Oh, ok.
I know that what I'll say might be a generalization and some might take it as anti-Jewish, but that won't be my intention.
Once I wrote a small article about the Jewish colony in Salonica (now in Greece, back then in the Ottoman Empire). Salonica was the second biggest city, after Constantinople, in the European part of the Empire, and around 55% of the population was Jewish. Those were Safardi Jews who came from Spain (Some of them even accepted Islam).
My main interest was the merchantry, but I couldn't help notice some other details. Those Jews in Salonica were always faithful to the Sultan and that granted them many privilegies. Of course, they were the reachest ones and almost held monopoly over everything.
What I noticed was that the surrounding christian population suffered from them just as much as they did from the Turks themselves.
My point is that power doesn't really know ethnicity, religion etc. Especially after those people went through the same political and education system with the Ashkenazi Jews, I don't think that they'll be much different. In the past you might know them as good and peaceful people who lived among you, but how much power did they have back then?
Of course, this goes for every single ethnic and religious group, not only for the Jews.
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