Blowing Smoke - Michael Wolraich [73]
First and foremost, according to the conspiracy theories, the Rothschilds love war. If it were legal (and if present trends continue, it may be soon) the Rothschilds would marry war. They started the French Revolution, the American Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, the Boer War, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, and World War III (pending).
The Rothschilds also love assassinating people. They killed Abraham Lincoln, JFK, RFK, MLK, Czar Nicholas II, Princess Diana, Yitzhak Rabin, and Michael Jackson. Yes, some say the rich Jews killed the King of Pop.9 Moreover, every important person from Winston Churchill to Warren Buffett to George W. Bush has been a Rothschild stooge. Hitler was actually one-fourth Rothschild. Ergo, the Rothschilds planned the Holocaust (or fabricated the Holocaust hoax, depending on whom you ask). They also sank the Titanic, bombed Hiroshima, and planned 9/11, to name a few of their dastardly crimes.
In the old days, when hating Jews was still hip, Rothschild conspiracists were more openly anti-Semitic. For example, one prominent American conspiracy theorist from the early twentieth century published an article called “The High and Low of Jewish Money Power,” which explained that the Rothschilds were the progenitors of a new breed of “international Jewish financier” whose “absence from national or patriotic illusions” freed them to wreak havoc and war in the interest of profit.10 The name of the conspiracy theorist was Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. After his success with the Model T, Ford bought up a Michigan newspaper in order to pursue his passion: anti-Semitism. (Everyone needs a hobby.) Ford’s Dearborn Independent published weekly screeds about the power and malevolence of the Jews. It also reprinted an infamous anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, which “documented” the secret Jewish plot to take over the world.
But even in Ford’s day, most Americans disapproved of excessively vitriolic anti-Semitism, so the Dearborn Independent pioneered the tactics that would later characterize twenty-first-century persecution politics: pooh-poohing discrimination against Jews and projecting bigotry onto them. One article, “‘Jewish Rights’ Clash with American Rights,” attempted to deny the existence of anti-Semitism on the grounds that Arabs were Semitic people, and Jew-haters had no problem with Arabs. The article concluded, “There is no such thing as anti-Semitism. There is only a very little and a very mild anti-Jewism.”11 In other words, the problem of anti-Semitism was simply a case of semantic confusion. (Hitler must have missed that memo.)
While there was apparently no anti-Semitism to be found in 1920, there was by contrast “a tremendous amount of anti-Goyism, or anti-Gentilism,” according to the Dearborn Independent.12 Jews demanded a “specially privileged system” while seeking to obliterate all traces of Christianity—Christian prayers in public schools, Christian references in state constitutions, and their old nemesis, Christmas trees.
The non-Jew is the “persecuted one.” He must do everything the way the Jew wants it done; if not he is infringing on Jewish “rights.” . . . Jews’ determination to wipe out of public life every sign of the predominant Christian character of the United States, is the only active form of religious intolerance in the country today.13
The Dearborn Independent’s arguments were deeply