The sinking of the Titanic, and other Zionist plots
ANTISEMITIC CONSPIRACY theories are ten-a-penny, but one Russian TV documentary has taken the phenomenon to a new extreme.
Jews were not only behind the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl and the terrorist attacks in the US on 11 September 2001, but also the sinking of the Titanic, according to a short film broadcast recently on REN TV.
The documentary is an updated version of an earlier version shown in 2012, in which it was alleged that a group of “300 Jews, illuminati and freemasons” plotted the destruction of the British ship in order to cause an international crisis and take over the world.
The more recent film extends the conspiracy to Chernobyl, the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and 9/11, stating that the “Arab terrorists were unjustly blamed for the attacks”.
Commentators said the documentary was an attempt to revive the popularity of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a 19th-century antisemitic forgery created by the Tsar’s secret service to whip up antisemitism in Russia.
REN TV is a private network with a potential audience of more than 100 million. In 2015, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science described the channel’s documentaries as “the most harmful pseudoscientific project (for spreading of myths, delusions and superstitions)”.