Piccolo Tigre: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 102-106
Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are the laziest conspiracy theories. Obviously, they are immoral theories seeking to demonize an entire group of people. I just want to add this additional pejorative to it. Webster, in her discussion of the Italian revolutionaries (secretly on the payroll of the Illuminati) adds this, “ but it was not in the band of dissolute young Italians he gathered around him, but in his Jewish allies, that Nubius found his principal support.” When she writes “Jewish allies” we should hear a “dun dun duuuuun,” in our heads. The reader of this book doesn’t need more explanation, just mentioning the word “Jewish” is enough for her intended audience to think, “of course.” Yet, let’s re-examine what she’s claiming. Her target here is the Carbonari, the Italian group that would fight for a unified Italy. Apparently, this is a goal that the Jewish underground also wants. Her source for this allegation comes from a Joseph de Maistre, a counter-enlightenment thinker a...