There are? 
You’ve been watching Tetsuo too much 
Ahh, some people are so young.
Ethnic humor is drying up, which is probably a good thing. But I remember seeing books of Scottish jokes (and Irish and Polish and Italian and so on) in the 1960s, and recall reading about “Scotchograms” (the whole point of which is to save money, hence the name) into the eighties and nineties.
Skinner: I see you Scotsmen are thrifty with courage, too!
Willy: All right, Skinner! That’s the last time you slap your Willy around! I quit!
Unrelated but one of my personal favourites:
Willy: Brothers and sisters are natural enemies, like Englishmen and Scots. Or Welshman and Scots. Or Japanese and Scots. Or Scots and other Scots. Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
This isn’t an American source, but I’m reminded of the Monty Python skit about the Scottish poet laureate:
Lend us a quid till the end of the week.
If you could see your way
To lending me sixpence
I could at least buy a newspaper.
That’s not much to ask anyone.
Naw, they’re Japanese. Space salarymen. Soulless. Efficient. Interchangeable. Techno-fetishist cogs in an implacable hive machine. Bent on out-efficienting the good ol’ US of A - er, the Federation - with their superior manufacturing technology. Buying up Hawaii real estate. Putting Detroit spaceship manufacturers out of work. Unstoppable. Inexorable. Inscrutable. Foreign.
You have to remember that the Borg were written in the early 90’s before the Japanese economy went hurtling down the gurgler and it looked as if the US was going to be assimilated, with car manufacturers taking a huge hit, businesses and real estate being acquired left and right, and books on the superiority of Japanese management techniques in every store: they’re a reflection of the paranoia of 15 years ago.
I always considered them to be stereotypically a race of Henny Youngmans.
I think it’s funny that you remembered those characters and not Watto, the big-nosed, accented, greedy alien who everybody said acted like a stereotypical Jew.
Once you get beyond greed, I really don’t see it. I had no idea Jewish people had stereotypically bad teeth. (In fact, I thought a lot of them were supposed to be orthodontists. :p) The Ferengi are greed personified, the rest really strikes me as window-dressing.
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Gee, with his accent I took him for a science fictionized stereotypical Italian shopkeeper.
“Wassamatter for you, you no wanna buy my slaves?”
Eh, I can see why the people who said it was anti-Semitic took it the way they did. In the second movie, Watto wears a black hat I could picture on an Orthodox Jewish man, and he has a thick beard. It was either a funny commentary on the issue, or an unbelievably funny accident. Here’s a photo. Either way, it’s up there with the Stormtrooper hitting his head on the Star Wars humor scale.
Just to muddy the ethnic waters further, I’ll point out the similarity of the name “Ferengi” to the word “feringhee” {also spelt feringhi, ferinji and faranghi} used on the Indian subcontinent to mean a foreigner or outsider, usually of European origin. Ditto the Thai “farang”.
It seems to say more about you than Star Trek, when it’s you that seems to think Jewish people have those traits. :dubious:
I can’t think of anyone- after Golan Heights, Masada, the 6 Day war, the continued endless bombing of their homeland- who think the Jews are cowardly. Anything but. Other than “big nose” which Semitic (includes Lebanese, Arabs, Palestinians, and so forth- and many Jews are Semitic) dudes often have I don’t attribute any of those to the Jewish people. And, note I don’t thnk of that trait as “Jewish” so much as “Semitic”.
Some attribute “obsessed with money” but that’s a canard applied to dozens of minorities- including Americans.
Didn’t Harlan Ellison, who is Jewish, publish an anthology of short stories that featured Jews in outer space? I vaguely remember owning a copy of a book like this maybe 30 years ago.
No. The Ferengi were created specifically for TNG and never appeared in anything relating to the original Star Trek.
Ummm… Dude? Did you read the thread title? I ** did not** say these things are true of Jewish people, I said that they were the common features of anti-semitic cartoons. I don’t know about you, but in my public school we learned a fair bit about Nazi propaganda during European History, and such things came up at some other point in my education (American History II at college, probably).
Anyways, in the course of my education I have seen time and again that these are all traits that are routinely used when people make charicatures of (or outright propaganda against) Jewish people.
sigh And somehow I knew someone would make the not so subtle implication that I was anti-semitic when I made this post. :rolleyes:
PS. why is it that my interest in threads I start is usually inversely proportional to the level of success they have? I toss out a thought on something that stuck out in my mind, and in one day we get almost a full page of responses. Except for when I was trying to sound ideas for an X-Men fanfic, the threads I’m really interested in never seem to get more than 10 responses at best. 
I thought Jews in Space was a Mel Brooks bit.
You left out the best part!
Skinner: You Scots certainly are a contentious people.
Willy: (wheeling in fury): You’ve just made an enemy for life!
Producer Rick Berman, who developed The Next Generation with Roddenberry, is Jewish.
It comes from the Arabic…“faranji”-Frank, Frenchman
The way I see it, if anyone in ST embodies Jewish archetypes, it’s Kirk, Spock and McCoy.