I was apparently just banned from commenting at the Huffington Post for posting an objection to a post by Jeff Gates alleging some "Ashkenazi" conspiracy (that means Jews of European origin) to pilfer Russia in the 90s.
Is a multi-trillion dollar fraud being perpetrated on America by Lawrence Summers and the same transnational network that defrauded Russia of $1 trillion?
He means the Economic Hit Men, the Corporatocracy, the Cheneys, Halliburton, Bechtel, those people, right?
Nope.
He's referring to Jews.
With an Ashkenazi population of less than two percent, eight of Russia's nine richest oligarchs qualified for Israeli citizenship.
More on the International Jew and Gates's neofascist warning to Obama on the flip
What does that have to do with anything? Eight guys are "Askenazi[c]" and "qualified for Israeli citizenship." Just eight? That's hardly enough to extrapolate from, is it? I mean, there are approximately 228,000 Jews in Russia.
But wait! The crooked finger of Shylock has now absconded with American treasure too! Out comes the laundry list of Jews. Robert Rubin, Sandy Weil, fnord Harry Kissinger fnord, even Ken Mehlmen, best friend of all Democrats!
So here's the warning:
As in Russia, both the advisers and the new owners qualify for Israeli citizenship. Summers had a hand in both bailouts. As President-elect Obama scrambles to stabilize the financial system, will his pledge of clarity and transparency include an account of how -- and by whom -- he was advised to capitalize a transnational Ashkenazi oligarchy?
The guys he lists are Jewish. Some of them maybe even have been to Israel or go to a synagogue. But, the people they work for, the Bush Dynasty, the Cheneys, Nixon, Robert fucking McNamara, et al. even Barack Obama and the Clintons are, well, "not qualified for Israeli citizenship."
I honestly believe that there is a mutual interest oligarchy that is ruling the world, but a Jewish one? That old chestnut again? Sigh.
Of course, the International Jewish conspiracy was what Hitler blamed for the ruin of Germany, screeching names like Rotschild, but omitting ones like Lloyd's or J.P. Morgan.
Henry Ford too published a book called The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem (see here) but then later apologized for it, kind of.
Identifying Jews as a negative other has had consequences we all know about and some most of us don't. But this kind of anti-Semitism cloaked as populism is thousands of years old.
Anyway, I understand that people have strong feelings about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and about the current financial crisis, about AIPAC and the Jewish lobby. Some of those people are Jewish, some are Mel Gibson. No, seriously, though, you can be very disgusted by the State of Israel—but just like we got tired of Barack Obama having to answer for everything some random black guy did, do those "qualified for Israeli citizenship" really have to answer for everyone with a -stein in their name?
Being Jewish myself, I wonder why I've never been invited to the meetings where we parcel out control of the world. But, I think it goes without saying that the suggestion of a new Jewish Conspiracy using terms meant to confuse people instead of just saying "Jew" is a crypto-racist form of transferring blame for the situation.
I'm Jewish, I'm a contributor to J-Street, I want peace and justice for Palestine and Israel, and I am not a big fan of this bailout as currently constituted, but I think the "conspiracy" (or, more accurately, the ideology that links unrelated folks) is not Judaism or Israeli citizenship, but free-market fundamentalism and greed.
I'm disappointed that The Huffington Post (which I've defended here for scooping on Hillary as SoS—they were indeed correct) is giving this kind of stuff a forum, and then banning long-time users who point out that it's racist.
What are your thoughts?
UPDATE: Thanks for the comments and the recs! I hope Mr. Gates doesn't forget that Obama is connected to the International Judaistic Cabal by Michelle's cousin, the rabbi.
UPDATE 2: As of 11:55pm pst there were only three approved comments on that post and 0 pending moderation despite several commenters below claiming they posted there.
UPDATE 3: "From 1980 to 1987 Gates served as counsel to the Senate Finance Committee, working with Sen. Russell Long of Louisiana, son of the state’s former Gov. Huey Long, who was assassinated at age 42 as he was preparing a presidential campaign"
Huey fucking Long, eh? There's a conspiracy for you.