puppet master | #TranslateHate
puppet master
noun \ ˈpə-pət ˈma-stər \
: someone who controls a marionette puppet by pulling its strings
WHEN IT’S ANTISEMITIC:
Myths of control portray Jews as secret puppet masters, ruling over others and manipulating the world’s economies and governments. For centuries, Jews were blamed for controlling world events behind the scenes, leading “blind” leaders into wars and debt to enrich themselves and further their own hidden agenda (see Protocols of the Elders of Zion, greed). The Great Replacement theory posits that Jews are the masterminds behind efforts to destabilize the white race (see Great Replacement).
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family.
The imagery of Jewish leaders pulling the strings of politicians was featured in Nazi propaganda, and is still used in political cartoons depicting contemporary Jewish or Israeli figures as pulling the strings of domestic and foreign political and military leaders.
Antisemitic propaganda continues to spread the idea that rich or influential Jews are behind the scenes conspiring to further their plans of world domination.
