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

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Greene refused to directly respond to Morgan, instead shifting the topic to discuss her support for January 6 Capitol riot defendants. much of what Rothschild recounts was new to me, supplying a remedy for an ignorance both happy and untenable: happy because it came from a lack of exposure to explicit antisemitism; untenable because antisemitism is persistent and pernicious, and because it is difficult to push back against evil if you fail to recognize it when you see it. Indeed, how often do you hear things like a Black space ship, a Latino light saber, or a Chinese virus?

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. The strange tale of how one Jewish family—the Rothschilds—became a lightning rod for conspiracy theories over the course of the last 2 centuries.Ms Greene tried to brush off the topic, instead pushing her own talking points about Hamas’ attack on Israel, the criminal charges against January 6 Capitol rioters, and her new book. in partnership with the Rothschilds, as the company used a space laser to either beam clean energy to Earth or clear room for a high-speed rail project.

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. The author also capably demonstrates how today’s boogeyman, the Hungarian-born billionaire philanthropist George Soros, is an inheritor of the outlandish claims.You might even get like a genuine conspiracy theorist to pick it up, thinking it’s a straightforward, antisemitic tract. 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. 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.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Rothschild discussed why Jews have been scapegoated for everything from 9/11 to the current moral panic over LGBTQ “wokeness,” what Elon Musk has in common with Henry Ford, and how we might deprogram people who have bought into antisemitic canards. But modernity brought its own problems, like crushing urban poverty, and anti-Semitism adapted to explain those ills as well.That’s really gone by the wayside now, and it’s just, “We’ve got to get rid of the Jews, we’ve got to declare ‘ death con three‘ on the Jews. The US House of Representatives voted to strip Ms Greene of her committee assignments in 2021 following an uproar over comments in 2018 and 2019 that she supported executing prominent Democrats.

After Christianity’s conquest of the Roman Empire and Europe, blaming the Jews for the world’s ills — from war to famine to pandemic — became a persistent feature of the European social environment. But, more likely than not, he’s just using him as a stand-in for generalized Jewish wealth and power.Jewish Space Lasers is especially ominous because Rothschild connects the antisemitism of 200 years ago with the slop served on today’s Internet – in QAnon prophecies, as well as in news publications that include InfoWars, Breitbart News, and Fox News. Greene, who was promoting her new book MTG, become visibly annoyed after Morgan suggested that she could be a "conspiracy theory wack job. But it sounds like, from these posts, it’s about far more than removing one Jewish organization from a social media platform.