Time to Impose a Cost on Genocide: Seize Jewish Wealth

Here’s a little thought-experiment: Let’s say that the terrorism committed by Israel counts the same as any other form of terrorism and should be treated the same. Let’s apply existing US law to this situation, and see what we might conclude.

In September 2025, President Trump designated Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” This Executive Order draws on the earlier definition in the 2001 US Patriot Act of “domestic terrorism” as constituting “ideologically driven crimes committed by individuals in the United States that are intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence the policy or conduct of a government.” The EO notably targets not only the Antifa organization itself but also those who claim to act on behalf of the group or its ideology, and those who provide funding or other material support: “any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa provided material support, including…those who fund such operations.”

These are very helpful definitions; they are far more widely-applicable than perhaps the original authors realized or intended.

Ever since Israel began its genocidal assault on the people of Gaza in October 2023, it has been clear to the world that massive crimes against humanity were (and are) being committed there, and further that such ghastly actions would be impossible without the funding and support of the American government and of certain wealthy and influential American citizens. As such, the Israeli regime may be classified as an international terrorist entity, and those who provide funding or other material support may be classified as accomplices to terror, and effectively as members of that larger terrorist organization.

Further, those Americans who fund and support Israeli terror damage the American reputation globally, impose financial burdens on all Americans (via trade restrictions, withdrawn investments, etc.), and expose all Americans to risks of physical harm and even death from those who might seek to punish us for backing Israeli crimes. As such, Israel-supporters within the US constitute a domestic terror organization, one whose efforts directly sustain Israeli terror and which imposes very real costs and risks upon all innocent American citizens.

Let me apply the recent language from Section 1 of the Antifa EO, in slightly modified form, to this pro-Israel terrorist entity, which we may call the Pro-Israel Lobby:

The Pro-Israel Lobby (PIL) is a militarist, anarchist (formally leaderless) enterprise that explicitly calls for the support of the genocidal terrorist regime in Tel Aviv. It uses various means—legal, illegal, and unethical—to organize and execute a nationwide campaign to accomplish these goals. This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws, organized riots (such as on college campuses), violent assaults, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists who might oppose them. The PIL recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity, then employs elaborate means and mechanisms to shield the identities of its operatives, conceal its funding sources and operations in an effort to frustrate law enforcement, and recruit additional members. Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of the PIL further coordinate with other organizations and entities for the purpose of spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech opposing them. This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism.

It is a remarkably good fit with the original wording; surely the Trump administration, if it wishes to be legally and logically consistent, would have no qualms about extending such concepts to the Israel Lobby. But of course, that won’t happen.

And again, the key provision comes in Section 2: that legal actions shall be targeted against all those who “claim to act on behalf of” the terrorist entity, who “provide material support,” or “who fund such operations.”

Of further relevance is Executive Order #13224 signed by President G. W. Bush on 23 September 2001, which allows the government to disrupt, block, and ultimately seize assets of those who are domestic terrorists or who support such groups. Here is the relevant passage:

In general terms, the Order provides a means by which to disrupt the financial support network for terrorists and terrorist organizations, by authorizing the U.S. government to designate and block the assets of foreign individuals and entities that commit, or pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism. In addition, because of the pervasiveness and expansiveness of the financial foundations of foreign terrorists, the Order authorizes the U.S. government to block the assets of individuals and entities that provide support, services, or assistance to, or otherwise associate with, terrorists and terrorist organizations designated under the Order, as well as their subsidiaries, front organizations, agents, and associates.

Once again, a very helpful designation, one that has direct applicability to all those who continue to support pro-Israel terrorism via American domestic groups or persons.

The final step comes with the relevant civil and criminal forfeiture statues, as written in existing US Code (USC). For example, 18 U.S.C. allows for both civil (sec. 981) and criminal (sec. 982) seizure of assets—“even without a criminal conviction.” It is a three-step process: (1) designation of the group as a terrorist entity; (2) blocking or freezing assets; and then (3) forfeiture and seizure of assets. This, again, is standard procedure, involving well-established legal principles within the State Department, Treasury Department, and Department of Justice.

As we can see, all the legal pieces are in place: Israeli genocide—ongoing for over two years now, and claiming well over 100,000 Palestinian victims, mostly women and children—obviously and self-evidently establishes the Jewish state as a terrorist entity. Therefore, any domestic American organization or person who supports this terrorist entity, via funding, political cover, public indoctrination, or any other means, is itself guilty of complicity in terrorism. To again adopt the formal legal terminology: a guilty party is “any person claiming to act on behalf of Israel [which] provided material support, including…those who fund such operations.” As such, civil forfeiture laws allow the freezing and confiscation of all assets of such persons or organizations.

