The Evil Roots of Jew-Hating Social Influencers

 In the last year, especially the last few months, we have seen many  social influencers who claim to be “devout Christians” attacking Israel specifically and all Jews generally.  From Tucker Carlson to Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes to Jake Shields, pundit after pundit has been attacking Judaism to lesser and greater degrees.  Denying the Holocaust, praising Adolf Hitler, accusing different scoundrels like Jeffrey Epstein of actually being Mossad agents, accusing Judaism of being a religion of pedophilia and Israel a nation that welcomes sexual abusers, and even accusing Israel of assassinating JFK...the list of their vile lies seems endless.

Many of these Jew-hating pundits, especially Fuentes and Owens (and their followers), justify their hate by “revealing” what they say are quotes from the Talmud (a sacred Jewish text and commentary assembled between the third and sixth centuries).  They justify their antisemitism through a litany of clearly horrific “quotes”: “A Jew may have sex with a child under 9 years old,” “Gentiles prefer sex with cows,” “ Even the best of Gentiles should be killed,” and more.  These ignorant influencers claim that the Talmud has all sorts of anti-Christian quotes about Jesus: that he is “a fool and insane,” “a bastard conceived in menstruation,” “Christ is evil and was Esau himself,” “a seducer,” and “is buried in hell.”  And more...

Owens claims to have “done her research” and that this is hidden Jewish theology.  Except, without exception, the quotes that are being used are either entirely fabricated or conscious mistranslations.  So how is it that these antisemitic pundits are referencing anything about the Talmud?

Almost without exception, these mistranslations and made-up quotes are coming from a book called The Talmud Unmasked, written in 1892 by a Jew-hating criminal priest named Justinas Pranaitis (some of which he took from Motiejus Valancius, a bishop from a generation earlier).  Pranaitis was a convicted blackmailer, forced to flee St. Petersburg because of his crimes, and an avowed hater of Jews.  When called in as an “expert witness” for the blood libel trial of Menahem Bellis in 1912, his testimony demonstrated such an extreme lack of knowledge about Judaism and the Talmud that “many in the audience occasionally laughed out loud when he clearly became confused and couldn’t even intelligibly answer some of the questions asked by [Bellis’s] lawyer.”  (Bellis was acquitted.)

But in 1892, he wrote this book, which the Jew-haters like Fuentes, Owens, et al. are quoting from, which is subtitled “The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians.”  In it, he purports to quote from the Talmud teachings about Jesus, Christians, Freemasonry, secret Jewish rituals, Jewish conspiracy movements, etc.  This book has been universally rejected by scholars and academics as a work of antisemitism couched as a piece of academia, but that doesn’t stop the Jew-hating social influencers from quoting it repeatedly.

The Evil Roots of Jew-Hating Social Influencers - American Thinker