The QAnon ‘Pedophile Panic’ Propaganda Is An Updated Version Of The Nazi ‘Blood Libel’ Propaganda

Update to The Republican Party Has Fully Embraced the QAnon Conspiracy Cult – An Absolute Bar To Holding Political Office (Updated).

The QAnon conspiracy cult is a loosely organized, far-right network of people who believe the world is controlled by a satanic cabal of pedophiles and cannibals -some even say lizard people – made up of politicians (mostly Democrats), mainstream media, journalists, and Hollywood entertainers. This cabal is accused of controlling a “deepstate” government whose purpose is to undermine and attack Donald Trump and his sycophant supporters.

Yes, they are all quite insane.

The QAnon conspiracy cult is just an updated version of one of the oldest enduring anti-semitic conspiracy theories, Blood Libel (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum):

Blood Libels throughout History

Historically, blood libels often took place close to Passover, when Jews were charged with using the blood of Christian children to bake matzahs. The proximity of such charges to Easter was thus also often associated with the continuing belief that Jews were responsible for the Passion and Crucifixion of Jesus. Blood libels, together with allegations of well poisoning, were a major theme in Jewish persecution in Europe throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern period. They were a central component in the development of modern antisemitism in the 19th century.

Blood libel accusations often led to pogroms, violent riots launched against Jews and frequently encouraged by government authorities.

Murder is expressly forbidden in the Torah, as are the blood sacrifices which were practiced by ancient pagan religions. In fact, Jewish dietary laws (kashrut), forbid the consumption of blood in food and require all blood to be drained from slaughtered animals before consumption.

Blood Libels in the Middle Ages

The earliest references to blood libel charges against the Jews can be found in the Hellenistic writings of Apion in the 2nd century BCE. However, the spread of Christianity in western Europe saw the growth of the blood libel myth, in particular in the 12th century in the aftermath of the First Crusade.

The first case of the blood libel in Europe in the Middle Ages was that of William of Norwich in 1144. The Jews of Norwich, England, were charged with ritual murder after the body of a young boy (William) was discovered stabbed to death in the woods. In this case, the Jews of Norwich were alleged to have “bought a Christian child [the ‘boy-martyr’ William] before Easter and tortured him with all the tortures wherewith our Lord was tortured, and on Long Friday hanged him on a rood in hatred of our Lord.”

Jumping ahead to Nazi Germany:

Blood Libels in the Nazi Era and after the Holocaust

The Nazis made effective use of the blood libel charge in their antisemitic propaganda. In 1923, Julius Streicher established his virulently antisemitic newspaper, Der Stürmer (The Attacker), which frequently employed the blood libel motif. The May 1934 volume of Der Stuermer was devoted specifically to the blood libel, accusing Jews of practicing ritual murder to secure the blood of Christians to use in Jewish religious rituals with the headline “Jewish Murder Plan against Gentile Humanity Revealed.”

Even after the Holocaust, the blood libel charge figured prominently in a number of pogroms that broke out in Poland after the war. Most prominent was the Kielce pogromof July 1946. The pogrom View This Term in the Glossary was sparked by charges that a nine-year-old non-Jewish boy, Henryk Blaszczyk, who had left his home in Kielce without informing his parents, had been kidnapped and hidden in the basement of the local Jewish Committee building in Kielce. Although he returned home two days later, the accusation led to a pogrom that resulted in the deaths of 42 Jews and sparked the widespread flights of thousands of Jews out of Poland once and for all.

The Roman Catholic Church has repudiated the blood libel charge, removing Simon of Trent from the list of saints in 1965. Nonetheless, the myth of the blood libel remains powerful into the 21st century … The Protocols of the Elders of Zion portrays the Jewish people as engaging in a conspiracy to rule the world, and presents Jews as a people who murder Christian children and drain their blood to bake matzah.

Gregory Stanton explained in 2020 in a post at Just Security blog, QAnon is a Nazi Cult, Rebranded:

A secret cabal is taking over the world. They kidnap children, slaughter, and eat them to gain power from their blood. They control high positions in government, banks, international finance, the news media, and the church. They want to disarm the police. They promote homosexuality and pedophilia. They plan to mongrelize the white race so it will lose its essential power.

