Dina Roberts’s Reviews > Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories > Status Update

“Yuval Noah Harari. The bestselling Sapiens author and Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor has quickly become a top-tier target for conspiracy….”

“But the nature of trolling and online hate is that it’s virtually impossible to separate out the majority of people who are just talking about taking up arms from the small number that will actually take up arms”

“such as the bizarre hoax that young Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg is secretly the great-granddaughter of British banker and prominent Zionist Lionel Walter Rothschild.”

Well… that adds some interesting context.

“as the acceptability of Islamophobia in the post-9/11 era faded, it was replaced by familiar fears of Jewish power, influence, “overrepresentation,” and control.”

Yep.

“Japan in the 1980s was a country seemingly obsessed with Jews and Judaism. Some of it was positive—Fiddler on the Roof became one of the most popular musicals in Japanese history, and Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl sold millions of Japanese-language copies, with her name being appropriated by, among other products, a popular sanitary napkin company.”

Our world is a fantastic dark comedy.

“Even in regions where neighboring nations constantly warred with each other over religious doctrine and natural resources, they could unite in their hatred of the Jewish people”.

We help to bring people together. You’re welcome!

“What began with ranting and speechifying transitioned into art, literature, and film, all carefully created to maximize revulsion and dehumanization”

“During the tenth through thirteenth centuries, Jews of the Middle East fled the Mongol invasions of Persia and Iraq, with many settling in Western Europe, England, and North Africa”. With everything going on, I’m wondering more about where I come from. I’m Ashkenazi but am wondering when my ancestors left the Middle East.