Jewish Space Lasers

The strange tale of how one Jewish family —the Rothschilds—became a lightning rod for conspiracy theories over the course of the last 2 centuries.

For more than 200 years, the name "Rothschild" has been synonymous with two things: great wealth, and conspiracy theories about what they're "really doing" with it.

Almost from the moment Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his sons emerged from the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt to revolutionize the banking world, the Rothschild family has been the target of myths, hoaxes, bizarre accusations, and constant antisemitism. They've been blamed for the sinking of the Titanic, funding Hitler's war machine, creating the COVID-19 pandemic, and causing the Great Depression. They've been accused of funding both sides of every war since the American Revolution, of controlling almost every central bank, and most recently, of using their secret technology to unleash snow storms and forest fires. To their detractors, the Rothschids are simply everywhere, pulling the strings of history to deepen their financial control over the entire world.

Jewish Space Lasers is a deeply researched dive into the history of the conspiracy industry around the Rothschild family - from the "pamphlet wars" of Paris in the 1840s to the cinemas of the Third Reich a hundred years later, and to Broadway, rap industry gossip rags, extremist compounds, and the dankest pits of the internet today. The poetry of Ezra Pound, the sermons of Father Coughlin, the films of Alex Jones, and some of the bestselling books of the 20th century - countless characters have exploited the Rothschild conspiracy for their own ends - and are still doing so.

Author Mike Rothschild – who isn't related to the family - sorts out myth from reality to find the truth about these conspiracy theories and their spreaders. Who were the Rothschilds? Who are they today? What role do they actually play in European history and politics? Is any of this actually true? And why, even as their wealth and influence have waned, do they continue to drive conspiracies and hoaxes?