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Bill Gates Jewish?

Thread ID: 11514 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-12-18

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Acorn [OP]

2003-12-18 03:39 | User Profile

I've found a few snippets here and there saying Bill Gates/Gates family may be Jews. Anyone know anything? What I heard is that the original name was Goetz and they hailed from Austria.

It would make sense in light of M$'s "software" and business practices.


Angler

2003-12-18 05:50 | User Profile

That's funny, I was just wondering about that myself yesterday. ESP, anyone? :)

Anyway, your post reminded me of that question, so I did a search on Yahoo. The best I could come up with is a stupid joke called "If Bill Gates were Jewish". Here's the URL:

[url]http://www.zipple.com/jokes/billgates.shtml[/url]

I suppose that hardly qualifies as definitive evidence. However, "Zipple" is a Jewish website, and Jews like to pride themselves on recognizing the achievements of their fellow Tribesmen. Therefore, it seems reasonable to conclude that, if Bill Gates were indeed a Jew, then the above joke would not be circulating among the Jewish community.

That's my take on it, anyway. Maybe someone else here knows for certain.


heritagelost

2004-01-05 16:50 | User Profile

He's not Jewish, people just call him Jewish cause they don't like him. He does look like the world biggest geek.