Russian diplomatic missions and the Kremlin-controlled media launched a new campaign against the evidence in the Sergei and Yulia Skripal poisoning case, creating and amplifying conspiracy theories. Russia’s diplomatic missions have long been noted for content that goes beyond promoting Russian policy to outright falsification. Past behavior, including sourcing arguments to known conspiracy theorists, illustrates how thoroughly […]
Until his welcome intervention on Monday afternoon, the debate over Labour and anti-semitism, which has been rumbling on since Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership victory in 2015, seemed to have reached a tipping point. There has been widespread revulsion at Corbyn’s defence of a virulently anti-semitic graffiti artist, and contempt for his excuses for doing so: that he was merely […]
We’ve just seen another mass shooting in the US. This time it was a church, and race hate was the cause. Other times it’s a school, or a cinema, or a university, or a shopping mall. By now, the script is sickeningly familiar: the numbing details of horror, followed by the bewildered outrage, the backlash […]
On 22 November 1963, American president John F Kennedy was shot and killed as he drove through Dallas, Texas. The Warren Commission, charged with investigating the assassination, concluded that he was murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone. [...] Read more
Last week, I wrote that the widely-linked article positing that the CIA was behind a Swedish woman's accusation of rape against Julian Assange was authored by a Russian-born, Swedish-domiciled, multi-aliased anti-Semite and Holocaust denier currently writing under the name "Israel Shamir," a.k.a. Adam Ermash or Jöran Jermas. The broader point had little to do with […]
A Chinese bestseller, entitled The Currency War, describes how Jews are planning to rule the world by manipulating the international financial system. The book is reportedly read in the highest government circles. If so, this does not bode well for the international financial system, which relies on well-informed Chinese to help it recover from the current […]
Beginning in the mid-1980s, dozens of books based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion began to appear in Japanese bookstores and sold millions of copies. Jews were described in these books and in the large, gaudy advertisements that appeared for them in mass circulation daily newspapers as a clandestine cabal plotting to destroy […]
