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Behind the Aegis

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Mon Jun 16, 2025, 12:29 AM 23 hrs ago

(JEWISH GROUP) New leader in RFK Jr.'s MAHA movement is really into the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The MAHA Institute — a rebrand of the super PAC that was supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign — launched in May, alongside a splashy MAHA (“make America healthy again”) report from the Trump administration that cited numerous studies that turned out not to exist.

While RFK Jr. is not directly involved with the MAHA Institute, its leaders are in the health secretary’s inner circle, privy to policies before they are publicly announced. Now, it has named its executive director: Leland Lehrman, an unsuccessful U.S. Senate candidate from New Mexico. And, according to a new report from the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, which researches extremism, Lehrman is also a prolific antisemite.

Conspiracy theories are common among RFK Jr.’s followers; vaccine skepticism is the norm in the MAHA world, along with false “plandemic” theories that the coronavirus pandemic was part of a plan. But adherents differ on who they blame for the supposed planning of the pandemic. Lehrman, however, who also subscribes to all of the COVID-19 conspiracies, seems to have a clear answer of who to blame: Jews.

Lehrman actually has Jewish heritage: His father, an investment banker and the grandson of the founder of Rite Aid, came from a Jewish family, though he converted to Catholicism. But that has not kept the newly appointed MAHA leader from espousing antisemitic conspiracy theories of all kinds, including repeatedly speaking and blogging about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a long-since debunked 1903 antisemitic pamphlet purporting to detail the notes of a cabal of Jews plotting their global takeover.

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With that last paragraph in the excerpt, keep that in mind when you hear people drone on about how they have "Jewish blood".

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(JEWISH GROUP) New leader in RFK Jr.'s MAHA movement is really into the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Original Post) Behind the Aegis 23 hrs ago OP
There seems to be never ending opportunities for self-loathing Jews to find their place in the world. madaboutharry 17 hrs ago #1

madaboutharry

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1. There seems to be never ending opportunities for self-loathing Jews to find their place in the world.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 06:14 AM
17 hrs ago

Shandas, every last one of them.

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