Jew Watch is a website that claims to "report accurate information regarding Jewish ownership and control over mass media and politics," and which describes its objective as "Keeping a Close Watch on Jewish Communities & Organizations Worldwide." The website asserts that "Jew Watch is a Not-For-Profit Library for private study, scholarship, or research." Although the maintainers of the site insist that it is not a hate site, it is, in fact, an anti-Semitic[1] website of the purest style. It has received much criticism from a wide range of organizations and individuals.
The site achieved notoriety in April 2004 when it emerged as the first result in a Google search for the word Jew.
Overview
Jew Watch features an archive of opinion, writings, articles and links, organized in the form of a Web directory. Although claiming neutrality, its material is organized under topic heads such as
- "Jewish-Zionist-Soviet Anti-American Spies,"
- "Jewish Communist Rulers & Killers,"
- "Jewish Terrorists,"
- "Jewish Controlled Press,"
- "Jewish Entertainment,"
- "Zionist Occupied Governments,"
- "Jewish Communists,"
- "Jewish Atrocities,"
- "Jewish Mind Control Mechanisms,"
- "Jewish Banking & Financial Manipulations,"
- "Jewish World Conspiracies" and many others.
Jew Watch claims that the United States is ruled by a Zionist-Occupied Government, that Communism was invented by Jews and was a Jewish plot to enslave the world, that Jews control the world finance system and the media. It also claims that the "All Anti-Christian Jewish Red Commisars" killed 100 million Christians in Russia from 1917-1945 under the orders of "Trotsky, the Jewish Commissar of Commissars". The site links to others which speculate that Jews have committed or are planning genocide against Christians and against the Palestinian people, and that the Holocaust of World War II either never happened or was greatly exaggerated (Holocaust Denial).
Jew Watch also has a large list of names of celebrities and historical figures which it claims are Jewish or of Jewish descent. For example, it erroneously claims that individuals such as Joseph Stalin, Dwight David Eisenhower, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill were Jewish. The website also condemns Christianity for being a "Jewish Religion".[2]
The site has a number of quotations which are purported to be from the Talmud or Jewish figures; without footnotes or proper citations these are impossible to verify; others are lifted entirely from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a well-known anti-semitic forgery written in the late 19th century.
Jew Watch purports to expose Jewish crimes against humanity. Its stated position is that Jews are responsible for every major war in the last 150 years, that Judaism hates all races of humanity (especially whites), and dominates the world by proxy through the United States. At the same time, it alleges in the documents stored that global Jewry seeks to destroy the United States itself since its power may soon be turned against Jewry. In addition, the website claims that the former Soviet Union, the United States, the former Soviet CIS states, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, and France are "Jewish Occupied Governments."[3]
On World War II, Jew Watch also holds documents that allege that the Holocaust was in fact the rain of fire discussed.[4]
The increasing publicity has resulted in many news sources, weblogs and general information sites to link to Jew Watch. This creates an unintentional (or intentional) Google bomb. In May 2004, Steven Weinstock launched an online petition to remove Jew Watch from Google. "When performing a search for the word 'Jew' on Google, the first Web site listed is Jewwatch.com, a site that has been notorious for being anti-Semitic," Weinstock wrote in a widely disseminated e-mail.
Weinstock said he had contacted Google three times about the site but had not received a response. "In order for Google to remove this, they would need a petition of over 50,000 requests," Weinstock said. He set up an online petition site called RemoveJewWatch.com. Within a few days 2,000 signatures had been added to the list. Google reportedly said that they would not remove Jew Watch from their search engine no matter what petitions were presented. By mid-2004 the site had collected over 125,000 signatures, mostly favorable. The "removejewwatch" site went offline but can now be found at http://www.whynotmedia.com/removejewwatch.html.
Google's response, however, has been a sponsored link for the search term since 2004 which can be found at their site. It explains how Google results are automatically ranked by computer algorithms.
National Vanguard writer Kevin Strom claimed that Weinstock's efforts resulted in a "censor-fest" of Jew Watch and insisted "Our race deserves to live in freedom, and no trickster, thug, or con man can stop us from achieving that goal. We are going to win".[5] John Goth, in the same publication, described his "disgust" as a "loyal White man" at "the recent Jewish attacks on free speech and particularly, on JewWatch.com."[6]
To this day Jew Watch fluctuates between the #1 and #2 positions for the search term “Jew” on the American Google site. (When Jew Watch is #2, the #1 slot is normally held by the Wikipedia article, Jew). On the Canadian Google site, Jew Watch is not displayed as a result at all, since it has been removed by Google due to complaints that the result was "illegal under ... local law."
References
- ^ "CNET: Google caught in Anti-Semitism flap". Retrieved 2006-04-09.
- ^ "Jewish Religions - Christianity". Jew Watch. Retrieved 2006-04-08.
- ^ "Jewish Occupied Governments". Jew Watch. Retrieved 2006-04-08.
- ^ Goldberg, Jonah (2000-08-15). "Proud and true: He's a Jew". Jewish World Review. Retrieved 2006-04-08.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Strom, Kevin (2004-04-24). "The Censorious Race". National Vanguard. Retrieved 2006-04-08.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Goth, John (2004-04-22). "The Jew Watch Saga Can Be Fun". National Vanguard. Retrieved 2006-04-08.
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