Is Texe Anti-Semitic?

Well, is he?

My feeling is: Almost certainly.

No, Texe never comes out and accuses Jews of secretly running the world. Nor, as far as I can tell, has he ever offered The Protocols of the Elders of Zion for sale, or anything else overtly anti-Semitic. And I'll give him the benefit of the doubt -- though I'm less and less certain why I should, the more I read -- and say that I don't think he wants to break out the Zyklon B.

But: in the same way that Texe's flirtation with date-setting leaves little doubt that he's predicting imminent disaster, while still leaving room to wriggle free, his flirtation with anti-Semitism leaves little doubt about his true meaning -- while still leaving room for deniability. It's a very polite form of prejudice.

Check out this advertisement in the May 1998 newsletter for a tape called The Esther Option (read the full text here, on Texe's website):

Is there an ongoing plot by religious Jews to use Monica Lewinsky to unseat President Bill Clinton and replace him with Vice President Al Gore? [...] Do Zionist Jews hold Monica Lewinsky up and acclaim her as their new "Queen Esther?" [...]

Monica Lewinsky, herself a Jew, and her attorney, William Ginsburg, also a Jew, have expressed to the Israeli media Monica's unerring love and devotion for the nation of Israel. Monica's attorney even suggested that Monica would soon leave the U.S.A. and go to live in Israel. [...]

A powerful group of fanatical, right-wing Rabbis placed a curse of death on the late Israeli Prime Minister Rabin just before he was assassinated. Reportedly, Israel's Shin Bet (Secret Service) then carried out their decree and arranged for the murder of Rabin. Has this same cabal of Talmudic Jewish Rabbis placed a curse on Bill Clinton for his destruction? Have the Rabbis performed kabalistic, voodoo type rituals to cast a spell on the President?

Why is there a historic struggle now going on in the media, with the left-wing Jewish controlled faction (CBS News, CNN, Time Magazine, and others) going head-to-head with the right-wing Jewish-controlled faction (Newsweek magazine, ABC News, The Washington Post newspaper and others)? Which faction has been rigging the opinion polls to favor the President? [...]

DISCOVER WHY THE FUTURE OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD MAY NOW REST ON THE SHOULDERS OF A GIGGLY, IMMORAL, 24 YEAR OLD, JEWISH WOMAN NAMED MONICA LEWINSKY--A WOMAN ACCLAIMED BY MANY RELIGIOUS JEWS AS THEIR NEW "QUEEN ESTHER."

--Texe Marrs

"Kabbalistic, voodoo type rituals"? Please. Why not just accuse "this same cabal of Talmudic Jewish Rabbis" of poisoning wells, or sacrificing babies?

Here's an article from January 1998:

The Secret War in Russia. Totally unreported in our controlled press is the secret war raging in Russia between the Jewish Mafia and nationalist Russians. Super-rich Russian Jews committed to Israel, backed by the U.S.A., and supporting the New World Order, now have a stranglehold on the Russian economy. They also covertly rule Yeltsin and the Kremlin Government in Moscow. These wealthy Jews constitute a banking and corporate Mafia with strong ties to the global criminal element and the Russian Secret Police (old KGB). Opposing them is a loose coalition of former military brass, a growing middle class that is devotedly patriotic, and former Communists. The conflict between these two factions is potentially explosive and inflammable. The meltdown of the Russian economy has left the masses hostile, angry, frustrated, and susceptible to violence. They don't want a return to hard-line Communism, but they also despise the Jewish Mafia that now rule over them. Look for the powder keg to blow, possibly in mid-1999.

WP advertisement (not sure which newsletter it would have been in, as I didn't order enough to stay on Texe's mailing list):

From an article entitled "A Woman VP in 2000?" (I think that's the title, anyway...read the full text here):

Only Liberals, Globalists, and Pro-Israel Candidates Need Apply

Prominent Jewish millionaires affiliated with the Illuminati are demanding that the liberal Feinstein be vaulted to the VP slot because she is Jewish, rabidly pro-Israel, a supporter of a global police state, a friend to gun control radicals, and an abortion leader.

However, some key members of the Illuminati are backing First Lady Hillary Clinton for Vice President on an Al Gore/Hillary Clinton ticket. If Hillary gets the job, she and her lesbo-feminist girlfriends will continue to run the White House from behind-the-scenes, just as they do now in President Bill Clinton's administration.

WP advertisement from July 1999:

One Nation Under Israel--The Conquest of America: Almost all our nation's most powerful White House officials are liberal Jewish globalists hostile to American sovereignty. They worked to defeat Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel's elections. Meanwhile, liberal Jews control premier, Christian-hating, propaganda groups such as our news media, TV, Hollywood, the ACLU, the ADL, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Tragically, the globalist-minded Jews who now dominate the U.S.A. also seek Communist control over the nation of Israel, and they reject the God of Moses and Abraham. Yet, anyone who reports those facts is instantly labeled "anti-Semitic" and is smeared. Chuck Carlson of We Hold These Truths reports these things with great reluctance and sadness. "We must save Israel by shining the light of truth on this unfortunate situation," Carlson stresses. "We must befriend Israel and the Jews, oppose the enemies of America and Israel, and prevent another Holocaust."

