Category File
Antisemitism
2 documented theories filed under this subject.
- The Dancing IsraelisFive Israeli nationals working for a New Jersey removals company were arrested on 11 September 2001 after a neighbour reported them watching the burning towers and giving each other high fives. They were held seventy-one days and deported for working without visas. Two FBI divisions concluded they had no prior knowledge of the attacks and were not engaged in clandestine intelligence work. The companion claim that Israelis were warned to stay away traces to a Jerusalem Post report of families ringing to ask whether their relatives were alive, inverted five days later by a Hezbollah-linked broadcaster.
- The Simonini LetterIn August 1806 a letter reached the Abbé Barruel from a man claiming to have infiltrated the Jewish community of Piedmont, telling him that the Freemasons and the Illuminati had both been founded by Jews who intended to take Europe. Barruel declined to publish it and circulated it privately instead. The letter is one of the earliest recognisable statements of the Judeo-Masonic conspiracy, and almost everything about its origin is contested.
- The Doctors' PlotOn 13 January 1953 Pravda announced that nine Kremlin physicians had been arrested for murdering Soviet leaders on behalf of American intelligence and what it called international Jewry. The arrests were real, the confessions were extracted under torture, and the plot was manufactured. Seven weeks after Stalin died the state quietly exonerated everyone and shot the investigator who had built the case.
- The Federal Reserve as Jewish Shadow-StateThis theory was a major antisemitic reframing of American central banking in the 1930s. It claimed that the Federal Reserve was not merely a national monetary institution but the financial arm of a hidden Jewish power structure operating behind the visible state. In fascist and proto-Nazi propaganda, especially around William Dudley Pelley and the Silver Shirts, the Fed could be represented as part of a larger network of Jewish bankers, international finance, and political subversion. The propaganda campaign was real and documented, even though the shadow-state claim itself belonged to conspiracy rhetoric rather than evidence. The theory drew on older “international banker” myths, Depression-era distrust of finance, and the broader Protocols-style fusion of Jews, banking, and government control.
- The Zionist World BankThis theory was an Americanized financial-political variant of the Protocols forgery tradition. It alleged that a hidden Jewish or “Zionist” network controlled world banking, media, revolutions, and governments through coordinated finance. In the United States, the theory gained major reach when Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent published a long antisemitic series beginning in 1920 and later repackaged it as The International Jew. The conspiracy did not originate with Ford, but Ford’s prestige, distribution network, and mass readership gave older European fabrications and accusations a large new American audience. The phrase “world bank” in the theory referred not to the later Bretton Woods institution but to the broader idea of planetary financial control.