As more Americans awaken to the reality of a shadow government desperately warring to wrest the levers of power from the people, it is necessary to warn against harmful and false theories regarding the nature of the enemy.

Fixation on any particular race, ethnicity, or religion as the crux of the Deep State is a dangerous tangent that, if not corrected, can mislead otherwise productive patriots and discredit legitimate efforts to restore sound governance.

Perhaps now more than at any point in American history, political influencers have highlighted the efforts to destroy our freedoms as simply a “Jewish conspiracy.” They claim that the Jewish people are the key aggressors, infiltrating media, academia, and government to destroy American sovereignty. While a conspiracy to destroy America is afoot, it is not composed of any singular race, ethnicity, or creed. It is a large tent, which uses any group of people to accomplish its goals.

The John Birch Society (JBS) has been the leader of everyday Americans —businessmen, parents, people of faith, and willing patriots — who devote their lives to the great and weighty cause of preserving the American Republic. As such, the duty of the patriot is to speak truth, specifically if that truth is unpopular and seldom heard.

In a 1966 speech/essay titled “The Truth in Time,” JBS founder Robert Welch addressed the fixation on Jews as the supposed root of the conspiracy:

The Communists … have dupes and agents clamoring incessantly that the Society is anti-Semitic; and at the very same time, they have agents provocateurs everywhere trying to persuade members of the Society that the whole communist movement is simply a Jewish conspiracy, and that these members are wasting their time in The John Birch Society because its leaders do not have the courage to name the enemy. And by this typical communist method, they have made anti-Semitism into one of the most powerful weapons in their whole arsenal of destruction.

Welch’s warning against “agents provocateurs” seeking to convince patriots that the evildoers are simply all Jewish is more important now than ever. This is not to imply that those who spread such falsehoods are all nefarious actors; they can be simply misled, but the necessity of correction remains.

“The Truth in Time” also addressed the Communist’s divide-and-conquer strategy as a tool to control both sides of narratives and take advantage of disunity in the fight for freedom. As Welch noted,

The INSIDERS learned to foment, nourish, magnify, and utilize every natural division among men, whether based on race, color, language, or religion; to create strife ranging from a precinct political feud to a major war between nations; to stimulate and control both sides of all such bitter division among mankind; and to profit enormously from the opportunities thus offered them to grasp more power amid the resulting chaos, resignation, and despair.

On October 8, 1965, the JBS Bulletin addressed the Communist’s tactic of division and duping patriots to fixate on race, nationality, or religion as an “incredibly evil accomplishment”:

These results, so carefully planned and so much desired by the Communists, shake down to one simple but incredibly evil accomplishment: A tendency of Gentiles to condemn all Jews, instead of just that very small percentage who are contaminated by Communism; and a tendency of Jews to distrust the good will of all Gentiles, instead of only that very small percentage who are promoting anti-Semitism. It is a basic tenet of The John Birch Society to judge and treat all men as individuals, rather than as members of any race, creed, nationality, or collective group. (The only exception is the Communists, who have deliberately converted their individual selves into soul-less units of an unhuman machine.) So it is utterly impossible for anybody to make us anti-Semitic … or anti any except the Communists, no matter how hard they try or how unfair their attempts.

In fact, the 1965 Bulletin pointed out that individuals who claim religious or ethnic loyalty but become Communists have nullified their prior identification, and are simply Communists:

Let us remind you here once again that when a Catholic or a Protestant or a Jew, or a Frenchman or an Egyptian or an American, becomes a full-fledged Communist, he is no longer any of these things. His former racial loyalty, if any, and his religious loyalty, if any, are completely erased. He may now pretend to be a better Catholic or Protestant or Jew, or a more patriotic Frenchman or Egyptian or American, if it serves his Communist purposes. But he is now simply a Communist, nothing else. And it is particularly important to keep this in mind, for an understanding of what has been deliberately done to Jews in general by the Jews who turned Communists, beginning especially with that most vicious “anti-Semite,” Karl Marx.

Gary Allen, a Bircher and the author of the 1976 book None Dare Call It Conspiracy,echoed the JBS’s warnings: “Because of racial or religious bigotry, they will take small fragments of legitimate evidence and expand them into a conclusion that will support their particular prejudice, i.e., the conspiracy is totally ‘Jewish,’ ‘Catholic,’ or ‘Masonic.’ These people do not help to expose the conspiracy, but, sadly, play into the hands of those who want the public to believe that all conspiratorialists are screwballs.”

Robert Welch and Gary Allen rightly call out the Jewish tangent by its true nature: bigotry and antisemitism. The notion that any individual within a community is automatically a suspect in the conspiracy is, by definition, prejudiced.

This should not be confused with naïveté regarding the fact that the globalist conspiracy does contain Jews among its ranks, just as it contains many Gentiles, including those who claim to be Buddhists, atheists, Islamists, and Christians.

These conspirators do not share an ethnic or religious connection; they share a mission: the accumulation of power in order to create a one-world system of government. At its root is not Judaism; it is a satanically inspired rebellion against the biblical mandate for humanity.

The Scriptures explain this in Ephesians 6:12: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

Focusing on a particular prejudice in that struggle distracts from the truth and aids the enemy.

Remember Gary Allen’s take: “These people do not help to expose the conspiracy, but, sadly, play into the hands of those who want the public to believe that all conspiratorialists are screwballs.”

Think of it: If your adversary gives you a fault line, a controversy to divide their ranks against each other, why wouldn’t you leverage it?

During the Covid-19 pandemic, unsubstantiated claims that the virus was a Jewish conspiracy arose among right-wing groups. The United Nations, the beachhead organization being used to build a global government, saw it as an opportunity to discredit anyone who thought Covid was an engineered crisis.

“Propaganda linking Jews with the pandemic, for example, by accusing them of creating the virus as part of a bid for global domination, would be ridiculous, if it were not so dangerous,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “This is just the latest manifestation of an anti-Semitic trope that dates back to at least the fourteenth century, when Jews were accused of spreading the bubonic plague.”

The secretary general’s solution was for governments to come together and take responsibility and action to regulate the internet and print media. They smelled blood in the water and an opportunity to intervene.

In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul writes that “evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.” Evildoers masquerade in all sorts of disguises, and discernment is necessary.

The best way to discern a potential enemy of freedom is by looking at his ideas. The John Birch Society’s motto, “Less government, more responsibility, and — with God’s help — a better world,” is a good place to start. If anyone advocates for the advancement of the enlargement of the state and the loss of personal responsibility, he is not on the side of liberty.

It is useful to swiftly and accurately label false ideas for what they are: unproductive tangents. The JBS booklet Tangents is an invaluable resource to address distractions and redirect energy toward productive outlets to save the Republic.

Tangents, available at shopjbs.org, clarifies that “Anti-Semitism is worse than a tangent — it is a trap from which few escape once they become obsessed with bad feelings toward the Jewish people. Patriotic citizens who develop such an obsession are not welcome in The John Birch Society. They are of no value to the freedom battle.”