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America has truly been the land of opportunity for jews [sic]…Yet these jewish [sic] criminals incinerated
nearly 3000 people on September 11th, 2001, and goaded our country into a "war on terror" which has
cost over a million lives. The cover-up of this crime has created an outrageous scandal that is tearing this
country apart. This is the most heinous, treacherous act ever committed against the United States of
America. They have the gall, and the contempt for us to carry out this treasonous crime. We've been
nothing but kind and generous to these people, in return they have destroyed our Republic.
Wendy Campbell has expressed her views elsewhere, as well. She published an article that contained anti-
Semitic 9/11 conspiracy theories on CounterCurrents.org in January 2008. In the article, Campbell states: "I have
become totally convinced that along with Americans Bush, Cheney, and Israeli-Americans Wolfowitz, Perle and
their neocon cohorts, that Israeli agents played a major role in "making it happen" with regard to the 9-11
attacks.
Like others who spread these theories, those running ReDiscover 9/11 try to disclaim being anti-Semitic by
saying that they are distinguishing the evil Jews whom they call "so-called self-styled Jews" from the "good,
ethical and religious Jews."
MAINSTREAMING ANTI-SEMITIC 9/11 THEORIES
Anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracists not only create their own Web sites, they are active participants on mainstream
social networking sites like Facebook, which play host to a number of groups and individuals who claim that
Jews and/or Israelis carried out the 9/11 attacks. The Facebook groups have names such as "Jews Behind 9/11,"
"Jews did 9/11," and "9/11 was done by the Jews and Illuminatis." A number of these Facebook pages link to
anti-Semitic videos and Web sites.
One Facebook page ("9/11 was an inside (ZIONIST) job – The REAL truth! Expose the REAL terrorists") provides
one of the reasons why the conspiracists flock to social media: "[Jews] have infiltrated governments world wide
[sic] and they basically control North America. They also own the media that gave us the official obvious 9/11
lie."
Inevitably, the anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracy theories have made inroads into the larger 9/11 conspiracy
movement, even among people not generally considered anti-Semitic.
For example, Loose Change, a popular 9/11 conspiracy video, does not itself focus on anti-Semitic conspiracy
theories. However, the video nevertheless draws from the American Free Press, a wellspring of anti-Semitic
9/11 propaganda, as well as the work of anti-Semitic writer Christopher Bollyn, as sources to bolster its claims
about the alleged government cover-up of the 9/11 attacks.
Some have gone further. For example, Alan Hart, once a mainstream reporter for the BBC and the Independent
Television Network alleged in an May 2010 Internet radio interview with Kevin Barrett that Israel and the
Mossad were behind the 9/11 attacks.
After pre-emptively trying to dismiss charges of anti-Semitism, Hart asserts:
I tell you what I honestly believe. I think it started out as an all-Muslim operation, but I think it would
have been very quickly penetrated by Mossad agents…My guess is at an early point they said to the bad