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Basically, no. Even the statistic itself doesn't make any sense because the claim is about slave owners, and the evidence is about slave ships. Most slave owners would have been from whatever Empire they were in, or whatever state they were in. Slave ships could have been owned by specific people, but many also operated out of constructed companies. Jews were merchants, and by definition you can expect that some merchant ships were also able to move and transport slaves, but it's a far stretch to argue that one of the oldest human institutions was run almost exclusively by Jews.
To be honest, I'm not even sure how they would be able to even measure such a thing accurately when basically every place on Earth would have had slaves.
I think it is only about the salves from America. And the Atlantic Slave Trade. The Atlantic Slave Trade would be somewhat verifiable by checking who owned the boats as I expect that most of them had the same owners probably just a handful of them. As for owners in US who had slaves, that I agree that it does seem far fetched but who knows. I have no idea if there are any records of that, I do remember that a very small percentage of Americans actually had slaves but I have not double checked that either :P
Most of the slave owners in America would have been Protestant, not Jewish. Again, the boats weren't necessarily owned by slave owners, just slave traders. And who were slave traders? Lots of people, including Africans, Dutch, French, and Portuguese.
Slavery is basically a bourgeois activity. Only the very rich could really afford it unless you had a weird situation where you just had one slave that was a domestic servant.