I liked this book and I did learn alot about the sickening history of antisemitism but this book was a bit dry. Ilhan Omar over 2019 statements that congressional support for Israel was “all about the Benjamins baby. 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.

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And, of course, Jewish people have faced their share of finger-pointing and conspiracy theories over and over again. I found the history about the family very informative as well as the way conspiracy theorists take that history and twist it. I did find the last third or so much more consumable, mostly because I have more touch points and personal exposure to recent history and current cultural trends and moments.

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. There’s about as much evidence behind these conspiracy theories as there is evidence that a giant teddy bear is floating in the sky and throwing down hot dogs. 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.After a paragraph on the perils facing early-modern Jews whose financial labors funded Christian rulers, he dryly remarks, “Court Jews may have been courtly, but they were still Jews. Greene responded by insisting that Morgan and others in the media had "twisted" her words, arguing that she "never said" the exact phrase.

Usually when the words “space” and “laser” are involved in an explanation, you are sort of reaching. Mike Rothschild (no relation), author of the bestselling Q-Anon conspiracy bestseller The Storm Is Upon Us, sorts out myth from reality to find the truth about these antisemitic conspiracy theories and their spreaders.

Before that conversation could occur, Greene put out a statement denouncing “the radical, left-wing Democrat mob and the Fake News media trying to take me out” and saying “I will never back down. As Zack Beauchamp wrote for Vox, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschild family controlling the world have frequently surfaced in the past. Dissecting centuries-old antisemitic canards that maintain their hold on the popular imagination—with staggering political implications—a thorough and sobering text. Tom Emmer, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee: “We don’t support any hate-driven conspiracy theories. In a now deleted Facebook post, the controversial Republican freshman representative speculated that the fire, which killed 85 people in 2018 in Butte County, was started by a space laser connected to the Rothschild family, a wealthy Jewish family at the heart of many anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.