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===== Claim (20:20): According to state department documents, a group of jews, including Jacob Schiff, Felix Warburg, '''Otto [Hermann] Kahn, Mortimer L. Schiff, Issac Zeelman, already planned the overthrow of the russian tsar in 1916. They decided that Russia should be destroyed, and a communist slave regime should be implemented''' ===== | ===== Claim (20:20): According to state department documents, a group of jews, including Jacob Schiff, Felix Warburg, '''Otto [Hermann] Kahn, Mortimer L. Schiff, Issac Zeelman, already planned the overthrow of the russian tsar in 1916. They decided that Russia should be destroyed, and a communist slave regime should be implemented''' ===== | ||
This claim has it's origins in a report titled ''"Bolshevism and Judaism"'' dated November | This claim has it's origins in a report titled ''"Bolshevism and Judaism"'' dated November 30, 1918. The report details the belief that the planning for the Bolshevik Revolution first began in February 1916, with the help of four prominent jewish bankers. The author is identified only as a "Top Secret Informant", and a sum total of zero sources are cited.<ref>“Bolshevism and Judaism,” November 30, 1918, 10110-920 | ||
National Archives</ref> Nonetheless, copies and imitations of the original source began to pop up in newspapers. | |||
We can however note that, of course, all Jews were hostile to the Russian Empire, Schiff had previously funded the japanese war effort against it. But, as expected of bankers, Schiff was also hostile toward socialism. More on that later. So to be clear, it's '''one''' document, unnamed author with unsourced claims, and it aroused no further investigation from state organs. It does not prove that "they decided a communist regime should be implemented" '''Verdict: F'''alse | |||
===== Claim (20:51): [Communism was] funded by jewish bankers... and manifested by jewish bolsheviks: Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky, Kaganovich, Yagoda. ===== | ===== Claim (20:51): [Communism was] funded by jewish bankers... and manifested by jewish bolsheviks: Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky, Kaganovich, Yagoda. ===== | ||
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===== Claim (21:50): the Bolsheviks forced the Tsar to abdicate ===== | ===== Claim (21:50): the Bolsheviks forced the Tsar to abdicate ===== | ||
The Tsar abdicated in March, the bolsheviks had no state power to speak off up until the October revolution. '''Verdict:''' False | The Tsar abdicated in March, the bolsheviks had no state power to speak off up until the October revolution. Maybe the director thought this extremely basic fact could just be ignored in favour of a metanarrative. '''Verdict:''' False | ||
===== '''Claim (22:00):''' 1. Kerensky was given a million dollars from the wall street banker Jacob Schiff... 2. to free all political prisoners and permit exiles to return to Russia ===== | ===== '''Claim (22:00):''' 1. Kerensky was given a million dollars from the wall street banker Jacob Schiff... 2. to free all political prisoners and permit exiles to return to Russia ===== | ||
The Kerensky government ordered an immediate amnesty for all political and religious prisoners, along with other reforms such as freedom of press. There is, however, nothing linking this specific policy to any demand or wish by Schiff. Schiff wanted the persecution of Jews to stop, but that is a religious - not a political - prisoner. Furthermore, the dictator Kerensky soon started '''cracking down''' on the bolsheviks. For their anti-war stance they were charged with treason by the Ministry of Justice, hundreds were arrested.<ref>Buttar, Prit (2017). ''Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17''.</ref> How does that fit into the narrative? '''Verdict: 1.''' True '''2.''' False | Schiff floated loans worth at least a million dollars to Kerensky. The Kerensky government ordered an immediate amnesty for all political and religious prisoners, along with other reforms such as freedom of press. There is, however, nothing linking this specific policy to any demand or wish by Schiff. Schiff wanted the persecution of Jews to stop, but that is a religious - not a political - prisoner. Furthermore, the dictator Kerensky soon started '''cracking down''' on the bolsheviks. For their anti-war stance they were charged with treason by the Ministry of Justice, hundreds were arrested.<ref>Buttar, Prit (2017). ''Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17''.</ref> Schiff, however, was in favour of the continued war effort against germany. How does that fit into the narrative? '''Verdict: 1.''' True '''2.''' False | ||
===== Claim (22:17): Jacob Schiff was chairman of the Kuhn Loeb bank, and assistant of the Rothschilds ===== | ===== Claim (22:17): Jacob Schiff was chairman of the Kuhn Loeb bank, and assistant of the Rothschilds ===== | ||
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January 20, 1918 | January 20, 1918 | ||
https://www.nytimes.com/1918/01/20/archives/what-trotzky-did-when-in-new-york-investigation-for-department-of.html</ref> "I have been unable to establish a single 'indication' that Trotsky received money from any German donor," Baker concluded. | https://www.nytimes.com/1918/01/20/archives/what-trotzky-did-when-in-new-york-investigation-for-department-of.html</ref> "I have been unable to establish a single 'indication' that Trotsky received money from any German donor," Baker concluded. To add to this, Trotsky was also searched by Canadian border guards when he boarded the ship to Europe at Halifax, and they did not find any money significant enough to report. Simple reason allows us to dismiss this claim right now, but we can go further. At the time when Trotsky was planning his leave to Russia (March 1917), Schiff was on the other side of the country, in White Sulfur Springs of West Virginia.<ref>''New York Times,'' March 18, 1917</ref> | ||