Does this conspiracy theory sound familiar? It is. The same narrative has been repackaged by QAnon.

I have studied and worked to prevent genocide for forty years. Genocide Watch and the Alliance Against Genocide, the first international anti-genocide coalition, see such hate-filled conspiracy theories as early warning signs of deadly genocidal violence.

The plot, described above, was the conspiracy “revealed” in the most influential anti-Jewish pamphlet of all time. It was called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.It was written by Russian anti-Jewish propagandists around 1902. It collected myths about a Jewish plot to take over the world that had existed for hundreds of years. Central to its mythology was the Blood Libel, which claimed that Jews kidnapped and slaughtered Christian children and drained their blood to mix in the dough for matzos consumed on Jewish holidays.

The Nazis published a children’s book of the Protocols that they required in the curriculum of every primary school in Germany. The Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer (derived from the German word for “Storm”) spread the Blood Libel. Hitler’s Mein Kampf, his narcissistic autobiography and manifesto for his battle against the Jewish plot to rule the world, copied his conspiracy theories from the Protocols.

The Nazis worshiped Adolf Hitler as the Leader who would rescue the white race from this secret Jewish plot. Nazi “storm troopers” (“storm detachment” – Sturmabteilung) helped bring Hitler to power. Nazi Germany went on to conquer Europe and murder six million Jews and millions of Roma, Slavs, LGBTQ and other people.

America had its own dark side. Henry Ford echoed Nazi hatred of Jews and had 500,000 copies of the Protocols printed and distributed in the U.S. Father Coughlin preached the Protocols on national radio. The Ku Klux Klan combined its white supremacist racism with hatred of Jews.

QAnon’s conspiracy theory is a rebranded version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

QAnon purveys the fantasy that a secret Satan-worshiping cabal is taking over the world. Its members kidnap white children, keep them in secret prisons run by pedophiles, slaughter, and eat them to gain power from the essence in their blood. The cabal held the American Presidency under the Clintons and Obama, nearly took power again in 2016, and lurks in a “Deep State” financed by Jews, including George Soros, and in Jews who control the media. They want to disarm citizens and defund the police. They promote abortion, transgender rights, and homosexuality. They want open borders so brown illegal aliens can invade America and mongrelize the white race.

QAnon true believers think Donald Trump will rescue America from this Satanic cabal. At the time of “The Storm,” supporters of the cabal will be rounded up and executed.

The QAnon conspiracy theory has now spread to neo-Nazis in Germany, where over 200,000 German QAnon accounts infest the internet.  A faction known as “Reichsbürger,” or citizens of the Reich, orchestrated a brief storming of Parliament on Aug. 29.

Many people are perplexed at how any rational person could fall for such an irrational conspiracy theory. But modern social science shows that people in groups don’t always think rationally. They respond to fear and terror. They blame their misfortunes on scapegoats. They support narcissistic demagogues they hope will rescue them.

Gregory Stanton concludes: “The world has seen QAnon before. It was called Nazism. In QAnon, Nazism wants a comeback.“

The American Jewish Committee further explains:

WHY IT’S ANTISEMITIC:

Antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish elites, globalists, and bankers are part and parcel of the QAnon belief system, and George Soros and the Rothschilds are consistent targets (see Soros, Rothschild). The use of children in the conspiracy—the need to rescue children from the hands of the powerful globalists—harkens back to medieval blood libel accusations against Jews (see blood libel).

QAnon emerged in October 2017 when anonymous messages appeared on 4chan, an online messaging board used by the far-right. “Q” refers to the top security clearance of the U.S. Department of Energy, while “Anon” references the anonymity of the Q source. “Q” is believed to be a government insider, revealing secrets to his/her followers.

QAnon conspiracy theorists are waiting for the “Storm”—the mass arrest of people in power—and the Great Awakening, where everyone will realize the QAnon theory is the truth. In May 2019, the FBI identified QAnon as a potential domestic terrorist threat.

Yahoo News published a 15-page internal memo from the FBI declaring conspiracy theories a domestic terrorism threat.

Distributed on May 30th, the memo from the bureau’s Phoenix office notes that it is the first report of its kind to take aim at “conspiracy-driven domestic terrorism,” citing a number of violent incidents the bureau believes were linked to conspiracy theories. “The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts,” the document says.

