Much of the journalism [Blumenthal] produced during the [early years of the Syrian civil war] conveyed a strongly anti-Assad message. In 2013, he reported for the Nation from a refugee camp in Jordan, where, he wrote, every single Syrian he interviewed supported a U.S. military strike on their homeland.But then something happened. We don’t know exactly what it was. All we know for certain is that in December 2015, Blumenthal traveled to Moscow—all expenses paid by the Kremlin—to attend a gala dinner, hosted by Vladimir Putin himself, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of RT, the international TV network owned by the Russian government. When he returned to the U.S., his position on Bashar al-Assad—and on U.S. intervention in Syria—had turned around completely.Only a month after the RT bash, Blumenthal founded something called “The Grayzone Project,” which describes itself as “a news and politics website dedicated to original investigative journalism and analysis on war and empire.” Basically, however, Grayzone is a one-stop propaganda shop, devoted largely to pushing a pro-Assad line on Syria, a pro-regime line on Venezuela, a pro-Putin line on Russia, and a pro-Hamas line on Israel.
The connection between Russia and today's antisemitism has been more and more publicized recently. Long-time observers note the nearly identical antisemitic arguments of the Soviet Union and today's Leftist "anti-Zionism," especially by Izabella Tabarovsky. The Grayzone site has been in the forefront of anti-Israel and pro-Hamas propaganda, denying that there were any rapes by Hamas on October 7.
But it appears that Vladimir Putin is interested in fomenting antisemitism in the West not only via the far-Left, but also via the far-Right.
Here is a fairly well-designed, seemingly well-funded video from a far-right studio that popped up on X yesterday and already has tens of thousands of views. It espouses the long-discredited Khazar conspiracy theory, claiming that all Ashkenazic Jews today are really descended from the Khazars. Just like left-wing anti-Zionism, it pretends that it is not antisemitic at all - just that nearly all Jews today - including, of course, the Rothschilds - are really the descendants of a Babylonian Talmudic cult based on worship of Moloch that murders and eats children.
This is well-worn territory for right-wing antisemites. The Khazar theory is popular among Arabs as well.
But this video has much higher production values than most other far-right propaganda. And it also has a decidedly pro-Putin message (3:30):
"America has been infiltrated by traitors, murderers, pedophiles and thieves. And lucky for us, no coincidence, that Russia's Vladimir the Great has got our back again," it says, as a picture of Vladimir the Great morphs into one of Vladimir Putin.
The video then goes into a history of the Khazar kingdom, where the heroes are the Russians who defeated the baby-eaters. But the Khazar/Jews had a "well developed spy network" which then infiltrated into Europe "and Slavic nations" where they took their gold and silver. "Ever since, the Khazars have plotted their revenge against the Russians."
(I was mildly curious what it says on the "Khazar" tallit. It is a mirror image of backwards Hebrew that says "Kings and Generals.")
This is a pro-Russia video as much as it is an antisemitic one.
The filmmaker, one Nick Alvear, has made many "red pill" documentaries previously through his "Good Lion TV' site. Just as with Blumenthal, it appears that the Russian propagandists chose to influence him to use his video skills in to their own benefit, and antisemitism has been identified as an effective way to destroy the West by marginalizing and demonizing the Jews who have contributed to its success.
The West tends to put all right-wing antisemitism into a box, assuming that it is all of Nazi origin. The Khazar theories being bandied about the Internet nowadays are just as likely to come from Arab or Russian sources as from neo-Nazis. And this stuff looks like it is being funded by Russia itself.
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