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Author: Lev Madorskyi, Channel 9 Israel
The worldwide Jewish-Masonic conspiracy… Well, everything is clear to the Jews. These are the Jews. It is also clear that if there is no water in the tap, it means, as Zheglov said in the film “The meeting place cannot be changed,” it means that the Freemasons have drunk. No one else. This, I repeat, is clear. But what kind of strange beasts are these freemasons?
Where did they come from on our head? Who are they, in the grand scheme of things, Jews or Freemasons? I first became interested in freemasons when, in the late 80s, immediately after the start of Perestroika, I was at the “Remembrance” rally in Moscow. There, I heard for the first time about the Jewish Freemasons – mysterious creatures who, according to the speakers, entangled the whole world in a web and reached Russia.
“Jewish-Masons have conquered the governments of many countries,” shouted speakers in black shirts. In the newspaper “Zavtra”, which I have kept since those times, I read again about the worldwide Jewish-Masonic conspiracy. I got interested and learned a lot of interesting things.
Masons, it turns out, are members of a secret religious society, which is not entirely clear how it was formed from the medieval guild associations of builders. In modern terms, from the construction workers’ union. In the 17th and 18th centuries, representatives of the aristocracy, the clergy, and the cultural elite became freemasons. Jews, that is, there were practically no Jews there then.
The connection with Judaism was affected only by the fact that “free masons” cultivated symbolic signs and rituals that went back to the construction of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. The main centers of freemasons were located in England, France, Germany and other countries of Western Europe. All freemasons considered themselves members of a single brotherhood, provided each other with support and hospitality. For the first time, an organization emerged where national and religious affiliation did not matter.
Although Jews were not at the origins of Freemasonry, the door to this organization was open to them. In the lists of members of Masonic lodges in England and other countries already at the beginning of the 18th century, Jewish names are found. In 1793, a new Jewish lodge was even created in England – the Lodge of Israel. In Germany, only particularly outstanding representatives of Jewry became freemasons, for example, the publicist Ludwig Börne and the historian Isaac Jost. In England – financier Moses Montefiore. In France, statesman Isaac Cremieux.
The revolution of 1848 opened the doors of Masonic lodges wider for Jews. The exceptions were Prussia and Russia, where anti-Semitism was particularly strong. In Russia, the brotherhood of “free masons” became a purely Christian union. But in America the situation was different. Here the Jews really stood near the origins of Freemasonry. The first lodge in the New World was founded in 1658 in Newport by the Jew Mordechai Kempenall.
And now we have come to the Jewish-Masonic conspiracy. The cute idea of blaming everything on the Jews did not arise in the 80s of the 20th century, but much earlier — in the 60s of the 19th century in Germany. Tied to the fake “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, it rolled around the world, fueling anti-Semitic sentiments and exploding in various countries with the Dreyfus cases and Pogroms. During the Second World War, the Nazis persecuted the “free masons” along with the Jews.
A few years ago, I was walking around Jerusalem with an Israeli friend. He pointed to a small white stone building with no sign: “This is the Israeli Masonic Lodge,” he said. It turned out that there are about 5-6 thousand Freemasons in Israel, among whom there are not only Jews, but also Christians, Muslims and Druze.
Today, the Masonic fraternity is shrouded in secrecy, their addresses cannot be found in the telephone directory, their leaders do not give interviews, and their rituals remain a mystery. But this, of course, does not mean that “free masons” are weaving the threads of a worldwide conspiracy. Today it is more of a tradition, a game. Adults also like to play, especially in mysterious societies and conspiracies.
So, Freemasons are just a convenient myth, on which you can blame all the troubles. And in reality, it’s just a slightly different “trade union” story, surrounded by a halo of mystery and mysticism. But if there’s no water in the faucet again, you know who to blame!
