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if you see people ranting or posting about "The Rothschilds" on social media, you should know where that comes from and what it means (1)
In 1940, Nazi Germany released an antisemitic film, "Die Rothschilds Aktien auf Waterloo" which painted the German-Jewish Rothschild banking family in a conspiratorial and antisemitic light (2)
Nazi Germany regularly used the "Rothschilds" as a stand in for "Jews" and was used to cultivate working class support who were receptive to economic populism. (3)
After World War II, Rothschild conspiracies became predominant on the American far right. Over the past ten years or so, they have reemerged on the far left. Specifically in the Momentum Movement in the UK Labour Party. Ideas travel. (4)
so if you wonder why Jews are starting to get really nervous about certain dog whistles they see, including "The Rothschilds," this is why. Because we know our history. We know the code words and where the ideas came from. And where they led. (5)
and by way of background, I'm neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Just a classical liberal caught in the middle. But one who sees the rising tide of populism in US politics. And knows this likely will end very badly unless true liberals and conservatives push back.
further reading https://www.thejc.com/news/news-features/the-rothschilds-the-banks-and-antisemitism-the-truth-and-the-myths-1.450112
thanks to @Yair_Rosenberg for being one of the writers who has covered this issue before. hence my re-upping his WaPo piece
as was pointed out, these conspiracies did NOT begin with the Nazis. Rothschild conspiracy theories began in the 1800s. It was the Nazis who first used mass media (film especially) to disseminate them to a wide audience
its leaders, such as Curtis Dall, were asserting (in one case in a joint interview with Richardson) that the Rothschilds and other Jewish financial interests had financed world communism, and that Zionism is dedicated to "political and financial world domination."
