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

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While a number of people have been understandably upset about Taylor Greene’s post, the absurdity of the space laser conspiracy theory about the wildfires did bring some interesting flames on social media. The culture of conspiracy theorizing as we know it is thoroughly and unavoidably saturated with anti-Semitism. Much of conspiracy theorizing as we know it — the enterprise of explaining the world’s woes by positing that a shadowy, all-powerful elite is behind them — arose out of the European anti-Semitic tradition. Tom Emmer, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee: “We don’t support any hate-driven conspiracy theories.

Ilhan Omar over 2019 statements that congressional support for Israel was “all about the Benjamins baby. Lately on Twitter, or X, there’s an ongoing movement to “ban” the Anti-Defamation League, which has been encouraged by Elon Musk.Greene outright endorsed a series of obscenely outlandish conspiracy theories, some relating to Jews and some not. So, too, does Rothschild offer the reader some insight into Jewish history’s intersection with European history and financial history more generally. This is this is the same sort of ham-fisted Bond villainy that has been directed at Jewish communities for millennia. Greene responded by insisting that Morgan and others in the media had "twisted" her words, arguing that she "never said" the exact phrase.

Gary Palmer, the chair of the House Republican Policy Committee, 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. He was now likely one of the richest Jews in Frankfurt, with Rothschild business quickly becoming a European affair.

As a subject matter expert in the field of fringe beliefs, Mike has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and Yahoo – among many others.

It’s just these powerbrokers who are doing it to us, and even other Jews should dislike the Rothschilds, and the Guggenheims, and all these other wealthy families.

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”.

And it’s not because he knows what they are, or has read them, but he’s gonna respond to somebody who’s quoting from them, and he’s gonna say, “Oh, interesting,” or “Disturbing. In his book Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction, the European scholar Jovan Byford explains that modern conspiracy theories always draw on the conspiratorial past. So we are cycling up right now, at a particularly dangerous time because of this upcoming election, but also because a lot of the most prolific antisemitic content creators are really doing away with the veneer of politeness that a lot of this stuff had. And, of course, Jewish people have faced their share of finger-pointing and conspiracy theories over and over again.Sure a stranger dressed as Mike Pence with a fly on his head could have used a jetpack to swoop into your room, snag the spanakopita, and made a quick getaway. Sometimes that would take the form of expulsion, sometimes it would take the form of an organized pogrom.