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

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There’s a great deal of unoriginality to this stuff, it really does get repeated over and over and over. That’s part of what makes it so successful, is that you don’t have to learn anything new. And you don’t really have to do anything new. You’ve got Alex Jones, recycling the Waterloo narrative [in which the Rothschilds supposedly made a fortune off of early news of Napoleon’s final defeat]. You’ve got one of the most popular antisemitic books of the 1800s, this book I’d never heard of, The Original Mr. Jacobs, which is massively plagiarized from this French book from 1890, which was also hugely popular and hideously antisemitic. Whether you’re looking at sort of authors and pamphleteers of the Nineteenth century, or the content creators of the Twenty First century, you don’t do more work than you have to do. Because that takes away from time that you could be creating more new stuff. So they just recycle the same stuff, because they know it’s going to work. The QAnon conspiracy theory, which holds that Donald Trump is secretly fighting a worldwide child-sex-slavery ring that was supposed to culminate in the mass arrest of his political opposition, is “worth listening to.” Omar apologized for making the suggestion after joining Congress in January 2019. During an interview on CNN last Sunday, she said that she had previously not been "aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and money." The derogatory 2018 Facebook post from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. Media Matters for America The facts as we know are these: On that fateful weekend in 2018, the Levine family of Malibu approached us to be part of what would have been the world’s first circumcision by space laser. We were delighted to assist, as the space laser has always been used in a safe and menschy fashion, and we have learned some things since our attempt at making crème caramel for the Feinberg Bar Mitzvah.

Of course, the Jewish community is a place where there is always a surfeit of opinions. Not surprisingly, some observers doubted whether this was a matter for humour, arguing that it was not acceptable to laugh at such a dangerous – albeit absurd – claim. They argued that however far-fetched – a word that some pundits claim must have a Yiddish origin – Greene’s assertions might be, they were not a laughing matter. Ok but for real anyone who thinks Jews are keeping a space laser a secret... have you met a Jewish mother? No one would ever hear the end of “did you know about my daughter’s space laser? We’re very proud!”— Gabby Tropp (@getropp) January 29, 2021 Gee, blaming a racial group for a public health crisis, in this case an environmental health crisis? When has that ever happened before? Greene also speculated that a range of people or groups were involved in this fire, including former California Gov. Jerry Brown, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), and Rothschild Inc., an investment firm. This isn’t to say Omar’s remarks and Greene’s were in any way equivalent — they very clearly are not.It’s interesting that a lot of traditionalist, pro-Europe “return” guys would also be anti-Rothschild, even though they’re kind of consummate Europeans. A recurring theme of this book is just how much antisemitic propaganda is just plagiarized from earlier antisemitic writings. What do you make of this just blatant unoriginality throughout? The persistence of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories should make mainstream politicians very wary about indulging in conspiratorial thinking, especially about Jews. Yet it doesn’t always work out that way. Let’s get this out of the way: First-term Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s claim that the 2018 California wildfires were ignited by a space laser controlled by a corporate cabal, including the Rothschild banking firm, is objectively ridiculous. It’s okay to laugh about it. Next, “Crazy Ex Girlfriend” co-creator and star Rachel Bloom made us LOL, literally OL, with this video clip poking fun at the scramble to write a bunch of parody songs inspired by “Jewish Space Lasers.”

This belief is not (yet) official canon within the Republican Party, so Greene has been taking steps to distance herself from it. “This is a story that some leftist ‘journalist’ — really he’s an activist — wrote a hit piece on me and titled it ‘Jewish Space Lasers,’” Greene told Newsmax TV host Greg Kelly. “You know, the left-wing media, they just run the same lies over and over again and they call me an anti-Semite and say that I said something like Jewish space lasers, and I never did.” And in any climate where conspiratorial thinking is prominent, Jews will inevitably become the target. In the polluted right-wing media ecosystem, where conspiracy theories are omnipresent, anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists will have an easier time getting a hearing for their ideas. One way or another, ideas from the fringe right slip into conservative media outlets like Fox News and, from there, straight into GOP legislators’ ears. Our space laser has a stellar record of more than 36 years of safe operation. (And it’s still single? One could say that’s the real emergency). We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that focusing intense beams of light from beyond the stratosphere is only done in accordance with international safety regulations, and never on the Sabbath. Just take a look at what happened after Trump continued to call the Covid-19 coronavirus the “China virus” or the “kung-flu.” Did that stop the virus? How many lives could have been saved if he instead had focused on controlling the spread of the virus? Similarly, searching the sky for a giant “Jewish space laser” would be a waste of time, because Taylor Greene provided no real evidence that there is such a laser. It would be like investing time to look for a huge Kardashian Space Station.The Rothschilds, a Jewish banking family, have long been the targets of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories claiming that Jewish people are in control of the entire world. While Greene specifically did not use the words "Jewish space laser," she heavily implied that the Rothschilds were involved in the laser conspiracy.

This book, dealing as it does with present-day political actors and conspiracies, is very much of its time. But it is also quite timeless in how it elegantly untangles fact from fiction. I can imagine encouraging people interested in the function and history of antisemitic conspiracy theories to read it for years to come.” – The Washington Post But then, just as suddenly as it had gained a foothold on social media, the humour stopped. The abrupt halt to some very clever exchanges came when the Republican caucus refused to punish, criticise or condemn Greene in any fashion. Instead, they gave her a standing ovation. They did so after she told them that she had only been “curious” about some of the ideas she had posted and didn’t really know what space lasers were. Though her explanations beggared the imagination – her space laser post was long and detailed – it was enough for her colleagues. This Jewish space laser thing makes no sense to me. Because, as every Jewish mother knows, you could put an eye out with that.— Ruth Marcus (@RuthMarcus) January 29, 2021 I hope everyone reads this book. It has become such a crucial thing for all of us to understand.”—Erin Burnett, CNNWhile any claim of ignorance by Greene has inherent plausibility, this hardly resolves the matter. She has also shared a video with a different classic anti-Semitic and explicitly racist conspiracy theory, claiming that “an unholy alliance of leftists, capitalists, and Zionist supremacists has schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation, with the deliberate aim of breeding us out of existence in our own homelands.” She specifically mentioned Roger Kimmel on the PG&E board, U.S. Senator for California Dianne Feinstein, her husband Richard Blum, former California governor Jerry Brown, and Michael Peevey who is on the board of Solaren.