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Articles by Sabrosky and Duff promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories have been widely circulated, picked up
by the conspiracy press, the extreme right press, and elsewhere, including Islamic media sources in the United
States. These articles consistently paint Israel or the "Israel lobby" as devious and complicit in mass murder to
further Jewish goals of acquiring power and destroying enemies. They further connect Israel's alleged
masterminding of 9/11 attacks to claims regarding Israeli mistreatment of the Palestinians, making the 9/11
theories part and parcel of an overall anti-Israel agenda.
Gordon Duff
Gordon Duff is an anti-Semitic conspiracist whose innocuous-sounding Web site, Veterans Today, features anti-
Israel and Holocaust denial materials. The site also offers a platform for numerous columnists who promote
anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracy theories, as well as Duff's own screeds.
Duff's visions of conspiracy are typical of the latter day anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracists. For example, in a July
2010 essay, "America's Tarnished Military Partnership with Israel," Duff asserts that the "five dancing Israelis"
arrested on 9/11 were part of a "team of Israeli intelligence agents" who remotely guided the planes into the
World Trade Center with the knowledge of "top members of America's military." He further claims that the
U.S.'s own security is threatened by a nefarious and disloyal group of Americans who have dual U.S./Israeli
citizenship and who control government organizations and private companies. Indicative of the reach of such
writings, this essay was reposted widely across the Internet, especially on conspiracy-oriented and right-wing
extremist Web sites. It saw publication in print, too, in places such as The First Freedom, a virulently white
supremacist and anti-Semitic Alabama-based newspaper.
In other columns, Duff paints Israel's alleged role in the 9/11 attacks as part of a bigger picture of Israel's
purported ruthlessness, particularly toward the Palestinians. He depicts Israel as willing to do anything to
maintain hegemony in the Middle East.
In March 2010, Duff wrote a column that included an interview with Alan Sabrosky, whose anti-Semitic rants
have become a mainstay on the Veterans Today site. In the column Duff supports Sabrosky's views. Duff begins
the column by asserting that "the Israeli lobby' is "the most powerful and ruthless group in the world." Duff then
promotes Sabrosky's view that the 9/11 attacks could not have happened "without the full resources of both the
CIA and Mossad and that 9/11 served the interests of both agencies quite well."
Alan Sabrosky
Sabrosky, a regular columnist for the Veterans Today, is currently one of the most cited sources for anti-Semitic
9/11 conspiracy theories. Sabrosky, like Duff, typically ties these theories to other anti-Israel themes. When
Sabrosky alleges that Israel and the Mossad were behind 9/11, he inevitably brings up Israel's alleged treatment
of the Palestinians or its attacks on Gaza. Sabrosky has repeatedly made comparisons between Israel and Nazi
Germany, in which Israel fares far worse than the Nazi regime in his weighing.