The Anti-Semitic QAnon Politicians: From Far Right Believers in Conspiracies

Nadene Goldfoot           
                                                                               

Our Republicans have a group among them in the Far Right seeing conspiracies behind every bush.  The Jews are first to be picked on.  The Q Anon group is making waves in Georgia because one of their women members just won a race in a Republican neighborhood, and she is a Republican, of course, Margorie Taylor Greene.  
She's not alone.  "Vocal QAnon acolyte Jo Rae Perkins won the GOP (Republican) nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Oregon in May. In June, Lauren Boebert, Republican,– who said of the theory, “Everything I've heard of Q, I hope this is real” – unseated Rep. Scott Tipton (R-Colo.) in the GOP primary in Colorado’s 3rd district." 
                                                   

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Trump-endorsed small business woman and adherent of the unfounded QAnon conspiracy theory running as the GOP nominee for a safely Republican U.S. House seat in Georgia, espoused a 9/11 conspiracy theory in a 2018 interview.

On June 9, 2020, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a businesswoman, won the most votes in the first round of the Republican primary for Georgia's 14th Congressional District seat in the United States House of Representatives. Greene has an extensive history of supporting QAnon on Facebook and Twitter. She has also made racist and anti-Semitic statements, which resulted in Republican leaders such as Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise to condemn her remarks.  She won an August 11 runoff to become the nominee in the heavily Republican district. President Donald Trump endorsed her candidacy the following morning.  
                                                     

The conspiracy theory's targeting of George Soros and the Rothschild family has led Jewish-American magazine The Forward as well as The Washington Post to accuse it of containing "striking anti-Semitic elements" and "garden-variety nonsense with racist and anti-Semitic undertones". 

That may have truth behind things being said about him.  He's supposedly started J-Street, a group competing with the longer established AIPAC, and saying JStreet backs Israel, when it certainly doesn't seem to do so.  JStreet doesn't back what Israel does, but tries to tell it what to do instead, from their safe couches in their living rooms in the States.  They disagree most of the time with Israel.  Anyone not backing Zionism didn't want to see Israel created.                                                         

My home was in this apartment building situated right
across the street from the jr. high where I taught English. 

I say this because I lived in Haifa and Safed for over 5 years, 1980-85 and kept thinking that my mother would plotz if she knew of the dangers we were facing, or what was happening that never made the US papers, like the bombs that tried to litter our shopping centers and the robots that had to be called out to end them.  Soros seems to exemplify the typical JStreet outlook; the leader with all his followers.  Or what the jr high in Safed had to do to keep their children safe; like having 2 boys outside on guard to check people going in for bombs and all the containers they found holding bombs, like tooth paste boxes, etc; all this planted by the Arabs.  Our purses had to be checked when entering stores 20 years before the USA had similar reasons for doing just that.  

                                                 

Rothschilds?  A family of great compassion?  A true Zionist?  That was a great Jewish family of philanthropists from 16th century to now who helped early Jewish pioneers in Israel financially.  Baron Edmond de Rothschild helped in 1880s.  

The family did well in the 1700s with Mayer Rothschild and was a financial agent during the time of the French Revolutionary wars.  His 5 sons established the House of Rothschild.  

 "A Jewish Telegraphic Agency article published in August 2018 stated that "although not specifically, some of QAnon's archetypical elements—including secret elites and kidnapped children, among others—are reflective of historical and ongoing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories".

The Anti-Defamation League reported that while "the vast majority of QAnon-inspired conspiracy theories have nothing to do with anti-Semitism", "an impressionistic review" of QAnon tweets about Israel, Jews, Zionists, Rothschilds, and George Soros, "revealed some troubling examples" of antisemitism." Put it all together and it spells antisemitism to me.  Political correctness sometimes goes overboard in hiding the truth.  

The QAnon theory is also like a virus when people don't bother to check on the details of what's being said.  That's why gossip is so dangerous.  There are people who will believe anything bad about someone or something they are suspicious of.  It's happened in other countries like Syria whose people believe that Jews can even cause bad weather.  The custom there for a long time has been to blame the Jews.  Now with this group, they and others are being blamed for anything.  

 I can say that people belonging to QAnon have Apophenia; the tendency to  mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things.  I see Trump and others falling into that error of reasoning.  Some see a detailed secret plot by the "deep state", meaning Democrats, against US President Donald Trump and his supporters.  This is not so far fetched as the facts are pretty scary, such as the Democrats expecting Hillary to win and were in shock with Trump winning; and all the methods and ways tried already to rid themselves of him.  They've been happening non-stop; pretty obvious. Remember Carter Page and the fisa warrants? 
 https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2020/01/timeline-investigating-trump-turns-into.html 
But facts have to go through the steps of proof, just like  science.  These incidents have happened but a deep state conspiracy?  That needs a mastermind.  Started by who?  Soros?  Obama?  Proof is in the pudding.  Don't cry fire in a crowded theater, or WOLF more than once.  

I have an aversion toward conspiracy theorists.  I've met several over the TWIN TOWERS even of 9/11.  They couldn't believe what had happened.  They were bombed on purpose by someone in New York, not the planes, so they said.  

Or my neighbor who looks up in the sky and sees the cloud's formation and figures it's THEM, that caused it.  They're coming and we'll be killed.  Just try to explain weather to her.  
                                                  

The Democrats have their extremes with the new SQUAD of 4 new women in even higher position; Senate and House,  who all vote against Israel anyway they can.  They're also an embarrassment to their party.  The QAnon seems to be an answer to them by agreement in their anti-Semitic views.  

QAnon seems to be a well-known phenomenon but I hadn't heard of it.  "It seems to be a mixture bringing in their religion into the picture along with accusations.  This becomes another matter to check on in case you care about electing a person without pre-determined conspiracy theories instead of facts.  This is going to be extremely hard for those Republicans who are not believers in this QAnon but who don't like the Democratic party anymore, either for similar reasons.  Hopefully, it's not going to be the thinking of the majority running.  

Update: 9:37pm 8/14/2020
Resource:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/08/13/trump-backed-candidate-marjorie-taylor-greene-promotes-911-conspiracy-theory/#57969dfdf0c3
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/politics/fisa-carter-page-warrants/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/06/21/george-soros-conspiracy-theories-protests/3232738001/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-georgia-primary.html?smid=em-share