"Wherever you find a group that is railing against capitalism, it won't be long before you attract types who want to blame Jews". (Source) H/t Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
For centuries, financial and economic crisis have led to a marked increase in anti-semitism in the west. This is certainly true today. In this talk, Dr. Brook discussed discuss the history of anti-semitism's connection with anti-capitalism. Dr. Yaron Brook is the executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government and a contributing author to both Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea and Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism. He is a frequent guest on national radio and television programs and has been a columnist at Forbes.com. A former finance professor, he speaks internationally on such topics as the causes of the financial crisis, the morality of capitalism, ending the growth of the state, and US foreign policy.
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