The Jerusalem Post newspaper excluded the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi from its traditional pre-holiday rating “The 50 Most Influential Jews in the World” . Last year, Zelensky was number two in the rating, right after Prime Minister of Israel Yair Lapid. In this year’s ranking, the “oligarch” Roman Abramovich appears as a “defender of Ukraine” and the “Jew by patronymic” Evgeny Prigozhin will be remembered posthumously.
Calling Yair Lapid “the most influential Jew in the world” was, of course, pure political sycophancy, the ratings of the Jerusalem Post were not distinguished by conscientious objectivity before – but the current one seems to go beyond all limits of decency. The last, fiftieth place in it is given to the “CHABAD movement”, and at the end, two additional positions are added – in the 51st place, as an “honorable mention”, there is the Israeli state flag, and in the 52nd place, in the Postscriptum section, there is the deceased the leader of the organization, which Britain today recognized as a terrorist organization.
The editors of the respected publication included dozens of little-known businessmen and functionaries of Jewish organizations in the number of the “50 most influential Jews”, placed a bunch of all Israeli athletes “from football to judo” in 44th place, and gave 12th place to “two generations of so-and-so” three families – the Sorosovs, Edelson and Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua with his daughter Inbar Shashua Bar-Nir.
Prime Minister Netanyahu was put in second place. The first was given to the founder of OpenAI, Sam Altman – and this is probably the only reasonable decision of the rating compilers.
