Dutch journalist: Flu pandemics are Jewish conspiracy

[Behind the Aegis]

Source: Ha'aretz

A journalist from Holland who linked Jews to the recent outbreak of flu pandemics drew heavy criticism from a prominent Dutch Jewish organization earlier this week, that claimed her words were tantamount to anti-Semitic blood libels.

Holland's largest daily, De Telegraf last week printed an interview with Désirée Röver, 61, who proposed the bird flu pandemic, caused by the virus H5N1, was part of an international conspiracy to reduce the world's population.

Röver is quoted as saying the conspiracy can be traced back to a group of descendants of the Khazars, a nation from the Caucasus believed to have converted to Judaism 1,200 years ago.

De Telegraaf quotes her as saying that these descendants are now "praying to another god; Lucifer, Satan, or however you want to call him" and "are called Rockefeller, Rothschild, Brezinski and Kissinger."

Ronny Naftaniel, who heads the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI) - an local anti-Semitism watchdog - said that this is the first time he has heard such claims from Rover, and added that based on her words, "she does not seem to be right in her head."


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The old becomes new.

[YOY]

1. I knew it!

Y'all are hiding flu sprayers under them yarmulkes!

[villager]

2. Those fun-loving Europeans did this in the Middle Ages, too

...with the Plague.

Kind of a template for today's Republican politics, really: "Find an 'Other,'..."

[MidwestTransplant]

5. So they have been doing it since the middle ages. I knew it.

[aquart]

18. Yes, that was when they burned Jews alive in their houses.

For causing the Plague, you know.

[trumad]

3. I knew it...

I was in a Jewish Deli the other day and when I walked out...I sneezed.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Perhaps the teabaggers would like to bring this lady here

They have a few meetings they'd like her to disrupt. Perhaps she could come up with some conspiracy theory regarding health care reform, like they need another one.

[madrchsod]

9. you know those emanuel boys are JEWS!

she`s be right at home with the birthers,klan,and those who believe in "The Octopus"

[gauguin57]

26. Maybe Desiree can go on tour with Joe the Plumber and that dumb beauty queen.

And Sarah Palin.

Desiree's rantings are scary but completely ignorable.

However, I do agree that Henry Kissinger probably worships Satan ... because that means he's LOOKING IN THE MIRROR.

[WriteDown]

6. When will the Zionists stop this madness? nt

[leftynyc]

25. What are you talking about? (n/t)

[WriteDown]

28. Sorry...

Thought the sarcasm was blatant enough.

[corpseratemedia]

7. just about 1/2 of me is in on it

the other 1/2 needs a shot

[sasquatch]

11. Does that mean you're a double agent

[madrchsod]

8. this woman is fucking crazy....

http://informationfarm.blogspot.com/2009/08/desiree-rov...

http://gezondheid.active24blog.com/23004/

[mbperrin]

10. What a relief! I was afraid it was an Arab terrorist plot!

Whew!

[Libertas1776]

12. "...Part of an international (Jewish) conspiracy to reduce the world's

population. These people are so fucking laughable. Nice to see that that old Europe mentality is still alive and well

I'll tell you what the Flu Pandemic is: It's a natural "conspiracy" concocted by mother nature to reduce the world's population as it has done for eons, whenever the population grows too large, as frightening as that may sound. Like it or not, we can't fuck with mother nature. Hopefully, this time around, she will focus on thinning out the numbers of imbeciles like Désirée Röver and the like, while leaving enough shots for the rest of the population who isn't bat shit crazy.

[Jeroen]

13. Theezakje

That's Dutch for teabag

[Betsy Ross]

14. We sure don't have a monopoly on wingnuts. n/t

[Ian David]

15. That's stupid. Would have made more sense to blame Israel for killing all the bumble bees.

At least, the bee disease seems to have originated in Israel. If one were a bigoted asshole, THAT would be the new blood libel to pick.

Unless there are a lot of Jewish-Mexican or Jewish-Chinese pig farmers we don't know about.

[KamaAina]

16. The "swine flu" is a Jewish conspiracy?!

[TZ]

22. Well you know

We don't eat pork so that means we can't get it...

[Dr. Strange]

27. It all becomes clear.

I'll have to update my conspiracy charts now.

[jmm]

17. Did the CIA steal all the good epidemic ideas already?

Swine flue was the best conspiracy they could come up with?

[sakabatou]

19. *face-bludgeon*

[LeftishBrit]

20. Disgusting lunatic...

but I'm not that surprised. There seems to be a lot of overlap between the health-conspiracy-theorists (she's also full of conspiracy theories about vaccines) and the extreme right, a lot of whom are antisemitic of course. And I suppose you get these people everywhere.

ETA: one of the biggest dangers is that people, who for one reason or another are suspicious of vaccines/modern medicine, go to the medical conspiracy sites - and sometimes get exposed to RW and xenophobic nuttery as well.

[TZ]

21. It must be TWOO...

I'm Jewish and I work for someone who does influenza research. Where's my check?!
Between causing all the wars in the world and working on killing everyone off, I'm exhausted.......

[BlueIris]

23. INSANE. The old becomes new, indeed.

This news hurts me.

[truthisfreedom]

24. "She does not seem to be right in her head." pretty much nails it.

[BreweryYardRat]

29. Damn loons.

Sheesh.

[proteus_lives]

30. What a disgusting Nazi bitch.

She deserves a boot to the ass.

[robcon]

31. Those fun-loving Arabs make the same charges.

Plus ca change....

[damntexdem]

32. How very ironic when the claim is about swine flu.

But racists are never strong on consistency.

[Ohio Joe]

33. "The old becomes new." I don't know about that...

In the sense that anti-Semitic talk is once again very out in the open... Yes, I agree. I do not think it ever really went away though, it just became much less "OK" to be so brazen about it. I find myself more and more disturbed about it all the time and to be honest... I have no idea what to do about it.

[Lagomorph]

34. There's something much worse than the flu going around...

...and she's got it.

[mamaleah]

35. How many times have we asked Sol to keep his mouth shut after our World Zionist Takeover meetings?

I mean he ate all the egg salad, fell asleep during the minutes, and then goes blabbing our plans to some Dutch journalist.

I am proud to be part of a tiny group of people so many think has so much power. If these blood libel morons and anti-Semites had half a brain they would figure out if we really did have that much power they wouldn't be able to write shit like that.

[The Second Stone]

36. Jews don't get the flu you know

They have Jewish mamas distributing that secret chicken soup recipe. Great for the Jews, not so good for the chickens.

[Nihil]

37. On the contrary, they are working hard against it ...

> A group of rabbis and Jewish mystics have taken to the skies over Israel,
> praying and blowing ceremonial horns in a plane to ward off swine flu.
>
> About 50 religious leaders circled over the country on Monday, chanting
> prayers and blowing horns, called shofars.
>
> The flight's aim was "to stop the pandemic so people will stop dying from it",
> Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri was quoted as saying in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8196786.st...

[question everything]

38. Nothing new under the sun

When there are fears of an epidemic or a famine or a depression - blame the Jews.

[Ken Burch]

39. Desiree Rover is an antisemitic idiot

and that's ALL that this story means.