Antisemitism as a Specific Phenomenon - Journal for the Study of ...

14 JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM [ VOL. 1:13
With the advent of the Internet and the ease of constructing websites,
the haters have proliferated and continue to spew their filth through slick
and professional-looking sites, including streaming video, PDF books and
documents, and the like. Indeed, a case could be made that the international
community of haters has become “unionized,” or, if not unionized, then, at
the very least, networked. One finds much of the same material, including
conspiracy screeds and downloadable and printable copies of the Protocols,
available on many of these sites, for example, www.radioislam.org,
www.biblebelievers.org, and www.aztlan.org. (And, despite direct protest,
printed copies of the translation of the Protocols by Victor Marsden [1866-
1920] are available for purchase at key online bookstores.)
One such site— www.jewishracism.com –is that run by Chicagobased
Christopher Jon Bjerkness (b. 1967), who, according to Winnipegbased
colleague Henry Makow (author of Illumnati: The Cult that Hijacked
the World, Winnipeg: Silas Green, 2008), “is a scholar . . . who thinks he
knows what plagues mankind and believes his knowledge is necessary to
stop Armegeddon,” 3 and whose site is “dedicated to protecting all Jews
from the antisemitism and inhumanity of racist Jews.” 4 Makow goes on to
note that:
He [Bjerkness] says a heretical cult, the “Shabbatian Frankists,” controls
organized Jewry, including Zionism and Freemasonry. . . According to
their messianic system, Redemption requires that the Rothschilds become
God, i.e. king of the world. They will see the sacrifice of 2/3 of all Jews
Steven Leonard Jacobs and Mark Weitzman, Dismantling the Big Lie: The Protocols
of the Elders of Zion (Los Angeles & Jersey City: Simon Wiesenthal Center &
KTAV Publishing House, 2003); Binjamin W. Segel, A Lie and a Libel: The History
of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Lincoln and London: University of
Nebraska Press, 2005).
3. Taken from his own website (http://www.savethemales.ca/002089.html) and
column of July 22, 2007, “What Every Jew (and Non-Jew) Should Know” and
accessed August 17, 2009. Makow (b. 1949), who received his PhD in English
Literature from the University of Toronto, is himself a well-known conspiracy theorist
who sees the world controlled by a secretive and hidden hand (read “Jews”
and “Freemasons”) whereby the media stifle information, democracy is a means of
social control, and a central banking cartel based in London (read ““Rothschild”) is
pulling the strings. Makow made his money from the sale and translation of his
board game Scruples, which sold several million copies worldwide.
4. Bjerkness, who claims pride in his Norwegian and Jewish heritage, attempts
to legitimate himself somewhat in the eyes of his readers by arguing that he has a
“Jewish connection” because his maternal grandfather, a famous Norwegian musician,
was Jewish. Having such a relative, however, does not give him credibility
either in the eyes of the organized Jewish community or among the network of
haters.