CitizenWald, 7 months ago

As I've noted earlier (https://historians.social/@CitizenWald/110574070037911438), the #Khazar hypothesis began as a legitimate attempt to explain eastern European history.

However, right-wing extremists & racists, from the Christian Identity movement to McCarthyites, appropriated it in the early C20 & grafted it onto existing conspiratorial #antisemitism

Here, one of my "favorite" examples, which shows you just how loopy this shit was. The book earned praise from major political & military figures

#Mazeldon @histodons 3/n

“The Marxian program of drastic controls, so repugnant to the free western mind, was no obstacle to the acceptance of Marxism by many Khazar Jews, for the Babylonian Talmud under which they lived taught them to accept authoritarian dictation on everything from their immorality to their trade practices. Since the Talmud contained more than 12,000 controls, the regimentation of Marxism was acceptable— provided the Khazar politician, like the Talmudic rabbi, exercised the power of the dictatorship.” —John Beaty, Iron Curtain Over America