Twin Elephants in the Room: The Rothschilds and Antisemitism/Anti-Semitism

Let me briefly deal with each one, starting with antisemitism, which was birthed first. On October 27, 2022, the Philadelphia Inquirer published the following headline and story by The Grammarian. It certainly caught my attention, and the reason for this essay.

Antisemitism vs. anti-Semitism: Which is worse? That little hyphen is far more consequential than it looks. A quick history lesson explains why.

The word Semitic predates anti-Semitic by a full half-century, but while antisemitic solely indicates hatred of Jews, Semitic refers to a full family of languages: not just Hebrew, but also Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, and ancient Assyrian. The word Semitic was originally just about language; its association with people who spoke those languages didn’t come until later. [I wonder who made that decision?]

Therefore anti-Semitic, with a hyphen, isn’t as precise as it could be. The hyphenated version suggests someone …is intolerant toward not just Jews, but also Arabs, Ethiopians, ancient Syrians, and others. Anti-Semitic, with a hyphen, isn’t as precise as it could be.

The definition is extremely precise because it names specific languages, and the people who speak them. Because it is important to elicit sympathy for their cause, Zionists have caused the word ‘anti-semitic’ to mean anti-Jewish. The fact is that the word’s original meaning, as defined above, referred to languages, which were spoken by a number of peoples who lived in the now so-called ‘Middle East’, a subject I will deal with in a minute.

What’s more, according to both the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and the Anti-Defamation League (don’t even try to remove that hyphen), the 19th-century emergence of “antisemitism” as referring solely to Jews coincided with the false notion of a Jewish “race” — a misconception that would lead directly to the 20th-century Nazi pseudoscience that called for extermination of that race. [A pseudoscience produced a pseudoscience.]

Both groups have therefore eliminated the spelling anti-Semitic in favor of antisemitic, and encouraged others to do the same. The unhyphenated spelling is favored by many scholars and institutions in order to dispel the idea that there is an entity ‘Semitism’ which ‘anti-Semitism’ opposes,” writes the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. “Antisemitism should be read as a unified term so that the meaning of the generic term for modern Jew-hatred is clear.”

There, you have the truth. Their objective has been reached. I am very clear that Zionists want either word to mean ‘anti-Jewish’. For now the economics and politics of Zionism will remain for another day. I move on the “Middle East.”

According to Wikipedia,

The Middle East is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province, East Thrace (European part of Turkey), Egypt, Iran, the Levant (including Ash-Sham and Cyprus, Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), and the Socotra Archipelago (a part of Yemen)… Several major religions have their origins in the Middle East, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

The land described above is Africa. At least it was until the Arabian Peninsula (1,200,000 square miles) was cut off from the Continent of Africa with the construction of the Suez Canal, which was built between 1859–1869 by the Ottoman Empire, and financed by the French House of Rothschild (Bonds and Shares).

According to Wikipedia,

…the term “Middle East” may have originated in the 1850s in the British India Office [The privately-owned British East India Company].

You can rest assured that it definitely originated in the 1850’s, in the office of the British East India Company, and was the raison d’etre for the Suez Canal’s construction. The British East India Company would not allow the financial benefit of the newly discovered oil in the region accrue to Black Africa. Ten (10) years later, they renamed a part of Africa, and gifted control of it to the Ottoman Empire, an Empire indebted to their “Court Factor(s).”

And speaking of “Court Factor”, now it is time to address the other twin ‘elephant in the room,’ the Rothschilds.

Mayer Amschel [Rothschild] was a “Court Factor.”

In 1815, his son Nathanial Rothschild made the following statement:

“I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British Money supply.” — Bill Still, Money Masters, 1996.

Nathanial was only repeating what his daddy said 25 years earlier.

“Let me issue and control a Nation’s money supply and I care not who makes its laws…Who controls the issuance of money controls the government…the few who understand the system will either be so interested from its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from them.” — Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790

My additional research on Mayer Amschel [Rothschild] uncovered information on his wife that I had never known before. It certainly shed a great deal of light on Capitalism’s growth and development, as well as the reason for the centuries-long Jewish hatred, which seem to be inextricably bound.

Gutle von Schnapper, the wife of banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking house, one of the most influential European banks, was born on August 23, 1753, in Frankfurt’s Judengasse, the daughter of Wolf Salomon Schnapper. Her father was a money dealer and court factor for the Principality of Saxe-Meiningen.

Court factor? I had never heard the term “court factor” before. Have you? Here is what I found on Wikipedia when I googled it.

In the early modern period, a court Jew, or court factor was a Jewish banker who handled the finances of, or lent money to, European, mainly German, royalty and nobility. In return for their services, court Jews gained social privileges, including, in some cases, being granted noble status.

