Ten Jews That I Admire Beyond Measure

Whenever I criticize Israel, Zionists use the identity trick. In the past, I’ve just pointed them to Why Zionists Love Identity Politics: The long history of deflecting criticism by insisting anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, but sometimes I name a few of the Jews I admire immeasurably. I decided to make ten of them the subject of this post. Mind you, they aren’t my ten favorite Jews. I have too many favorites to limit myself to ten, and though I’m listing them, I’m not ranking them because they’re not meant to be equally important. They’re just the first ten Jews I thought of when I decided to list Jews I especially admire.

Albert Einstein

Einstein was my first Jewish hero. I respected him as a boy when I learned about the Theory of Relativity; I loved him as a man when I learned he was a socialist.

“I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion.” — Albert Einstein

Karl Marx

Even his smart critics admit Marx was brilliant and advise anyone who wants to understand capitalism to read him. Perhaps…