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. Lately on Twitter, or X, there’s an ongoing movement to “ban” the Anti-Defamation League, which has been encouraged by Elon Musk. THE AUTHOR draws straight lines from the Dreyfus Affair to the Nuremberg Congress, from the medieval blood libel to The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion to William Jennings Bryant’s 1896 “The Cross of Gold” speech that likens America’s deflationary gold standard to deicide. So, too, does Rothschild offer the reader some insight into Jewish history’s intersection with European history and financial history more generally.

LaRouche — known for his extremist views and multiple presidential runs — played his part in pushing baseless claims in the United States, but he is not necessarily more blameworthy than Dennis Hastert, who was speaker of the House, or Glenn Beck, who devoted three consecutive evenings of his Fox show to Soros in 2010. Speaking of silent majorities: I asked every member of House Republican leadership whether or not they believe, as Greene has speculated, that the 2018 Camp Fire might have been caused by powerful Jewish interests shooting an energy beam from space, or if such comments were appropriate. That’s because instead of being laser-focused on solving the climate change problem, some people may actually be focusing on the concept of a freaking space laser.As he explains early on, “Mayer’s story, and that of his entire family, isn’t atypical of other Jews in that sphere — modestly prosperous, hemmed in by culture and tradition, and trying to keep their own company as pressure increased for them to convert.

Almost all conspiracy theories are rooted in antisemitism, and almost all antisemitism is rooted in conspiracy theories.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. Millions rely on Vox’s clear, high-quality journalism to understand the forces shaping today’s world. Ilhan Omar over 2019 statements that congressional support for Israel was “all about the Benjamins baby. 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 recent years, the mythology was updated to include George Soros, who, being a Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire and advocate for civil society, makes for great fodder for a fantasy cabal. Today, the Rothschilds are far from the almshouse, even though they have lost their financial dominance of a century ago. is a massive 1978 tome by white supremacist William Gayley Simpson, who wrote that Jews were plotting to overthrow Western culture and civilization.Antisemitism is an ideology that’s easy to exploit and lucrative to monetize any time there’s a major political upheaval, health crisis, economic disaster, military setback, or degradation of “traditional” social mores—which is to say, all the time. You’re seeing out and proud Nazi marches in Florida, you’re seeing Nazis hanging banners on overpasses in LA.