But it sounds like, from these posts, it’s about far more than removing one Jewish organization from a social media platform. If this were the use, one would hope that the space laser wouldn’t be the “Death Star” size seen in the earlier picture.

Sometimes “Space Lasers” moves through their genealogy with dizzying speed: In the course of one paragraph, we meet Mayer’s great-grandfather, grandfather and father, Amschel Moses, who “worked his way into becoming the court Jew to Crown Prince William … son of the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, one of the wealthiest states in the empire,” which largely made its fortune by renting out professional soldiers as foreign mercenaries. That’s because instead of being laser-focused on solving the climate change problem, some people may actually be focusing on the concept of a freaking space laser. It is blaming a Jewish advocacy organization, which is a stand-in for the Jews in general, for your own personal failures. Perhaps, Taylor Greene is being incredibly brave every time she spends time outside without a force field around her. Journalist and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild, who isn't related to the family, sorts out myth from reality to find the truth about these conspiracy theories and their spreaders.

I recently reviewed a middle grade graphic novel that invoked the Reptilian conspiracy in the joking context of cryptids and was alarmed to find an antisemitic trope dropped so carelessly into a children’s book. You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. Hmmm, which one would be better to have: a virus that can do martial arts, a space laser, or a “Muzlamic” ray gun? The post was another in a long line of conspiracies about the Rothschilds, a Jewish banking family that has featured heavily in antisemitic conspiracy theories since the 19th century.

Greene responded by insisting that Morgan and others in the media had "twisted" her words, arguing that she "never said" the exact phrase. The past few years have seen a resurgence of what has occurred throughout history: blaming particular racial groups for public health problems rather than actually solving them.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. 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. What Musk was doing with this is not anything new, but the people who he is pandering to are immediately going to recognize it. Liberals often mocked the far-right’s tendency to blame Soros for literally anything, while Soros himself either ignored them or pushed back forcefully.

The chapters on the Rothschild family in pop culture and how conspiracy theories manifest differently around the world are particularly readable.THE AUTHOR draws straight lines from the Dreyfus Affair to the Nuremberg Congress, from the medieval blood libel to The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion to William Jennings Bryant’s 1896 “The Cross of Gold” speech that likens America’s deflationary gold standard to deicide. There’s an old tradition in antisemitism of blaming powerful Jews for the pollution of the white Christian bloodline.

The leading Democratic mischief-maker is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who advocates some left-wing views I consider simplistic and impractical and, in some cases, poll badly. She claimed she had even donated to a group named Machon HaMikdash, or the Temple Institute, that was helping fund the reconstruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem originally made 3,000 years ago. A lot of these guys are just too busy building their own brands, whether it’s Alex Jones now or racists of 200 years ago.

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. When the special space boy remade Twitter in his image I made my account follow all the conspiracy handles that could find. The Rothschilds have already celebrated their own holiday with their little Rothschildren,” she said. Just over two years ago, Greene suggested in a Facebook post that wildfires in California were not natural. then a private citizen — wrote on Facebook that she believed “Rothschild Inc, international investment banking firm” was involved in California wildfires, which were, in this telling, caused by a beam from “space solar generators.