Conspiracy theory faults Jews for Lehman Brothers' collapse

That's a lot of shekels.

A new anti-Semitic conspiracy theory has been spreading online over the last few days, claiming that on the eve of Lehman Brothers' collapse last month, the firm transferred $400 billion to Israel. The theory, which comes in the form of a news report, has already been distributed on dozens of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli sites. It alleges that senior Jewish officials at the Lehman Brothers investment bank passed their clients' money on to three Israeli banks, with the intention of then escaping to Israel to enjoy the take without fear of extradition
Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which was founded in the United States by Jewish immigrants from Germany in 1850, Web forums and comment pages have been flooded with anti-Semitic comments accusing Jews of causing the global economic crisis and branding them the greatest beneficiaries of the disaster. Such statements are especially common on clearly racist sites, but can also be found on more popular mainstream sites.
The Anti-Defamation League in the U.S. and other international bodies monitoring anti-Semitism have documented hundreds of such cases in the past two weeks. ...

Lehman Bros Conspiracy Theory - Complete Report

reply to post by coolieno99


Another load of total honk from Rense then. What a surprise. Oh wait, not.

the guy who denied lehman bail out money was a former goldman guy

that's the conspiracy

since it's true, it's boring and will be ignored here

reply to post by syrinx high priest


And he soon regretted it. I think that Paulson has been adequately punished though - he had to explain to Dubya why the economy was tanking. That must have used up a lot of crayons!