This domestic terrorism threat came to fruition with the violent seditious insurrection in the nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021. QAnon emerges as recurring theme of criminal cases tied to US Capitol siege (excerpt):

An abiding sense of loyalty to the fringe online conspiracy movement known as QAnon is emerging as a common thread among scores of the men and women from around the country arrested for their participation in the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, court records reveal.

The FBI first labeled QAnon and its fluid online community of supporters as a “dangerous extremist group” in August 2019, and over the past two weeks it has featured prominently in criminal indictments filed against many of those alleged to have participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, including a number accused of egregious crimes.

Earlier this year, the ADL’s Center on Extremism announced it is tracking more than 100 problematic political candidates who are running for political office this year. Extremism on the Ballot in 2022. Prominently featured:

Self-described “lifetime member” of the anti-government Oath Keepers Wendy Rogers, a Republican member of the Arizona State Senate running for re-election, has appeared on the antisemitic TruNews streaming platform and tweeted support for Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist leader and organizer. She is also one of the loudest voices in the 2020 election-denial movement. In a December 9, 2021, Gab post she wrote, “Trump won and anyone who doesn’t see that the election was stolen is a FOOL!”

Also her seat mate in her legislative district:

In September 2021, during a “Justice for J6 rally,” Arizona State Rep. Walter Blackman, U.S. congressional candidate (R-AZ), reportedly told the crowd, “The Proud Boys came to one of my events and that was one of the proudest moments of my life.”

“At least forty-five candidates running for office in 2022 have lent credence in some way to the QAnon conspiracy theory; many posted QAnon-related social media content in 2020 or earlier. Several candidates have continued to support the conspiracy theory even as it has morphed into something less recognizable.”

On December 27, Abraham Hamadeh, a Republican candidate for Arizona Attorney General, tweeted “The corrupt media, deep state, the establishment, and even the COURTS worked to rob President Trump and the American people in November 2020. We will never forget — or forgive…”

On December 6, Josh Barnett, U.S. congressional candidate (R-AZ) tweeted, “You do understand that the underlying reason why we are experiencing the pain we are experiencing is because of a stolen election, right?”

On December 5, Arizona State Sen. Wendy Rogers tweeted, “The fake group called Patriot Front that marched on DC with US flags and shields with masks on are Feds. Probably the same Feds who were at the J6 event checking their watches.”

Media Matters adds, Here are the QAnon supporters running for Congress in 2022:

Besides these congressional candidates, there are multiple gubernatorial candidates in the 2022 election cycle who have expressed some level of support for the conspiracy theory, and there are multiple candidates seeking offices that have control over state elections who have supported the conspiracy theory or appealed to its supporters.

Among these 59 current or former candidates who have previously endorsed or given credence at some level to the conspiracy theory or promoted QAnon content:

Arizona

• Josh Barnett

  Josh Barnett is a Republican candidate running in Arizona’s new 1st Congressional District; he started the race in Arizona’s 6th Congressional District prior to the adoption of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission’s final redistricting draft. He unsuccessfully ran for Congress in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District in 2020. In July 2020, in response to an NBC News report about Twitter’s announcement that it would take action against the spread of QAnon content on the platform, Barnett tweeted, “Weird to be so paranoid about something that is not real, right?” On both Facebookand Instagram, he has shared posts with QAnon hashtags. Despite those posts, Barnett claimed in August 2020 that he believes QAnon is “nonsense” and “not even a real thing” and that one of his posts with QAnon hashtags was just “retweeting the article.”

