ABSTRACT
Jews are imagined to have too much of it, which they intend to use for evil purposes. The cases examined here demonstrate how problematic such a proposition is, especially when applied to a people that historically has been more vulnerable than most. Nevertheless, like all living things, Jews do have a modicum of power that, in the context of the American democratic system, they use effectively, so much so that sometimes it appears greater than it is. The foregoing chapters demonstrate that in the American political context, identifying the wielders of power and calculating their infl uence and aspirations is at best an uncertain exercise. In the hands of Judeophobes, it culminates in an indictment of Jews for wielding a power that they do not, in fact, possess or exercise only within the permissible parameters of the American system of governance.