Give a fool enough rope...

It might be argued that the quote from Chuck Carlson shows Texe isn't really anti-Semitic -- that while there are some (rich, powerful) Jews whose actions he finds reprehensible, he does not condemn the Jewish race itself as irredeemably evil. If this is true, then the best that you could say about Texe is that he's grossly irresponsible in the way he bandies about the usual anti-Semitic mynths, and fantastically and horrifyingly ignorant of what has been done in the name of those myths.

Texe Marrs didn't strike me as an idiot, though. Whatever else he might be, throughout the interview he was articulate and intelligent. I suspect that Texe realized that, on this occasion, it suited him to be on on his best behaviour for a "liberal" Canadian audience and interviewer -- an interviewer that had failed to call Texe on his already-displayed willingness to flirt with anti-Semitism.

There are two caveats to be stated (Thank you, Cole Mitchell):

1. I am at a disadvantage: I'm unable to afford to buy all the materials in question (poor me!), and my local library has no more than a handful of his books. I'm relying on the copies I have of his newsletter, and the archive of the same on his website. For all I know, his tapes are actually full of stinging denunciations of anti-Semitism. Perhaps he's written whole books on why Jews are the greatest. Maybe some of his best friends are even Jews.

2. And, Texe did say in the interview:

   Now there's one group that I think are, they're evil in their works. And that's neo-Nazis. [...] I'm totally opposed to [Canadian Holocaust revisionist and anti-Semite Ernst] Zundel and this Holocaust revisionism. [...] Now, I think Zundel has every right to [speak freely]. And, and I want to add, I think that Jewish organizations and just good Christian folks of all stripes have every right to say, "Zundel, you are a nut." Hitler was a maniac, and I don't care if it was one hundred thousand or six million Jews-- You know, let's face it: there was a holocaust. We can quibble about numbers, but I'm not going to quibble about numbers. If he killed fifty people he was a monster.

But dammit, answer me these:

• Why are there so many gratuitous references to someone being a Jew?

• Actually, screw the gratuitous references and insinuations: why does Texe keep writing that Jews control the American Civil Liberties Union, or "the media," or the Vatican, or maybe Russia, or possibly the whole world? Why the does he keep writing about "anti-Christian Jewish lobby groups" or "Christ-hating Jewish Rabbis"?

I'm considering interviewing Texe again, on my own nickel this time, in order to give him a chance to respond. It's gonna be a while, though, so don't hold your breath. In the meantime, my conclusions stand.

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Those damn lesbo-feminists!

The astute among you will have noticed that the second paragraph had nothing to do with anti-Semitism. I could try and tie it in with Texe's pointed questioning about Hillary's new-found Jewishness...but really, with a phrase like "she and her lesbo-feminist girlfriends", how could I possibly resist?

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Gratuitous References

In the August 1997 newsletter, Texe writes that the best-selling The Bible Code is "pure malarkey" and biblically unsound -- and was written by "New Age-oriented Jew" Michael Drosnin.

In the July 1997 newsletter, Texe also notes that "possibly the Earth's most wicked rock group, Marilyn Manson" is on the Interscope record label -- "owned by Edgar Bronfman, head of the World Jewish Congress."

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More Explicit References

From the December 1997 newsletter:

The Worldwide Church of God Cover-up (Part II): Texe Marrs again interviews Lin Stuhlman, founder of the Exit and Support Network. At it's [sic] peak, Herbert Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God (WCOG) was an octopus-like, religious monstrosity. Are its tentacles still alive today? Is the WCOG organization involved with others in establishing a One World Rreligion wich will produce the Antichrist? Do Jewish money interests secretly control the WCOG and also influence the Promise Keepers, Billy Graham, and many other ministries? Why did Herbert Armstrong wear Jewish "Star of David" cuff-links? Why does the WCOG today promote Chuck Colson, Roman Catholicism, and the environmental movement? Is the Vatican's Order of the Jesuits, working with Jewish interests, in the driver's seat? Are the WCOG and the Seventh Day Adventist General Conference in league with Freemasonry? Are all of these groups and others uniting now to launch a last days assault on true Christianity?

In the November 1998 newsletter, Texe writes about American leglislation to establish a federal Office of Religious Persecution Monitoring (ORPM).

"Anti-Christian Jewish lobby groups in the U.S.A., such as the Jewish ADL, the World Jewish Congress, the ACLU, Freedom House, and the JDL, were all for the ORPM legislation. They planned to use ORPM to punish devout Moslems and crush Islamic nations like the impoverished Sudan in Africa. However, once the Jewish leadership realized that the bill, as written, could backfire on Israel, they decided to backtrack and rethink it."

