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Friday, March 07, 2025

EoZ - influencing the influencers

I sometimes wonder how influential the Elder of Ziyon blog is.

While my 116,000 X followers clearly puts me in "influencer" territory, that doesn't necessarily mean I'm influential. I usually don't make the lists of "Top Influencers on Social Media."

For example, I found a list made last year by Masa of the top 21 influential pro-Israel and Jewish people on X. I'm not there.

Out of 19 of them currently on X, 12 of them (63%) follow me:

@rudy_israel

- Follows

@elderofziyon

@Shaidavidai

- Follows

@elderofziyon

@adelacojab

- Does not follow

@elderofziyon

@noybeyleyb

- Follows

@elderofziyon

@EylonALevy

- Follows

@elderofziyon

@Kami

.Soprano - Does not follow

@elderofziyon

@yoavdavis

- Follows

@elderofziyon

@millennialmoor

- Does not follow

@elderofziyon

@Jews_of_Ny

- Follows

@elderofziyon

@tlvinstitute

- Follows

@elderofziyon

@noatishby

- Follows

@elderofziyon

@jewishhistory

- Does not follow

@elderofziyon

@houseoflev

- Follows

@elderofziyon

@melissaschapman

- Does not follow

@elderofziyon

@jordyntilchen

- Does not follow

@elderofziyon

@Jewishvibes

- Follows

@elderofziyon

@EndJewHatred

- Follows

@elderofziyon

@alizalicht

- Does not follow

@elderofziyon

@wearetov

- Follows

@elderofziyon

Looking at the top 50 pro-Israel influencers listed in 2021, out of 41 with X handles today, 22 of them - 54% - follow me. And that includes more than just activists but also celebrities that are really not my usual audience.

If I am reaching over half of the people recognized as influencers, I'm pretty happy with that!

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Arab paper: "Jews are the biggest US philanthropists. That proves how dangerous they are!"

One of the most fascinating thing about antisemites is that even when Jews and the Jewish state do things that are unequivocally good, they frame it as bad.

Arabi21.com refers to a report from Philanthropy.com where, the Arab site claims, Jews are vastly overrepresented as donors to charity in the US. Check out this headline:

A third of the largest donors in the United States are Jews... "They gain wide influence"

The Arabi21 article points out that Michael Bloomberg is by far the biggest donor, with $3.7 billion in 2024, followed by Michael Dell and his wife (#3, $1.4 billion), Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife (#5, $1.1 billion), Google founder Sergey Brin (#15, $205 million) and Sheryl Sandberg (#23, $125 million.)

They give the bulk of their charity to the arts, medical centers, universities and social programs. Arabi21, of course, highlights the relatively small amounts some of them gave to help Israel, noting Sandberg declared her “support for the Israeli women who were victims of sexual crimes committed by Hamas during the October 7, 2023 massacre."

It concludes that "Many critics argue that the philanthropic influence of education and health gives them political clout and allows them to control the public narrative."

I don't remember any Arabic articles about how much Arab countries give to US universities, specifically to influence their curricula.

The difference is that when Arab nations donate to US entities like universities, the money is specifically aligned with their political program - influence is the the major reason for the donations. When Michael Bloomberg pays the tuition for all of for Johns Hopkins University medical students, he gains nothing politically, and Jews gain nothing politically.

This is just another antisemitic conspiracy theory, assuming all Jews think the same way and have the same political goals, which is pretty crazy. But it is quickly believed by antisemites.

And that is how Jews giving charity is spun into being just another part of our evil plot to take over the world.

By the way, just to show that there is no daylight between Arab anti-Zionism and antisemitism, here is how the Arabi21 article on American Jewish philanthropists was illustrated.