The Guilty Parties

So, who exactly are the guilty parties in the US? Anyone who provides funding, assistance, cover, or ideological support for Israel. This, sadly, encompasses a lot of people in the US—starting with the 6 million or so Jewish-American adults. From what we can tell, a large majority of American Jews support Israeli action against Gaza and US aid for it. Early in the genocide, it was reported that 74 percent supported Biden’s handling of the situation, grounded in his rabid pro-Israel stance. And more than 80 percent supported the US providing military resources (e.g. aircraft carriers) and billions in financial aid. Private wealth also flowed in; within one month of the October 7 attack, American Jews had raised $638 million in aid for Israel.

Recent polls, however, suggest a shift toward a more critical stance; one report claims that US Jews are now split almost 50/50 on whether or not they approve of Israel’s military conduct, with some 40 percent admitting that Israel is committing a genocide. Fair enough—but how many are prepared to take any concrete action against that nation or to impose any real cost on it? Very few, I suspect. Over three-quarters think that Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish state is “vital” to the future of Jews. A few years ago, Bari Weiss—now head of CBS News—stated that fully 95 percent of American Jews supported the Jewish state (drawing from this Gallup article). This accords with anecdotal evidence that at least 90 percent of US Jews are Zionists of some sort.

As I read this, nine out of ten American Jews are complicit in Israeli terrorism: they provide funding, votes, ideological defense, political cover, or other means of material support. According to standing laws then, 90 percent of Jewish wealth should be frozen and ultimately confiscated.

How much is this? We have no hard figures on Jewish wealth but we can make plausible inferences. Of the current top 10 richest Americans, at least six (60 percent) are Jews: Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Steve Ballmer, and Michael Dell. These six men alone possess around $1.1 trillion. Right behind them on the list are Michael Bloomberg ($109 billion), Jeff Yass ($66 billion), Stephen Schwarzman ($52 billion), and Miriam Adelson ($38 billion). Estimates from recent years have suggested that about 30 percent of all multimillionaires in the US are Jews. Given that there are about 900,000 people in the US with more than $10 million in assets, we can estimate that at least 300,000 are Jews. This is a minimum of $3 trillion, and more realistically at least $6 trillion, from 0.3 million Jews; how much more, then, from the remaining 5.7 million?

Looking at the total wealth hierarchy in the US, private individuals currently own about $167 trillion. If even one-third of this is held by Jews, that comes to around $55 trillion in Jewish wealth—of which, perhaps 90 percent is subject to seizure: say, $50 trillion.

Of course, many non-Jews are complicit as well—most notably, the large pool of Christian Zionists. There are something like 44 million White evangelical Protestants, most of whom are Zionists. We don’t know how many of this population have provided funding or material support for Israel, but it is surely a substantial fraction. More research would be required here to fully assess the liability.

The Benefits

For the sake of argument, let’s say that we could confiscate $50 trillion, in large part from American Jews who have provided material support for Israeli terrorism. What then? We have several options, of course. One possibility would be to pay off the current US federal debt of $38 trillion, which is both a huge burden on federal spending — interest payments pushing $1 trillion per year and supplies significant pressure toward inflation: “Higher [federal] debt adds to the risk of inflationary pressure in both the short- and the long-run, through aggregate demand, inflation expectations, crowding-out of private investment, and worries about fiscal dominance.” Driving debt toward zero would enable tax reductions and provide immediate and long-term cost-of-living benefits for all Americans.

And then, how about a cash payout? Americans have suffered in multiple ways over the years from Jewish fiscal chicanery, from job losses to degraded products to higher prices to environmental damage to poor health to mental stress to massive cultural debasement. If, say, we took $10 trillion to use as a cash payout to each of America’s 130 million households, that comes to about $75,000 per household. That would be a huge benefit to all, especially those at the lower end of the income spectrum. For many of our poorest, it could be a life-changing event.

But of course, it is hardly so easy. We could expect a strong reaction from the Jewish community as we moved to seize their assets. Many would surely attempt to flee the country, wealth in hand. Actions would be needed to minimize the loss of wealth, including a clamp-down on international bank wires, asset transfers, and liquidations. It would take international cooperation to ensure that most wealth was indeed frozen and then forfeited; this is difficult but not impossible, as we have seen how Jews themselves acted to seize, for example, German and other foreign assets deriving from World War Two. We can follow their example.

Still, we could expect that most of the 6 million Jews would leave the US. Would this be a loss to American society? Hardly. Consider just the job openings in finance, media, entertainment, law, medicine, and academia. In many sectors, unemployment would plummet to zero, boosting wages and freeing up countless career opportunities. And if the past is any guide, the nation might flourish in unexpected ways. Jews fled England beginning in 1290, France from 1394, and Germany from 1933; in each case, national life and culture experienced periods of unprecedented prosperity. There is no reason to think that the same would not happen in America, should the majority of our Jews decide to leave.

