the impact you've had on the development of this nation. We owe you, we owe generations who came before you.
Joe Biden. Vice President of the United States. Speaking at the Jewish American Heritage Month reception in 2013. Quoted in "Biden: 'Jewish heritage is American heritage'"
When I was in the Mossad, and we had a guy that gave us problems in the US, and he was speaking out, and he was talking like… "Israel is bombing Lebanon with cluster bombs"… So what you do is you get in touch with the guy in a station in New York, or in a station in Washington, and you say 'tell the guys at B'nai B'rith to label him!'
And of course, the campaign starts and before you know it, the guy is labelled. And he's an Anti-Semite, because that's what we say he is. And that's one stain you cannot wash. Now, it shames me as a Jew to tell you that, but that's the fact, and it's wrong.
Victor Ostrovsky, Former Mossad agent. On CSpan, September 1, 1995
Alex [Soros] told me that for many years, his father [George Soros] had not been eager to advertise his Judaism because "this was something he was almost killed for." But he had always "identified firstly as a Jew," and his philanthropy was ultimately an expression of his Jewish identity, in that he felt a solidarity with other minority groups and also because he recognized that a Jew could only truly be safe in a world in which all minorities were protected. Explaining his father’s motives, he said, "The reason you fight for an open society is because that's the only society that you can live in, as a Jew — unless you become a nationalist and only fight for your own rights in your own state."
George Soros. Quoted in "George Soros Bet Big on Liberal Democracy. Now He Fears He Is Losing.". New York Times (2018, July 17).
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