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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-09-17 14:33:32)
I asked Claude about the representation of pro and anti israel voices among the billionaire class, usually Claude hedges a lot on very controversial topics, but in this case it just gave up and said "none". It's actually not right, there is one, George Soros, which it admitted after I had it do an exhaustive web search instead of relying on its own internal memory.


if we look at vocal pro israel billionaires (so like, zionist, not necessarily jewish) , what is their representation among their class? how many, compared to prominent billionaires who have spoken out about palestinian mistreatment?


Based on what's actually documented (rather than a comprehensive survey, which doesn't exist), the asymmetry is stark and one-sided.

The pro-Israel side is a long, easily-documented list Publications (Forbes-adjacent outlets, Jerusalem Post's "Most Influential Jews" lists, advocacy press) readily compile dozens of billionaires as prominent, vocal supporters: Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, Bill Ackman, Larry Ellison, Robert Kraft, Michael Bloomberg, Haim Saban, Leslie Wexner, Paul Singer, Bernard Marcus, Leon Cooperman, Ronald Lauder, Isaac Perlmutter, Daniel Gilbert, Ira Rennert, Sam Zell, David Green, Michael Dell, Barry Sternlicht, and Safra Catz, among others. This isn't a fringe list assembled by one outlet — it recurs across mainstream business press, advocacy organizations, and critical media alike, because their advocacy (donations to IDF-support charities, campus interventions, media campaigns, PAC funding) is public and well-documented.

The counter-list is essentially empty I could not find a comparably prominent billionaire who has taken a similarly public, sustained stance criticizing Israel's conduct toward Palestinians — using terms like "genocide," "war crimes," or comparably strong language, the way heads of state (Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Brazil's Lula) or senators (Bernie Sanders, who is not a billionaire) have done. What I found instead was
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-09-17 14:37:10)
I then went further and asked it to split out the zionist billionaires into jewish, christian, or other. based on public statements, one billionaire, the hobby lobby founder was christian, and the others were all jewish, and none fell into the "other" category.

again this thing is not trustworthy  but it's given me a good place to start learning more.