The Epstein Chaos Has Begun: Why Netanyahu Is Sharing Leftist Conspiracy Theories About a Mossad Sex Cabal
Source: Haaretz
Haaretz Today The Epstein Chaos Has Begun: Why Netanyahu Is Sharing Leftist Conspiracy Theories About a Mossad Sex Cabal
It is not every day that a right-wing populist world leader reposts an article by Jacobin magazine, the small New York-based socialist publication. But on November 21, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did just that, sharing on X an article titled "Jeffrey Epstein Claimed to Have Meddled in Israel's Elections."
Netanyahu, or whoever runs his account, appears not to have actually read the article, which denounces his "increasingly extreme and corruption-embroiled rule." In it, there is mainly intimation and innuendo, rather than concrete fact, that Epstein played an active role in the 2019 Israeli election campaign. It also seems unlikely that Netanyahu knew of Jacobin or its ideological orientation. Otherwise, it is hard to imagine why Israel's arch-neoliberal would have shared an article from the house organ of the American millennial left. (Disclosure: I contributed to Jacobin in the past.)
But perhaps it should not be so surprising after all. At a time when widespread illiteracy is the norm, the headline is what matters most – something that Netanyahu, an expert in the political dark arts, surely knows. Dirt on the opposition is valuable, no matter the source.
There is also something emblematic about Netanyahu's seeming endorsement of an article from an outlet that has called for him to be tried and found guilty of war crimes in The Hague. Since Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in July 2019 on the charge of sex trafficking minors, the growing scope of the scandal, implicating figures across the uppermost echelons of the Western elite, has fueled conspiracies that at times bridge the populist right and left. Netanyahu is far from the only right-wing politician to have found a strange ally of sorts in those on the left who see Epstein as a metaphor for the rapacious corruption and spectacular immorality of the global capitalist elite.
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