Anthony Sutton, who was himself adament to "JQ" the bolshevik revolution, could not find supporting evidence of Jacob Schiff funding the bolsheviks: "[U.S. State Department files] ''confirm that the investment banker Jacob Schiff, often cited as a source of funds for the Bolshevik Revolution, was in fact against support of the Bolshevik régime''.”<ref>Sutton, “Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution.” p 33. | Anthony Sutton, who was himself adament to "JQ" the bolshevik revolution, could not find supporting evidence of Jacob Schiff funding the bolsheviks: "[U.S. State Department files] ''confirm that the investment banker Jacob Schiff, often cited as a source of funds for the Bolshevik Revolution, was in fact against support of the Bolshevik régime''.”<ref>Sutton, “Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution.” p 33. | ||
Retrieved from: https://www.schiffnaturepreserve.org/JacobSchiffEssay.pdf</ref> | Retrieved from: https://www.schiffnaturepreserve.org/JacobSchiffEssay.pdf</ref> Schiff's anti-bolshevism is also noted in the book: ''"Jacob H. Schiff A Study in American Jewish Leadership"'' by W. Cohen, chapter 7. After the bolsheviks took power, Schiff demanded that the money intended for Kerensky be sent back. | ||
===== On the nature of Jacob Schiffs relationship to the Russian revolutions: ===== | ===== On the nature of Jacob Schiffs relationship to the Russian revolutions: ===== | ||
"Schiff's gripe against Russia had been its anti-Semitism. At home Schiff had never shown any sympathy for socialism, not even the milder Morris Hillquit variety. Schiff had declared victory for his purposes in Russia after the tsar was toppled in March 1917 and Alexander Kerensky, representing the new provisional government, had declared Jews to be equal citizens. In addition to repeated public statements of support, he used both his personal wealth and the resources of Kuhn Loeb to float large loans to Kerensky's regime. When Lenin and Trotsky seized power for themselves in November 1917, '''Schiff''' immediately rejected them, cut off further loans, '''started funding anti-Bolshevist groups''', and even demanded that the Bolsheviks pay back some of the money he'd loaned Kerensky. Schiff also joined a British-backed effort to appeal to fellow Jews in Russia to continue the fight against Germany."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/chinese/trotsky/trotsky-in-new-york-1917/27.htm</ref> | "Schiff's gripe against Russia had been its anti-Semitism. At home Schiff had never shown any sympathy for socialism, not even the milder Morris Hillquit variety. Schiff had declared victory for his purposes in Russia after the tsar was toppled in March 1917 and Alexander Kerensky, representing the new provisional government, had declared Jews to be equal citizens. In addition to repeated public statements of support, he used both his personal wealth and the resources of Kuhn Loeb to float large loans to Kerensky's regime. When Lenin and Trotsky seized power for themselves in November 1917, '''Schiff''' immediately rejected them, cut off further loans, '''started funding anti-Bolshevist groups''', and even demanded that the Bolsheviks pay back some of the money he'd loaned Kerensky. Schiff also joined a British-backed effort to appeal to fellow Jews in Russia to continue the fight against Germany." - Ackerman, Kenneth (2016). Trotsky in New York, 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution.<ref>https://www.marxists.org/chinese/trotsky/trotsky-in-new-york-1917/27.htm</ref> | ||
Jacob Schiff is often invoked in judeobolshevik conspiracy theories, with intentional lying employed about sources meant to support the claims. For example in: In "''Men who are making America''", page 335, it reads that Schiff once donated $100 000 to a set up a war relief hospital in Russia,<ref>https://archive.org/details/menwhoaremaking00forbgoog/page/n425/mode/2up</ref> in summer of 1917 before the October revolution had occured. Gary Allen cited the same page in his book "''None Dare Call it Conspiracy"'' and used it to support the claim that Schiff gave a donation of $10 million to the bolsheviks.<ref>https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=allen&book=none&story=bankroll#:~:text=later%20married%20Trotsky.%22-,Schiff,-spent%20millions%20to<nowiki/>The claim: | Jacob Schiff is often invoked in judeobolshevik conspiracy theories, with intentional lying employed about sources meant to support the claims. For example in: In "''Men who are making America''", page 335, it reads that Schiff once donated $100 000 to a set up a war relief hospital in Russia,<ref>https://archive.org/details/menwhoaremaking00forbgoog/page/n425/mode/2up</ref> in summer of 1917 before the October revolution had occured. Gary Allen cited the same page in his book "''None Dare Call it Conspiracy"'' and used it to support the claim that Schiff gave a donation of $10 million to the bolsheviks.<ref>https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=allen&book=none&story=bankroll#:~:text=later%20married%20Trotsky.%22-,Schiff,-spent%20millions%20to<nowiki/>The claim: |