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

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Omar engaged in factually questionable rhetoric that echoed ugly tropes in a way that maybe helped some bad actors spread their ideas. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s claim that the 2018 California wildfires were ignited by a space laser controlled by a corporate cabal, including the Rothschild banking firm, is objectively ridiculous. Jason Smith, the secretary of the House Republican Conference, did not respond when his office was asked if he believed that “Rothschild Inc” had fired space lasers to start the 2018 Camp Fire, or if such comments were appropriate. Sometimes that would take the form of expulsion, sometimes it would take the form of an organized pogrom.

Her Facebook post was actually from 2018 but re-emerged recently, sort of like a piece of something floating back to the water surface in a toilet bowl. As a subject matter expert in the field of fringe beliefs, Mike has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and Yahoo – among many others. So the whole far-right media machine went after me a couple months ago, when I went on CNN and was talking about Sound of Freedom, but I so far have not seen much of a backlash for the book. There’s a great deal of unoriginality to this stuff, it really does get repeated over and over and over. Instantly, thousands of people rallied around her, blaming the fires on “Jewish space lasers” and, ultimately, the Rothschild family.Jews were freed from ghettos — walled-in segregated neighborhoods — and “emancipated” from legal restrictions on their participation in secular society. Well, Taylor Greene’s post suggested that the Rothschild banking firm is behind a supposed corporate cabal that engineered this whole space laser plot. The influence of that tradition is inescapable; its language and conceptual architecture are inherently linked to longstanding and deadly stereotypes about Jews. The chapters on the Rothschild family in pop culture and how conspiracy theories manifest differently around the world are particularly readable.

Jerusalem Post Diaspora Antisemitism 'Jewish Space Lasers': Rothschild antisemitic canards that refuse to die - review As the world fills with ignorance and hatred, Jewish Space Lasers reminds us that there is no such thing as a benign conspiracy theory. QAnon fans obsessively parse posts written by an anonymous person named Q, often found on the fringe web forum 8kun (previously 8chan). He wrote for several Sacha Baron Cohen projects and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. But I did not know the depths of how crappy a book it was until I started looking through it, and I didn’t read the whole thing because it’s 1,400 pages and incomprehensible. What better way to do that than to blame Jews for killing the literal savior, casting remaining Jews as Christ-denying heirs to a dark conspiracy?

Jewish Space Lasers is a surprisingly intense history of antisemitism surrounding the disgraceful and debunked Christian conspiracy theories that the Jewish elite led by the Rothschild family, Holocaust survivor George Soros, and all Jews by extension are the invisible hand controlling the global market. You’ve got one of the most popular antisemitic books of the 1800s, this book I’d never heard of, The Original Mr. I can imagine encouraging people interested in the function and history of antisemitic conspiracy theories to read it for years to come.

Just because of his byline, he could be implicated in a supposed worldwide scheme that has unfolded in the shadows for generation. But, more likely than not, he’s just using him as a stand-in for generalized Jewish wealth and power.And if you’re looking forward to what’s still ahead, we rounded up some of the buzziest releases of the summer. Tools and services JPost Premium Ulpan Online JPost Newsletter Our Magazines Learn Hebrew RSS feed JPost.

Over the years, they have been blamed for everything from the sinking of the Titanic, to causing the Great Depression, and even creating the COVID-19 pandemic. How many lives could have been saved if he instead had focused on controlling the spread of the virus? If you want to win the war on Christmas, first you take out the person who makes Christmas possible,” Greene said. Not hiding their Jewishness, they lent money to Europe’s royals, built railroads, lived in castles and palaces, and assembled massive art collections. Put differently: The overarching structure of the modern Western conspiracy theory — a global cabal manipulating the world from behind the scenes for its own profit and power — is an anti-Semitic construct.

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. So we are cycling up right now, at a particularly dangerous time because of this upcoming election, but also because a lot of the most prolific antisemitic content creators are really doing away with the veneer of politeness that a lot of this stuff had.