Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories

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Morgan showed Greene a clip of his recent interview with Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef, who suggested that Greene was among the prominent figures who professed to be pro-Israel during the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict while being "antisemites themselves. It would kind of stink to have to worry about the possibility of a secret space laser zapping you every single day.

I expected there to be all of these American Rothschilds and these palaces in the Catskills, but there wasn’t anything. This is a conspiracy theory that seemingly motivated the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s rampage in October 2018, less than two months before Greene’s post. In her post, Taylor Greene suggested that the 2018 California wildfires may not have been due to climate change leaving vegetation drier and more combustible. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.penned about the Federal Reserve and the Jews who he alleged, despite evidence to the contrary, to have created and controlled it.

While the book is not a comprehensive history of the Rothschild family, it does offer some brief background. You’ve got one of the most popular antisemitic books of the 1800s, this book I’d never heard of, The Original Mr.But it speaks to something profoundly dark about our current political moment: the way the rise of the American far right has enabled the spread of one of the world’s oldest hatreds. It’s just the easy default to go back to to say, well, this wealthy and powerful group who are maybe a little too wealthy, maybe a little too represented in certain fields, it’s their fault.

The vast majority of QAnon-inspired conspiracy theories have nothing to do with anti-Semitism,” the Anti-Defamation League wrote in a 2018 report. There’s an old tradition in antisemitism of blaming powerful Jews for the pollution of the white Christian bloodline.And why, even as their wealth and influence have waned, do they continue to drive conspiracies and hoaxes? QAnon fans obsessively parse posts written by an anonymous person named Q, often found on the fringe web forum 8kun (previously 8chan).

Some of these crackpot theories are more pernicious than others, but at root each has the same poisonous combination of antisemitism, xenophobia and stupidity. Even though the Rothschilds were barely active in the United States, on the Internet you will find mind-blowing allegations about their American shenanigans. Here is a list of their responses or nonresponses, which will be updated if and when these Republican House leaders get back to Slate. Like Mike Rothschild’s incredible deconstruction of QAnon in The Storm Is Upon Us, Jewish Space Lasers takes a thoroughly engrossing deep dive into the absurd conspiracy theories surrounding Judaism’s ‘royal family. You will read, for example, that during the Civil War, the Rothschilds lent money to both the North and the South – and offed Abe Lincoln after he grew uppity.

As the war against Hamas unfolds, our unwavering newsroom remains committed to covering Israel's most profound crisis. To me it’s a more high-tech version of the blood libel, that the Jews are conspiring against us that conspiring to do horrible things to us.