Conspiracy U by Scott Shay Reviewed by Jonathan Allin Shay’s “Conspiracy U” focuses on the widespread belief in Zionist Conspiracy Theories, and how they have become presumed fact in his own University, Northwestern. He examines two Northwestern professors: both are acknowledged scholars, both believe there is a global Zionist conspiracy, both are pro-Iran. Steven Thrasher is left wing and anti-white, a professor of journalism. His subject is gender studies, LGBTQ+ in the USA, and his articles have made major contributions in public health, for example AIDS amongst people of colour. Thrasher is a Holocaust minimiser. In his view Zionists are “hyper-whites” who are strengthening white power and are oppressors of people of colour who are the ultimate victims of Zionist Conspiracy Theories. Thrasher supports Iran, despite its murder of tens of thousands of gay men, and still supported Isis in 2015. He invents atrocities to buttress his beliefs: he has accused Israel “of using drones to gas Gazans” which makes the reader think of Zyklon B, mustard gas, Holocaust, Saddam Hussein, Bashar al-Assad. The truth is that the drones were delivering tear gas to stop Gazan militants from crossing the 1967 border to kill Israelis. Thrasher is not mainstream, but his role model, Angela Davis, is. Page 32
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