Thread by @z3dster

A Thread on the history of the antisemitic troupe the GOP is still in love with

A common antisemitic tropes/meme is the concept of the international communist jew, landless, educated, and conniving, getting the otherwise docile African American community all uppity. That Black Americans would have never opposed their status if the Jew hadn't told them to

Henry Ford was big on pushing this in his 4 volume "The International Jew" which drew from the earlier Russian "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"

Jews use Blacks to break up communities via jazz and inviting them to move into the community

TW:Racist Slurs in screenshots

Ford was so convinced Jews were going to use Jazz and Jazz related dances to break the Whites that he was behind the push to counter by bringing back square dancing, which even by then was seen as old fashion qz.com/1153516/americ…

Ford's rhetoric was acknowledged by Hitler and he bought into the idea of the International Jew and amplified it

https://twitter.com/glennf/status/1263594323817291781?lang=en

After WWII the antisemitism didn't just go poof

Take for example this 1954 article from "Common Sense: The Nation's Anti-Communist Paper" a hate pamphlet so racist McCarthy's HCUA condemned it!

Even in 1954 it was clear fascists were using Anti-communist as a cover. This is similar to today's attacks on Antifa, SJWs, Critical race theory, etc...

Into the 60's in America Jews were involved in the civil rights movements and with that the international jew image took hold anew with the image of the Jew once again getting the Black community uppity

(I will note individual Jews played an outsized role in the civil...

..rights movement but it was not without controversy inside the Jewish community or a Jewish endeavor at large)

Examples of involvement include the Mississippi 3 and the make up of the Freedom Riders

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_o…

Of course those opposed to civil rights latched on to the easy target of the idea of the Communist Northern Jew coming down and causing issues them issues

This meme, of the International Jew, lives on today and we see it alllllll the time

The image on the right is from a Nazi cartoon from 1938!

A common abstraction of this image of the International Jew is to apply it to individuals. A common one today is George Soros, the billionaire who funds open society initiatives world wide but specially in the former Soviet Eastern Europe en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Soci…

A second one is Saul Alinsky, a community organizer from Chicago who died in 1972! His book Rules For Radicals, a guide to community organizing and tactics, is often used as a scare tactic because it has Radicals in the title en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alin…

The book is mostly about organizing tactics and thus anyone trying to organize can use it. In fact Freedom Works, the political group behind the AstroTurfed Tea Party, distributed it internally while using it in attacks against Dems

csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/T…

The GOP loves to continue to push the false International Jew attack and fain ignorance when called out

But of course Steve King was removed for his racism, surely it isn't the GOP at large right?

Surely @GOPLeader himself hasn't stuck his toe in these waters

The GOP only kicked Steve King to the curb when he started to cost them votes and money and they had someone lined up to take his seat

Greene is in a R+28 District that she won the party run off with 57% of the vote and the general with 74.7%

She has raised millions forbes.com/sites/andrewso…

As long as she has a war chest and can hurt moderate GOP in primaries via the threat of supporting opponents more than she hurts them in the general the GOP isn't going to do anything

If they police her out they will need to admit they have a much large problem

sources and follow up readings

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inter…

perspectives.ushmm.org/item/the-inter…

google.com/books/edition/…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conde_McG… - wrote "Common Sense"

adl.org/blog/the-antis…

Two similar antisemitic dog whistles to know:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Bo…