China Some Chinese people believe that Jews secretly rule the world and are
business-minded. Hongbing Song, a
Chinese American IT consultant and amateur historian, published the
Currency Wars series, believing
Jewish financiers have controlled the international banking systems since the era of
Napoleon. Song also says in his book that the key functions of the
Federal Reserve were ultimately controlled by five private banks, including
Citibank, all of which maintained "close ties" with the
Rothschild family, who he said led to the
1997 financial crisis. The book became a bestseller and even has been read by some high-ranking Chinese officials.
Germany In his first recorded political speech in 1919,
Adolf Hitler claimed that there was an international Jewish conspiracy plotting to weaken the
Aryan race and Germany. The leaders of
Nazi Germany believed that
World War II was a conflict pitting Germany against a massive conspiracy secretly engineered by Jews and fronted by the
Allies. According to this conspiracy theory,
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Winston Churchill, and
Joseph Stalin were merely puppets for the Jews.
Nazi propaganda repeatedly accused "International Jewry" of starting and extending the war and plotting the extermination of Germany. Hitler and other Nazi leaders repeatedly stated that they would "exterminate" Jews before the Jews had a chance to enact this alleged plot. Nazi propagandists drew on earlier Jewish conspiracy tropes and updated
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion with prominent individuals from Europe and North America. According to historian
Jeffrey Herf, it was the Nazis' conspiratorial beliefs about Jews, rather than older antisemitic beliefs, that caused them to resort to extreme anti-Jewish violence. "The desire for a Final Solution to the Jewish question was inseparable from the Nazis’ view of the Jews as an internationally organized political power that was playing a decisive role in the events of World War II." Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 under the pretext of fighting
Judeo-Bolshevism. By August 1941,
Nazi propaganda was already making radical assertions suggesting a global war against Jews. American entry into World War II prompted Nazi ideologues to plunge into further extremism, who claimed that an international coalition of
communism and
capitalism, led by a sinister "Jewish world conspiracy" were seeking the destruction of
Aryan race. Radicalization of
anti-semitic discourse went hand in hand with
Nazi Germany's intensification of anti-Jewish persecutions and
genocide. According to historian
Jeffrey Herf, the Nazis used the purported international Jewish conspiracy to answer "such seemingly difficult questions as, Why did Britain fight on in 1940 rather than negotiate? Why was it likely that the Soviet regime would collapse like a house of cards following the German invasion of June 1941? Why did Franklin Roosevelt oppose Hitler? Why did the anti-Hitler coalition remain intact as the Red Army continued to push toward Central Europe after spring 1943?" Nazi belief in a powerful, international Jewish conspiracy pulling the strings of world affairs was not dispelled by the ease with which the German Jewish community was expropriated and forced into exile.
Malaysia Former Malaysian prime minister
Mahathir Mohamad has repeatedly asserted that Jews control the world by proxy.
Turkey In 2007, the bestselling book in Turkey was ''
Musa'nın Çocukları: Tayyip ve Emine'' (The Children of Moses: Tayyip and Emine) by
Ergün Poyraz. Poyraz claims that there is an international Jewish conspiracy pulling the strings behind the world, including installing
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as prime minister of Turkey.
United States In ''
The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem, American industrialist Henry Ford largely recycled the Protocols
and did more than any other American to promote them. During the First Red Scare, United States Congress investigated the veracity of the Protocols
. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' were well-received by some conservative evangelicals in the 1920s and 1930s. However, even those evangelicals who believed that there was an international Jewish conspiracy against Christianity did not consider themselves anti-Jewish and hoped that Jews would convert to Christianity. By the end of the 1930s, the belief in an international Jewish conspiracy came to be discredited in conservative evangelical circles as it was seen as inconsistent with world events, especially the rise of Nazi Germany. In the early 1990s, Christian televangelist
Pat Robertson's book
The New World Order was criticized by
The New York Review of Books, the Anti-Defamation League, and others for his apparent promotion of the conspiracy. Robertson was said to have "relied on the work of Nesta Webster and
Eustace Mullins". In 2020, pro-
Trump campaigner Mary Ann Mendoza was removed from the schedule of the
Republican National Convention after she retweeted a thread asserting a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. In 2021, it was reported that almost half of
QAnon followers believed that there is a Jewish plot to take over the world. ==See also==