Back from France.
There was a heap of newspapers that had piled up while I was away. I mostly skim-read the headlines. But the Charlie Brooker article in today's Guardian made me stop and look more carefully.
The idea that the world is secretly controlled by giant shape-shifting lizards may sound hilarious but the "joke" has a very dark history.
David Icke has always strenuously denied that when he says "lizards control the world" he actually means Jews, but if you substitute the word Jew for the word lizard it does sound like the usual Jewish World Conspiracy clap-trap. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/David_Icke#Jews_Lizards
While Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker was Twittering last week that Cameron was a lizard the Guardian politics editor Mehdi Hasan helpfully commented (in the Guardian) about Cameron: "his great-great-grandfather, Emile Levita, a German-Jewish financier". http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/mehdihasan
In Norway in 2003: "In a course held recently in Oslo, Baumann [an extremist] was reluctant to present antisemitic theories but a question from the audience must have sparked something off, prompting him to read a section from a book by David Icke, the British conspiracy theorist. Icke thinks the world is ruled by a group of Jews, who are really reptiles in human form, emanating from outer space to colonise the earth" http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=26
None of this stuff is new - there are thousands of other examples on the internet (John Buchan in The 39 Steps warned about master criminals being run by a "little white-faced Jew in a bath-chair with an eye like a rattle-snake").
Perhaps Charlie Brooker is just "pushing the envelope" like most so-called alternative funny guys. Perhaps Mehdi Hasan used the phrase "Jewish financier" because it was essential background information to the piece he was writing. Perhaps the Jewish-lizards stories circulating in Norway had nothing to do with what later happened in that country.
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