Over at New Lines Magazine, I wrote about the antisemitic conspiracy theories that are central to the far right’s obsession with sex-trafficking billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his links to the global elite.
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The MAGA world is abuzz with fresh demands that the Donald Trump administration declassify federal records regarding the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the serial pedophile and sex trafficker who was imprisoned in 2019 and died in prison under suspicious circumstances. Epstein’s monstrous crimes continue to draw intense fascination because they took place against a backdrop of sprawling, bipartisan networks of the global elite, with political leaders like Trump and Bill Clinton, Britain’s Prince Andrew, business tycoons, media moguls, prominent scientists and countless others in his orbit.
In the MAGA world, one particular charge has surfaced with intensity — that Epstein may have been an asset of Israeli intelligence.
How should we make sense of this emerging MAGA civil war, and the place of antisemitism within it? A disorienting vertigo can result when people on the right advance critiques of plutocrats and disastrous foreign policies that look from some angles, if one squints, like progressive ones.
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Read more at New Lines Magazine.
Ben Lorber 
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