Examples of what would be later called court Jews emerged in the High Middle Ages when the royalty, the nobility, and the church borrowed money from “money changers” or employed them as financiers. Among the most notable of these were Aaron of Lincoln and Vivelin of Strasbourg. Jewish financiers could use their family connections to provide their sponsors with finance, food, arms, ammunition, gold, and precious metals. [Is that a conspiracy?]

…The rise of the absolute monarchies in Central Europe brought many Jews, mostly of Ashkenazi origin, into the position of negotiating loans for the various courts. They could amass personal fortunes and gain political and social influence. However, the court Jew had social connections and influence in the Christian world mainly through the Christian nobility and church. Due to the precarious position of Jews, some nobles could ignore their debts. If the sponsoring noble died, his Jewish financier could face exile or execution.

In an effort to avoid such fate, some court bankers in the late 18th century — such as Samuel Bleichroder, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, and Aron Elias detached their businesses from these courts and established what eventually developed into full-fledged banks.

Prohibited from nearly every other trade, some Jews began to occupy an economic niche as moneylenders in the Middle Ages. Only they were allowed to take interest on loans, since — while the Church condemned usury universally — canon law was only applied to Christians and not to Jews.

Eventually, a sizable sector of the Jewish community were engaged in financial occupations, and the community was a financially highly successful part of the medieval economy. The religious restrictions on moneylending had inadvertently created a source of monopoly rents, causing profits associated with moneylending to be higher than they otherwise would have been.

…Although the phenomenon of “Court Jewry” did not occur until the early 17th century, examples of what would be later called court Jews can be found earlier in Jewish moneylenders who accumulated enough capital to finance the royalty and the nobility. By the 16th century, Jewish financiers became increasingly connected to rulers and courts. Josef Goldschmidt (d. 1572) of Frankfurt, became the most important Jewish businessman of his era, trading not only with the Fuggers and the Imhoffs, but also with the nobility and the Church… In the early 17th century the Hapsburgs employed their services.

…At the dawn of mercantilism, while most Sephardic Jews were primarily active in the west in maritime and colonial trade, the Ashkenazi Jews in the service of the emperor and princes tended toward domestic trade. They were mostly wealthy businessmen, distinguished above their co-religionists by their commercial instincts and their adaptability. Court Jews frequently came into conflict with court rivals and co-religionists.

…Jews were sometimes assigned the role of local tax collectors.

When you control a nation’s finances, you control the nation, as aptly noted by both Mayer Amschel and his son Nathanial. No group of people want their lives determined by others. Presently, humanity is enslaved to money, and the privately owned banks who hold their debt.

I now have a much better idea of how fiat currency (Monetary Economy, 1690) facilitated Capitalism’s total grip on commerce and finance, as well as a clear understanding of why the centuries-long, deep-seated Jewish hatred continues to this day.

For the record, I am definitely not anti-Jewish (antisemitism), nor anti-Semitic. Jews, Christians, and Arabs living in what is called the “Middle East” are Semitic peoples. Any dissatisfaction that anyone has should be directed at Zionist economic and political activity, not the religion of Jews, Christians, and Arabs.

Back to Mrs. Rothschild.

On August 29, 1770, at the age of 17, she married Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who had set up his own business in 1763 and ran a trading business in coins, medals, and antiques together with his brother. Gutle’s dowry for the common household that was to be set up was 2,400 guilders — a considerable amount, which roughly corresponded to her husband’s annual income.

Gutle gave birth to a total of 20 children, ten of whom, five girls and five boys, reached adulthood. The couple first lived in the Hinterpfan house, which they had to share with two of Mayer Amschel’s brothers. In 1787, Gutle and her husband moved into the house zum Crunen Schild at Judengasse 148, the future ancestral home of the Rothschild family.

There she spent the rest of her life. Some of their children were also born in this house. In addition to the family, Gutle Rothschild was also responsible for the money changing and currency exchange business. During her husband’s numerous business trips, she also oversaw the goods trade and the credit business in the Rothschild house. [She was the Administrator and Manager of the Rothschild Bank, so give respect to women, who have been “do’ in it since time began.]

Because Gutle survived her husband by 37 years, she was able to witness how her sons led the Rothschild banking house to international fame. During his lifetime, Mayer Amschel ensured clear ownership structures. After his death, his share in the bank passed to his sons alone, while his wife Gutle and their daughters inherited most of his private assets.

Gutle, in the revolutionary year 1830, after a family reunion, is said to have reassured her worried neighbors in Frankfurt’s Judengasse with the words:

“There will be no war, my sons will not give any money for it!” — Wikipedia 1830.

In 1849 Gutle Rothschild, stated:

“if my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” — Bill Still, Money Masters, 1996

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