From a WP advertisement, same issue: "The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Interviews Texe Marrs: Two BBC reporters came to America to interview Texe Marrs. Fascinating topics include: [...] Are wealthy Jews responsible for the global conspiracy?"

March, 1997:

JERUSALEM, BLOOD AND DYNASTY: A LOOK AT EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR.

Could a fabulously wealthy Jewish magnate -- the world's top liquor producer -- be the hidden overseer of the global Illuminati conspiracy? [...]

"Edgar Bronfman, Sr., would have to be considered a candidate for the select list of unelected rulers, those anonymous few who determine America's debts and control her destiny." These are the words of Dr. Dennis Cuddy and Robert Goldsborough, in their authoritative book, The Network of Power.

In Circle of Intrigue, my book exposing the hidden, Inner Circle of the Illuminati conspiracy, I note that Bronfman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Significantly, he is also President of the World Jewish Congress, an organization which serves as a prime fount of anti-Christian activities. [...]

Some believe that Bronfman and the elite of the World Jewish Congress are the real leaders of the shadow World Government. They contend that the members of the Bilderberg and Trilateral groups stand below the World Jewish Congress in the hierarchy of the New World Order conspiracy. My own research indicates that the same, identical cabal of the super-rich control all these organizations. [...]

Notably, our Holy Bible warns us of those evil men in the last days "which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan" (Revelation 2:9). God's Word clearly prophesies that ungodly Jewish leaders will sell out to Satan and his World Conspiracy. Through their great wealth and political chicanery, they will convince the nation-state of Israel to enter into a "convenant with death" and an "agreement with hell" (Isaiah 28:14, 17-18).

Moreover, by their Talmudic perversions and hateful rejection of the Truth found only in Christ Jesus, it is prophesied that these wicked men will turn the latter-day city of Jerusalem into a boiling cesspool and sewer. Indeed, in Revelation 11:8, the end-times city of Jerusalem is described spritually as "Sodom and Egypt."

Edgar Bronfman, Sr., and his Jewish World Congress posess untold wealth and wield frightening political power. But in launching their unholy, apocalyptic war against the saints of God, they will be making a horrible mistake.

November 1996: "[Republican Jack] Kemp is a big friend of Abraham Foxman, head of the antichrist, Jewish Masonic group known as the ADL."

Don't forget about how "[a]lmost all our nation's most powerful White House officials are liberal Jewish globalists hostile to American sovereignty. [...] Meanwhile, liberal Jews control premier, Christian-hating, propaganda groups such as our news media, TV, Hollywood, the ACLU, the ADL, and the Southern Poverty Law Center."

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Opportunities Missed; or, Your Interviewer Apologizes

Why didn't I ask Texe how he felt about Jews? Because it honestly didn't occur to me. This shows, I think, the rather obvious lack of interviewing skills, and the background research that I didn't do.

Given what Texe had already published by the time I interviewed him in December 1997 (read quotes here, here, here and here) -- and which I'd already received, having been on his mailing list nearly a year -- it should have occurred to me. Given all that I've detailed above (find it yourself), I should not have waited until now (November 1999) to wonder about the references to Jews.
But I did. In fact, previous versions of this essay were much more lenient toward Texe Marrs -- but I kept coming across more and more troubling quotes that have led me to my conclusions.

I have a lot to learn about interviewing people, and preparing thoroughly beforehand.

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Footnote to a footnote.

WP advertisement, January 1997:

_The Holocaust Museum and its Ugly War on Christian Truth: Texe Marrs interviews Scott Lively, author of The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party. Why is the Holocaust Museum -- run by Jewish organizations through the generosity of millions of dollars of your_ taxpayer money -- telling such horrible lies about true Christianity? Scott Lively documents how the government-funded Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. promotes homosexuality and, thereby, actually insults and besmriches the memory of those who died in the holocaust. Lively also discusses an offenseive, biased anti-Christian film regularly shown to visitors by museum officials. Lively, whose book is co-authored by a Jew and endorsed by both Christian and Jewish pro-family groups, states that Christians who truly oppose Nazism and anti-Semitism must also oppose what the Holocaust Museum is doing to undermine the cause of righteousness.

WP advertisement, April 1997:

New Age Cults and Religions: Texe Marrs unmasks the two greatest and most dangerous false, New Age cultic religions of our day: Roman Catholicism and Talmudic Orthodox Judaism. The Vatican has swiftly changed its doctrines since the 1960s era of liberal Pope John XXIII. Devilish New Age influences have recently been introduced, mixing with existing ancient paganism. These evil influences have increased and intensified under Pope John Paul II. Meanwhile, the Orthodox Jews strongly embrace the Talmud but reject Jesus Christ and the truths of the Torah and Old Testament. Moses and the prophets are neglected while Babylonian, man-made laws and traditions are exalted. This is exactly what Jesus warned of and prophesied about!

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