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2009] OUTRAGEOUS CLAIMS OF CHRISTOPHER JON BJERKNESS 19
instruct Jews to murder Christians and to impose the “Noahide
Laws” in the “End Times,” which laws forbid Christianity on pain of
death, because Jews consider Jesus to be an idol, and the Noahide
Laws forbid idol worship. 11
3. Jews wanted to discredit and ruin the Turkish Empire and the religion
of Islam in order to create a secure environment for the formation
of a Jewish colony in the Land of Palestine.
4. Jews wanted to remove an ancient enemy from the region—an
enemy which would oppose the anointment of a Jewish King in Jerusalem
as the crowning of the Anti-Christ.
5. Jews wanted to eliminate a skilled business and political competitor.
6. Jewish wanted to foment a war between Christians and Moslems,
which would start in the Balkans and grow into a world war which
would destroy many of the empires and monarchies, and which
would artificially pit Moslems and Christians, Slavs and Teutons
against one another and leave the Jews standing in Jerusalem. (p. 66)
In his usual fashion, Bjerkness supplies no supporting evidence for any of
these claims.
Such was the supposed power of the Turkish Jewish community at the
turn of the twentieth century, according to Bjerkness, that they manipulated
and corrupted the Armenian leadership into accepting their own extermination
and further convinced the Kurds of Turkey, some of whom were complicit
in the Armenian Genocide, that they would be rewarded for their
participation in the genocide (pp. 93-95). 12
Spread through this first chapter, and a staple of Bjerkness’ website
(www.jewishracism.com), is his frontal assault on the religion of Judaism,
nowhere more apparent than in the following excerpt:
Judaism creates and perpetuates a culture of racism, war, genocide, segregation,
deceit, theft, exploitation, supremacism, 13 human sacrifice, etc.
11. Jews do not consider Jesus an idol, but, historically, a false or failed messianic
pretender. The laws themselves, according to Talmudic tradition, were given
by God to Noah to re-establish human communities after the Great Flood. They
included prohibitions against idolatry, murder, theft, adultery, and blasphemy, as
well as dietary restrictions (specifically, eating flesh taken from a living animal)
and the establishment of a judicial system.
12. Bjerkness also argues that contemporary Jews have manipulated the Kurds
to destroy not only present-day Iraq, but also Iran, Turkey, and Syria, with an ultimate
goal in the Middle East of “nuclear massacres” (p. 177).
13. Significantly and interestingly enough, fellow traveler, antisemite and neo-
Nazi David Duke of Louisiana entitled his second book, published in 2005, Jewish
Supremacism: My Awakening to the Jewish Question. It was both a rewrite and an
expanded edition of his earlier text, My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding
(Covington: Free Speech Press, 1998/1999).