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

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After the rise of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust, the horrific endpoint of centuries of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, explicit anti-Semitism became far less socially acceptable in both Europe and the United States.

Those people just got closer and closer to the centers of power,” Rick Perlstein, a leading historian of conservatism, tells me.In fact, the Editorial Board for USA TODAY wrote that “her Facebook account contained racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views,” which doesn’t sound very nice. Perhaps, Taylor Greene is being incredibly brave every time she spends time outside without a force field around her.

S. for many of the ills of society even though they lack representation among leaders who are ultimately responsible for many problems and have the power to fix them. It’s why David Duke, the virulently anti-Semitic former grand wizard of the KKK, tweeted that “Omar is right . Jacobs, which is massively plagiarized from this French book from 1890, which was also hugely popular and hideously antisemitic.The vast majority of QAnon-inspired conspiracy theories have nothing to do with anti-Semitism,” the Anti-Defamation League wrote in a 2018 report. Journalist and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild, who isn’t related to the family, sorts out myth from reality to find the truth about these conspiracy theories and their spreaders. I was incredibly disturbed when I saw Musk blaming the massive loss of value that Twitter has had on the ADL.

And in the twenty-first century, the industry dedicated to smearing the Rothschilds turned against a more recent public figure of Jewish wealth, the Hungarian billionaire George Soros, while continuing to attack the Rothschilds for things they haven’t done and a scale of wealth that nobody possesses. Mike Johnson, the vice chairman of the House Republican Conference, responded “of course not” and “of course not. Allegedly, nobody bothered to background-check her or vet her ancestral claims during any of the four visits she made to the club. This is the crucial thing to understand about anti-Semitism: It is both bigotry and an explanatory framework.Imagine having to say, “I’ll pick you up at 6pm, unless of course a space laser makes me into crème brûlée before then.

For more than 200 years, the name “Rothschild” has been synonymous with two things: great wealth, and conspiracy theories about what they’re “really doing” with it. Louie Gohmert—none responded when asked whether or not they shared Greene’s belief that “Rothschild Inc” may have fired space lasers to start the 2018 Camp Fire. Omar engaged in factually questionable rhetoric that echoed ugly tropes in a way that maybe helped some bad actors spread their ideas. This, according to Lipstadt, was in part a strategic choice: Christianity had become a competing religion to Judaism, and its leadership wanted to marginalize the older, more deeply rooted tradition.One way or another, ideas from the fringe right slip into conservative media outlets like Fox News and, from there, straight into GOP legislators’ ears. Much of the conspiratorial literature of that period, but also about that period, revolves around the idea of a Jewish conspiracy. When the French Revolution became war in Europe, the prince needed money, and Mayer was able to make “loans and deals as he saw fit. While the book is not a comprehensive history of the Rothschild family, it does offer some brief background. Another Mar-a-Lago member remarked in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette piece that broke this story that guests “fawned all over her and because of the Rothschild mystique, they never probed and instead tiptoed around her with kid gloves.