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

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The chapters on the Rothschild family in pop culture and how conspiracy theories manifest differently around the world are particularly readable. Mike Rothschild is a journalist, author, and the foremost expert in this ever-changing QAnon conspiracy theory. The early Church taught that “the Jews” conspired to kill Jesus — even though Jesus and his apostles were all Jewish and the Romans who actually executed him in the story were not. 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.

Ms Greene has frequently promoted conspiracy theories both before and after her election to the US House of Representatives, from QAnon through 9/11 to Donald Trump's spurious claims of a stolen election. In her most incendiary claim, she asserted that the Rothschild banking family is masterminding the anti-Santa plot “because they don’t worship Santa the way regular people do. I’ve already written for Forbes about how those of Asian descent have been unfairly blamed for the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, harassed, and even assaulted. For her part, Yashchyshyn denies ever having taken on the persona of a wealthy European heiress and instead claims she’s the victim of an abusive former partner, a Florida-based Russian businessperson who she said forced her into these schemes. While the book is not a comprehensive history of the Rothschild family, it does offer some brief background.What Musk was doing with this is not anything new, but the people who he is pandering to are immediately going to recognize it. While real scientists have long said that climate change has left many regions drier than before, why should anyone listen to science? The persistence of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories should make mainstream politicians very wary about indulging in conspiratorial thinking, especially about Jews.

She claimed she had even donated to a group named Machon HaMikdash, or the Temple Institute, that was helping fund the reconstruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem originally made 3,000 years ago. The entire science of eugenics, all of the Nazi racial stuff, all of that is just absolute pseudoscience. Mr Morgan shot back that he was accurately summarising her own words and challenged her to explain the actual meaning of her post, which he described as “crazy”, “lunatic”, and “complete gobbledegook”. Morgan then held up a yellow highlighted version of Greene's Facebook post, saying "before we move on, you have to just accept what you wrote yourself. One might be tempted to focus on how a person with such dangerous and criminal associations could get into the orbit of the former president and current members of the US Congress.But in the United States, conspiracy theorists have become a dominant influence on only one of our two major political parties: the Republicans. Through a series of implications and ironic queries, she suggested that the blaze may have been started – perhaps deliberately, perhaps accidentally – by as yet non-existent solar power satellites, capable of transmitting concentrated solar energy down to Earth in a laser-like beam. 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.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov used those very words in an effort to explain his country’s propaganda assertions that Ukraine’s Jewish president Volodymyr Zelensky is, of all things, a Nazi. But the exposition is really a means to examine the point at which fact swerves off the road and accelerates into absurdities. There’s always going to be a certain subset of people who need to blame the problems of society, the liberalizing of society, and their own personal failures on somebody else. Growing up with the last name Rothschild, nobody thought we were rich, nobody thought we were secret billionaires. Speaking of unfair and the pandemic, as Zamira Rahim reported for CNN, some people have singled out Muslims for spreading the virus, even though there are plenty of non-Muslims holding mask-less parties and railing against public health measures.Members of the Rothschild banking dynasty spent much of the 19th century and a smidgen of the 20th at the forefront of the world’s finances. A GAO review of the existing space laser program and management structure indicated that some measures need to be taken to ensure that the current program is structured to resolve uncertainties in an efficient manner. In December 2018, she shared a video on her Facebook page, which features a prominent British anti-Semite explaining that “Zionist supremacists have schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation. Dissecting centuries-old antisemitic canards that maintain their hold on the popular imagination—with staggering political implications—a thorough and sobering text.

There’s an alternate history of the Rothschild banking family that portrays them not as a family of accomplished businesspeople but as puppet masters who control all but a few central banks, have funded both sides of every war since the American Revolution, hold as much as 80 percent of the world’s wealth in their coffers, and are part of a sick occult web of rituals that involve murder and human sacrifice. The vast majority of QAnon-inspired conspiracy theories have nothing to do with anti-Semitism,” the Anti-Defamation League wrote in a 2018 report. Sometimes “Space Lasers” moves through their genealogy with dizzying speed: In the course of one paragraph, we meet Mayer’s great-grandfather, grandfather and father, Amschel Moses, who “worked his way into becoming the court Jew to Crown Prince William … son of the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, one of the wealthiest states in the empire,” which largely made its fortune by renting out professional soldiers as foreign mercenaries. Sort of a slightly glib title and cover to get people interested, [instead of] another black-and-white photo of mansions, or from centuries of Jewish pain. Instead, Anna de Rothschild, according to FBI officials, was actually 33-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Inna Yashchyshyn.

Almost all conspiracy theories are rooted in antisemitism, and almost all antisemitism is rooted in conspiracy theories. She had founded charities devoted to children, took selfies on private planes, made smooth golf shots, and had face-to-face meetings with some of the most powerful people in the Republican Party. 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. Another rule of thumb seems to be that no matter how ornate or esoteric a set of conspiracy theory beliefs might become, they they can always be traced back to this antisemitic root. 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.