Comments on: Those Lehman Brothers Accounts http://blog.z-word.com/2009/05/1291/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Wed, 23 May 2012 08:49:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Jacob http://blog.z-word.com/2009/05/1291/#comment-5204 Jacob Wed, 27 May 2009 17:39:34 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1291#comment-5204 "Now, a popular conspiracy theory circulating online claims that Jews transferred $400 billion out of Lehman Brothers to untraceable bank accounts in Israel, a couple of days before Lehman filed for bankruptcy." This is in line with other antisemitic theories du jour such as the claim that 4,000 Jews were told not to go to work on 9/11. http://www.snopes.com/rumors/israel.asp The point of these antisemitic claims is to formulate them in such a way that it would be impossible to disprove. The fact that they can't be disproved is what gives them a pseudo credibility. “Now, a popular conspiracy theory circulating online claims that Jews transferred $400 billion out of Lehman Brothers to untraceable bank accounts in Israel, a couple of days before Lehman filed for bankruptcy.”

This is in line with other antisemitic theories du jour such as the claim that 4,000 Jews were told not to go to work on 9/11.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/israel.asp

The point of these antisemitic claims is to formulate them in such a way that it would be impossible to disprove.

The fact that they can’t be disproved is what gives them a pseudo credibility.

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