Also, if you’re generally skeptical like me and think 9/11 was “allowed” to happen by the security state so the US could invade the Middle East and ram through panoptical legislation like the Patriot Act, there’s no doubt Israeli leadership/AIPAC had a seat at the table. Again, just …complex. But ascribing that bloodthirst Zionism to all Jews is really the problem. That being said, anyone defending Israeli apartheid should get the wall.

As a Jew, this is my problem with the TrueAnon podcast. While they never explicitly mention The Jewish Question, they seem to uncritically reference a multitude of conspiracy theories clearly borne out of right-wing circles. I know they try to frame it as a curiosity or “just asking questions” or whatever, but functionally, they may as well just be reading excerpts from the Turner Diaries.

On the flipside, yeah, Jews, and Zionists in particular, hold way too much power and lord it over American and Middle East society. So I “get” the antisemitism. By demographics, they’re overrepresented in politics, law, entertainment, and finance, so any conspiracy corkboard is gonna be lit up with red string. And while we can talk about “white men” dominating all sectors of society, any similar discussion about Jews gets swept under the carpet.

It’s complex. What’s certain is it’s next to impossible to discuss it without everyone bringing their baggage.