Thread by @brucewilson

🧵In 2008, I shifted the presidential election by exposing how GOP candidate John McCain accepted an endorsement from Christians United For Israel head & founder John Hagee, whose 2005 sermon (broadcast globally) claimed Hitler was an agent sent by God, to persecute Europe's Jews

These "Christian United for Israel" are to this day Israel's most uncritical US base of support, and they're still pumping out anti-Jewish propaganda. The most politically dominant MAGA pro-Trump Christian faction today is the NAR movement, which promotes the conspiracy theory...

...that all wars and *everything* bad that happens in the world are a result of a plot by a Jewish billionaire. Before WW2, Adolf Hitler declared that rich Jewish financiers were forcing Germany into war but that such a war would be the end of Jews themselves: classic DARVO.

A key ideological influence on Hitler & his Nazis was the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", the infamous hoax claiming to be the secret plan of the Jews to rule the world. On the eve of the Russian Revolution, a young student in St. Petersburg.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Proto…

..was given, probably by an agent of the Tsar's secret police, a book with a copy of the "Protocols" in the appendix. As the Tsar's regime collapsed under the Bolshevik assault, the student, Alfred Rosenberg, fled West, to Germany, carrying the "Protocols"...

In Germany, Rosenberg joined Hitler's tiny band of Nazis,& gave them "The Protocols". Alfred Rosenberg would become Hitler's chief ideologist. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the automaker Henry Ford had fallen under the spell of "The Protocols". Ford bought a local newspaper...

..and hired a virulently anti-Jewish racist to write a serialized expansion of "The Protocols", which was titled "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem". Ford paid for the tract series to be translated into a German language edition & printed in Germany. After WW2..

..at the Nuremberg Trials, the former leader of the Hitler Youth testified that Ford's anti-Jewish tract series had been a key influence. Thus, these 2 related works of anti-Jewish propaganda were a key ideological inspiration for the Holocaust. Meanwhile, in the 1930s in America

..pro-fascist & anti-Jewish sentiment was growing (Ford played a big role in this.) One faction in this movement that's received far too little scrutiny were Christian fundamentalists. Not all, but many of them promoted "The Protocols" and related anti-Jewish ideas...

..this fundamentalist crowd included Henry Ford himself, who opined that Jews were to play an enormous, inspirational role in coming days. Ford seemed to believe that most Jews were bad, evil even, but that there were also good Jews with a divinely mandated role in history.

To this day, the Christian Zionist movement, which is obsessed with the coming end-time role of Jews (as gleaned from the Book of Daniel & Revelations), embraces this "good Jews/evil Jews" dichotomy; the movement slavishly supports the most extreme political elements in Israel...

..to the extent of promoting long discredited propaganda concerning the 10/7/2023 Hamas attack on Israel (propaganda since discredited by *Israeli* media) and platforming mendacious IDF spokespeople. But at the same time they do this, the Christian Zionists promote versions...

..of "Protocols" style anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. Here is a very recent example of that, from the "World Prayer Network", a leading New Apostolic Reformation forum:

https://x.com/brucewilson/status/1827761036100772280

My point is that Christian Zionists who seem unmoved (even when Palestinian Christians are being killed) by what some call an ongoing genocide in Gaza also expect, per their take on scripture, a coming genocide of Jews & they promote conspiracy theories that make it more likely!

Here's a April 26, 2024 thread in which I document some earlier instances of Christian Zionists pushing anti-Jewish conspiracy theories:

https://x.com/brucewilson/status/1783803746247401693

Here's a 10 minute mini-documentary I did on this 16 years ago (!) titled "The Secret Life of Christian Zionism" that notes the shocking similarity between Nazi propaganda & Christian Zionist conspiracy theories: