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

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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. From the John Birch Society in the 1960s to claims that Bill Clinton killed his political opponents in the 1990s to Glenn Beck’s chalkboard during the Obama years, conspiracy theories have been both a major presence in the conservative movement and a driving force in its activist ranks. But it’s again the idea that the Jews are conspiring to wipe out certain groups of people, they’re engineering their viruses to get rid of Christians, whoever it is. Every month, Book World’s editors and critics share their favorite books that they’ve read recently.

But it sounds like, from these posts, it’s about far more than removing one Jewish organization from a social media platform. Yes, those Rothschilds—the legendary European banking dynasty that rose up from the Frankfurt ghetto to become the kings of continental finance, lending, mining, and railroads. Because the Jews of Frankfurt were not allowed to have last names, they went by a mix of surnames, eventually adopting Rothschild. Her 2018 Facebook post was far from clear, purporting to be merely asking questions about the many “coincidences” Ms Greene believed had occurred during that year's brutal California wildfires. It was into this contradiction, a well-heeled family lending money to one of the wealthiest states in the Holy Roman Empire while simultaneously living in squalor as near prisoners, that Mayer Amschel Rothschild was born,” we learn.After the clip ended with Youssef noting that Greene was "very known" for the "Jewish space lasers" post, Morgan said that he had also read the deleted post, describing it as "complete gobbledygook. Between the mid-nineteenth century and the end of the Second World War, antisemitism was the dominant motif in conspiracy theories. Well, you know, people have twisted my words non-stop and I guess that's what you're going to continue to do," Greene responded, smiling. She wasn’t a member of the Rothschild family; “Anna de Rothschild” doesn’t exist in any family lineage, nor was there ever a Russian Rothschild branch. Mayer Amschel would also become court Jew, traveling the Holy Roman Empire and making contacts for potential business dealings.

The Rothschilds have already celebrated their own holiday with their little Rothschildren,” she said.His great-great-grandfather, Amschel Moses Rothschild, born in 1710, was a money changer who got his big break doing business with the Prince of Hesse. By distracting from and delaying real solutions to real public health problems, such blaming allows the public health problems to just get worse and worse. This seems to be how Mary Ann Mendoza, a hardline anti-immigration advocate scheduled to speak at the 2020 RNC, ended up tweeting a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion approvingly: by retweeting a thread from a QAnon enthusiast who had woven anti-Semitism into the Q canon. Dissecting centuries-old antisemitic canards that maintain their hold on the popular imagination—with staggering political implications—a thorough and sobering text. 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.