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[The issue of anti-Semitism]… has been used as a political club to attack research on 9/11 whenever
consideration has been given to the possibility of Israeli involvement in the crime. That is hardly a
stretch since Israel has probably benefited from 9/11 more than any other political entity.
Fetzer uses the same arguments in an earlier Op-Ed News column from April 2008, "9/11 and the Neo-Con
Agenda," Fetzer predicts that he would be called "anti-Semitic" but goes on to claim that there are "disturbing
indications" that Israel might have been involved in the 9/11 attacks. Aside from mentioning the "five dancing
Israelis," Fetzer focuses on American government officials of Jewish background whom he claims had dual
U.S./Israeli citizenship and might have been in on a plot to carry out the 9/11 attacks. His theory is that these
neo-conservative government officials—including Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle and Douglas Feith—were more
loyal to Israel than the U.S. and wouldn't have hesitated to help Israel further its goals. Fetzer then expands this
conspiratorial view to include the Palestinian issue. He writes:
It is not anti-Semitic to object to the expansion of illegal settlements, the starvation and killing of the
Palestinian people, or the butchering of a peace activist with a bulldozer! For these gross violations of
human rights, we have the government of Israel to thank. We need laws to keep dual citizens from
decision-making and policy-shaping position in the US government. Who knows whose loyalty they
respect?"
Kevin Barrett
Barrett is a former instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who currently runs the Truth Jihad Web
site and Internet radio show and is a co-founder of Muslims for 9/11 Truth which appears to consist mostly of a
blog that refutes the idea that any Muslims were behind the 9/11 attacks. Barrett uses his radio show to offer a
platform to other 9/11 conspiracists, including Gordon Duff and Alan Sabrosky. Although Barrett first gained
national media attention for his view that the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks, he has since made
statements in which he alleges that Israel was also involved in the attacks. Like Duff, Sabrosky, and Fetzer,
Barrett's views of 9/11 are inextricably linked to his anti-Zionist views. Barrett also has stated that he has been
influenced by Christopher Bollyn, an anti-Semite and one of the earliest promoters of anti-Semitic 9/11
conspiracy theories.
In his 2007 book, Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle against the 9/11 Big Lie, Barrett compares neo-conservative
members of the Bush administration to Hitler, whom he claims was one of their mentors. "Terrified by their
collapsing minds," he writes, "and the impending collapses of Israel and the American empire it depends on, the
neocon crazies set off the 9/11 firecracker, crawled out of the basement, and imposed their madness on the
nation and the world."
In an April 2011 interview on Intifada-Palestine, an anti-Israel Web site that features the works of several
conspiratorial anti-Israel and anti-Semitic writers," Barrett declares, "I know, not just believe, that 9/11 was a
false-flag attack, that many individuals at or near the top of the US Executive Branch, military, and intelligence