I would emphasize that, given the complicity with domestic and international terrorism, a punishment of asset seizure is remarkably mild compared to past examples. Jews would not be attacked or beaten; not imprisoned; not banished; and not killed. We would simply confiscate their wealth and, should they choose, we would facilitate their voluntary departure. For those who stayed, their powerful and corrupting Israel Lobby would be defanged by the massive loss of economic clout, reducing it to a harmless, and much smaller, advocacy group. No more buying politicians, no more buying media conglomerates, no more buying university governance. American Jews would be reduced to “one man, one vote”—just like the rest of us. Imagine that.

But some may say, “You can’t punish all Jews, or even 90 percent of Jews! You don’t know who is guilty and who is innocent. This is collective punishment!” In the case of terrorism, unfortunately, collective punishment is sometimes warranted, as is extra-judicial action. If Trump can obliterate random Venezuelans on boats in the open sea based only on a suspicion of terrorism, we can certainly take the much milder action of seizing assets related to known and obvious global terrorist actions and policies.

Others will say, “This is all pie-in-the-sky. You haven’t got a prayer of doing anything like this in the USA. The Jews are simply too powerful.” Ok, agreed, this won’t happen anytime soon. But everything is a process, and we need to proceed step by step. The first step is simply stating the principle: We won’t let domestic support for global terrorism go unpunished. The second step is identifying the culprits: Israeli genocide in Palestine is terrorism, as is bombing Qatar, as is bombing Iran, as is bombing Lebanon…on and on. All those who aid Israel are complicit in terrorism, and they too will not go unpunished. The third step is outlining a clear and just punishment: confiscation of assets, perhaps beginning with the assets of all the organizations supporting the Israel Lobby. Including the ADL, AIPAC, etc. Over time, things could well begin to move in the right direction.

A New Party, a New Movement

But will anything be put into action in the present political climate? Of course not. As we all know too well, both American parties are utterly beholden to the Israel Lobby and to wealthy Jews.[1] Trump’s “America First” ethos is rightly derided as “Israel First.” Trump himself is an utter stooge for the Jewish Lobby; he does nothing that is not in Jewish or Israeli interests. For this reason alone, he is a laughingstock and a disgrace. But his time is fading; after the 2026 midterm elections, he will be the lamest of ducks. I will be surprised if he even lives to finish his term—it must be terribly grueling to sell one’s body and soul to the Jews.

Both major parties are hopelessly corrupted by Jewish money, and so we can expect only more of the same from them. One answer, then, is to try again to create a new political movement, a new party—one that is explicitly free from Jewish influence and which is targeted wholly at freeing the country from its grip.

For discussion purposes, let’s say that this new party reflects primarily the interests of European-Americans: that is, American citizens whose ethnic background derives from indigenous European peoples. And why not?

Hispanics had their own dedicated group, the Raza Unida Party; Blacks have the Nation of Islam; Jews have the ADL, AIPAC, not to mention the Democrats and the Republicans—why not European Americans? It could be a party of all those of European ancestry, regardless of national origin: say, a Pan-European Party (PEP). Its central planks would be (a) to serve the benefits and interests of European Americans, (b) to seek just and fair solutions to national and global issues, (c) to be racially-aware, that is, to be race realists instead of race fantasts, and (d) to oppose Jewish terrorism through a confiscation of terror-related wealth and other assets. That’s it—nothing too complicated, just clear and simple goals. All other parties either ignore us or actively work against our interests; why support those groups? Why not a dedicated party—one which could be the basis for a whole new social movement—that serves our interests foremost? One that would bring us considerable financial benefits, not to mention incredible cultural, political, and moral improvements.

In fact, if I might hazard a prediction, I would guess that, should anything like a PEP come to power, even locally, and if anything like a confiscation of Jewish terror-related assets should occur, and if Jews should opt to depart from certain areas of America, even locally—then, based on history if nothing else, I would predict a massive benefit for all remaining citizens: a true cultural flowering, an explosion of creativity, a massive improvement in mood and attitude—a sense that society works for the people rather than for special interests, that society is once again a noble and inspiring enterprise. It would be as if a lead weight were lifted from everyone’s necks, all at once. I predict that the results would be breathtaking. Do you doubt me? Let’s try it and see. We have nothing to lose.

David Skrbina, PhD, is a retired professor of philosophy. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including The Metaphysics of Technology (2015) and The Jesus Hoax (2024). For more on his work and writings, see www.davidskrbina.com.

[1] In 2022, H. Res. 1125 asserted that “Jewish-American experience…is connected to key tenets of American identity” and that “Holocaust denial” is “an insidious form of prejudice”; the measure passed 420 to 1 (Thomas Massie was the lone dissenter). In late 2023, H. Res. 888 reaffirmed Israel’s right to exist and again recalled the Holocaust; it passed 412 to 1 (Massie again). A US Senate vote on the same resolution (S. Res. 417) in October 2023 passed 97 to 0. The two parties, who cannot agree on anything of substance, are hand-in-hand when it comes to Israel and Jewish interests.