• Ron Watkins
  Ron Watkins is a Republican candidate running in Arizona’s new 2nd Congressional District. He started the race in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District, but it became the state’s 2nd Congressional District after the Arizona redistricting commission finalized the new congressional district lines. Watkins formerly served as administrator of 8chan/8kun (going by the username “CodeMonkeyZ”), and an HBO documentary, Q: Into the Storm, alleged (though not beyond a reasonable doubt) that Watkins had controlled the Q account for at least a period of time, with Watkins saying that his promotion of false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election ​​“was basically three years of intelligence training, teaching normies how to do intelligence work. It’s basically what I was doing anonymously before, but never as Q.” A subsequent analysis from computer scientists also identified Watkins as likely controlling the Q account for at least a period of time.Watkins has also falsely claimed that “there is no QANON,” which echoes a Q post urging supporters to deny that QAnon exists, and has praised Q as “great to open people’s minds to do open source intelligence and open source research” and said the style of his online posts were directly influenced by Q. He also told The New York Times about the Q posts, “There is probably more good stuff than bad,” and named as examples “fighting for the safety of the country, and for the safety of the children of the country.”Additionally, as part of Watkins’ campaign to push false voter fraud claims, he teamed up with a QAnon influencer to post video which he falsely claimed showed wrongdoing by a Dominion Voting Systems employee. (The video caused people to send death threats to the employee.) He also helped spread a QAnon-connected hashtag urging Trump to overturn the election via martial law. He also attended a QAnon conference in Las Vegas organized by a QAnon influencer, and he has interviewed QAnon influencers on his online shows and amplified their content on social media.

• Daniel Wood

  Daniel Wood is a Republican candidate running in Arizona’s 3rd Congressional District. He unsuccessfully ran for Congress in the same district in 2020. Wood, in since-deleted tweets, had repeatedly mentioned the QAnon slogan — “wwg1wga,” short for “where we go one, we go all” — and used the hashtag “#TheGreatAwakening.” On Facebook, Wood has written “I do follow QAnon at times” because its supporters “believe in bringing power back to the people.”

In 2020, the Arizona Mirror identifed several Arizona politicians who have posted or shared QAnon conspiracy theories, including David Farnsworth, and the “QAnon Queen” Kelly Townsend (who shamelessly denied the obvious). Arizona has deep QAnon ties, including its politicians (excerpt):

Longshot Republican congressional candidate Daniel Wood has spoken about his QAnon beliefs and recently had his campaign boosted by Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward.

Another GOP congressional candidate running in a solidly Demcoratic district, Josh Barnett, has also shared QAnon content. On a Facebook Live event with the Arizona GOP, Barnett said his “unifying message” to voters would be ending child trafficking, adding that securing the border, improving the nuclear family and increasing school choice are his campaign planks.

Other Arizona candidates have also embraced QAnon, such as state Senate candidate Suzanne Sharer, who blamed her opponent’s criticism of her Q beliefs for a loss of followers on Twitter. In the same Facebook Live event that Barnett was on, [AZ GQP Chair Kelli]Ward called Sharer a friend of hers and said that the “fake news” would likely try to hold Sharer’s social media past against her, but the Arizona GOP “would not let them.”

State Sen. Vince Leach, a Tucson Republican, posted a political cartoon by Ben Garrison depicting President Donald Trump, his former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and a figure whose head is a large Q marching and preparing to step on miniature figures labeled as globalists, Marxists and traitors.

The Arizona Mirror also reported in 2021, GOP legislators spoke at a QAnon convention chock full of conspiracies and hate:

Four Republican members of Arizona’s state legislature attended a QAnon convention in Las Vegas over the weekend that included speakers from the fringe of the conspiracy world as well as antisemitic imagery. (L to R: Rep. Leo Biasiucci of Lake Havasu City, Rep. Mark Finchem of Oro Valley, Sen. Sonny Borrelli of Lake Havasu City and Sen. Wendy Rogers of Flagstaff.)

One other Arizona politician was in attendance: QAnon leader and congressional candidate Ron Watkins.

The list of candidates above is not exhaustive. There are many more Republican adherents of the QAnon conspiracy cult who need to be identifed and publicly exposed.

Every citizen, but especially the media, needs to do “oppo research”: review the social media accounts of every Republican candidate for office and identify every candidate who has ever posted or shared QAnon messages or memes on their social media, or spoken favorably of known QAnon conspiracy theories in their public statements, or in their campaign materials, or on their campaign website. This needs to be a crowdsource effort. Post what you find in the comments.

These QAnon conspiracy cult adherents need to be identifed and publicly exposed, condemned by other politicians and in media editorials, and tagged for defeat. This cult is disqualifying for holding public office. This scourge of anti-semitic Neo-Nazi fascism must be purged from the Republican Party, and send them crawling back into the muck under the rock from which these hateful creatures emerged.