There’s a deep connection between conspiracy theories, antisemitism, and the Russian government that goes back to “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and reverberates to the present day.
It’s an interesting nexus, because while there are many strands of ethnic hatred in the world, there’s something distinctive about the tendency of antisemitism to take on a conspiratorial form. Recently, for example, Stew Peters claimed that the OceanGate submarine was deliberately sunk in order to prevent people from visiting the wreck of the Titanic. Peters was expanding on an older conspiracy (which went viral on Facebook back in 2021) that John Pierpont Morgan didn’t sail on the maiden voyage of the Titanic despite owning the ship because he deliberately sank it in order to murder several prominent businessmen who, allegedly, would have stopped the creation of the Federal Reserve (which he favored). Peters and his guest, Zach Vorhies, updated the theory by arguing that there’s a Rothschild conne…
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