...Allegations of anti-Semitism
A number of organizations, publications, and individuals have criticized LaRouche for both overt and "coded" anti-Semitism, including the Encyclopedia Judaica, the Anti-Defamation League, Senator Daniel Moynihan, Democratic National Committee Chair Terry McAuliffe, and writers Mike Royko, Dennis King, Chip Berlet, and Robert L. Bartley. However, LaRouche condemns anti-Semitism in his published writings. He writes, "Religious and racial hatred, such as anti-Semitism, or hatred against Islam, or, hatred of Christians, is, on record of known history, the most evil expression of criminality to be seen on the planet today."[53]
The Jewish Anti-Defamation League quotes LaRouche as saying he believes the "Zionist lobby", "Christian Zionists", and "Jewish gangsters" have "sought to control U.S. policy toward Israel," and believes that the September 11 attacks "could not have happened without the connivance of something inside, very high level, inside the United States military command.".[54]
Dennis King asserts that in order to hide anti-Semitism, LaRouche redefined the meaning of "Jew." According to King, LaRouche thinks that to be a real Jew, "one must repudiate the State of Israel, Zionism, and the mainstream leadership of the Jewish community."[55] King also claims to have found "euphemisms,"[56] "semantic tricks,"[57] and examples of "symbolic scapegoating"[58] in LaRouche's writings that he claims confirm the allegations of conventional anti-Semitism.[59] For example, King claims that LaRouche's published attacks on Henry Kissinger include a disguised form of anti-Semitism. King further says these examples bolster his argument (which also references certain images used in LaRouche publications) that LaRouche is a neofascist whose world view secretly centers on anti-Semitism and includes a "dream of world conquest." King points to a 1978 illustration in New Solidarity of Queen Elizabeth at the top of a Star of David -- and certain headlines (in more recent LaRouche publications) such as "How the Venetian Virus Infected and Took Over England" -- to bolster his argument that LaRouche's attacks on a "British" oligarchy are often coded attacks on international Jewry.[60] [61] King discusses in detail how certain photos of barred spiral galaxies, sometimes identified as Lawrence Livermore Laboratory plasmoid experiments which appeared in LaRouche's New Solidarity newspaper and Fusion magazine, are "reminiscent of the swastika," and King engages in a lengthy iscussion on neonazi mystification of the image of the swastika and how it relates to the Nazi "theory of spiraling expansion/conquest."[62]
Author Daniel Pipes, however, does not think Dennis King is correct when, as Pipes claims, King asserts that all "references to the British as the ultimate conspirators are really `code language' to refer to Jews." Pipes argues that sometimes these are just references the British tracing back to conspiracy theories based on secret societies.[63] Pipes, however, also recognizes that LaRouche is an antisemite who "places a British-Jewish alliance at the center of his conspiracism."[64]
Robert L. Bartley, writing in The Wall Street Journal, criticizes the title of a LaRouche-sponsored pamphlet ("Children of Satan") attacking the neoconservatives. He quotes the pamphlet's assertion that a "cabal of [Leo] Strauss disciples, along with an equally small circle of allied neo-conservative and Likudnik fellow-travelers" have plotted a "not-so-silent coup." Noting that "Mr. LaRouche has chosen an Aryan-nation phrase for Jews (descendants of Cain, who was the result of Satan seducing Eve, in this perfervid theology)," Bartley terms the "Children of Satan" title "overt anti-Semitism." He also suggests that the use of the terms "Straussian" and "Neo-conservative" may be coded anti-Semitism when used by LaRouche and other writers.[65]
Chip Berlet suggests that the commentary on Iraq by LaRouche-affiliated publications, which is incorporated into some Arab and Muslim commentaries, represents conspiracism and anti-Semitism, especially through the use of what Berlet describes as "stereotyped descriptions of the neoconservative network and their power."[66] To prevent the catastrophe that will result from following neoconservative policies, LaRouche advocates preparation for total war with Great Britain."[67] Berlet also contributed to a segment in the Encyclopedia Judaica which states that LaRouche is a "notorious antisemite," and among those who use "conspiracy allegations moved into more mainstream circles through bridging mechanisms" in a way that often masks the "original overtly anti-Jewish claims by using coded rhetoric" and thus is a "major source of such masked antisemitic theories globally."[68]
Former LaRouche follower Linda Ray, writing in In These Times, has also commented on euphemistic LaRouchian methods of communicating. She recalls reading in New Solidarity about a subhuman oligarchical species centered in London: "Although I knew it did not make scientific sense, I presumed that it was a deep intellectual metaphor that was over my head." She says that years later, when she was shown the Star of David picture with Queen Elizabeth at the top, "I quickly replied...'It is just a graphics art symbol'--which I naively thought for years. But as soon as I said it out loud I realized that I sounded ridiculous. It was as if I was waking from a nightmare."[69]...
