Truth can come from the mouth of a monkey; so as any achievement or advancement can come from any person, regardless of what they seemingly identify themselves as. The list of achievements of Jews could have as easily come from Palestinians, had they chosen to focus their attention on value and achievement instead of group recognition and martyrdom -- trying to garner pity for themselves and their "plight", trying to make that which is of no value, valuable. The question would be: in what do you place value? If you place your value on the valueless, your seeming output will be of little value. If you choose to value that which is true value -- love, wisdom, intelligence, and freedom -- then that will show as the seeming outcome.
The next question would be: under what society would you rather live? That which values value or that which values the valueless? If you value that which is of value, life is of value to you; that means YOUR life, your rights, your privileges, your freedoms are of value, as are the rights, privileges and freedoms of those around you . If you value that which is of no value, then your life becomes of no value, as do the lives of those who surround you. You reflect to those around you your value… your value to yourself. If you do not value yourself, how could you possible value "another"?
The fear is fear of freedom, no matter how much you want to gloss over it.