In her post, Taylor Greene suggested that the 2018 California wildfires may not have been due to climate change leaving vegetation drier and more combustible. Through a series of implications and ironic queries, she suggested that the blaze may have been started – perhaps deliberately, perhaps accidentally – by as yet non-existent solar power satellites, capable of transmitting concentrated solar energy down to Earth in a laser-like beam.

But I did not know the depths of how crappy a book it was until I started looking through it, and I didn’t read the whole thing because it’s 1,400 pages and incomprehensible. While Greene did not publicly promote the conspiracy theory using the exact phrase "Jewish space lasers," the controversy originated with a 2018 Facebook post from the Georgia Republican that did reference Jewish people and lasers from space. Mike Rothschild is a journalist, author, and the foremost expert in this ever-changing QAnon conspiracy theory. But it sounds like, from these posts, it’s about far more than removing one Jewish organization from a social media platform. Such conspiracy theories not only make life more difficult for the races and ethnicities that are being targeted and blamed, they also make it more difficult for all of society.Because the Jews of Frankfurt were not allowed to have last names, they went by a mix of surnames, eventually adopting Rothschild. But it is one of those things where this meme that is sort of harmless actually has an extremely sinister origin. Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s ludicrous claim that the 2018 California wildfires were ignited by a space laser controlled in part by the Rothschilds. The strange tale of how one Jewish family—the Rothschilds—became a lightning rod for conspiracy theories over the course of the last 2 centuries. GAO recommended that the Secretary of Defense: (1) establish a DOD space-laser program plan containing clear and specific milestones and objectives which recognize the relative priority of space lasers within DOD, (2) commit the necessary funds to meet these objectives and to maintain stability of the program selected, and (3) establish a management structure to accomplish program objectives efficiently.

Despite its subtitle, “ Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories” is not a biography or a history of the Rothschilds, the famous banking family. much of what Rothschild recounts was new to me, supplying a remedy for an ignorance both happy and untenable: happy because it came from a lack of exposure to explicit antisemitism; untenable because antisemitism is persistent and pernicious, and because it is difficult to push back against evil if you fail to recognize it when you see it. a densely woven web of rumor and subterfuge, infectious racism and stubborn ignorance, that extends from medieval Europe to Rep. Other topics she has reported on for Newsweek include crime, public health and the emergence of COVID-19. Instantly, thousands of people rallied around her, blaming the fires on “Jewish space lasers” and ultimately, the Rothschild family.Given her popularity with former President Donald Trump and with the QAnon movement, and its overall interest in owning the libs, the institutional Republican Party has been much more reluctant to respond. Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia's "Jewish space lasers" conspiracy has reemerged during a contentious interview with British broadcaster Piers Morgan.

Members of the Rothschild banking dynasty spent much of the 19th century and a smidgen of the 20th at the forefront of the world’s finances.Best books of 2022: See our picks for the 23 books to read this summer or dive into your favorite genre. While the Rothschild family was material for conspiracy theorists, for many Jews, it was a source of pride and inspiration.

But the exposition is really a means to examine the point at which fact swerves off the road and accelerates into absurdities. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s claim that the 2018 California wildfires were ignited by a space laser controlled by a corporate cabal, including the Rothschild banking firm, is objectively ridiculous. In fact, the Editorial Board for USA TODAY wrote that “her Facebook account contained racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views,” which doesn’t sound very nice.Author and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild, who is not related to the storied Rothschilds — a banking dynasty at the center of infamous antisemitic mythology — found that cranks often dismissed his reporting on the assumption that he was. You can see Byford’s analysis at work in the most popular right-wing conspiracy theory in America today: QAnon. Instantly, thousands of people rallied around her, blaming the fires on “Jewish space lasers” and, ultimately, the Rothschild family. When the French Revolution became war in Europe, the prince needed money, and Mayer was able to make “loans and deals as he saw fit.