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The International-Communist-Judaeo-Masonic Conspiracy, sometimes called the international-marxist-judaeo-masonic conspiracy, or simply the judaeo-masonic conspiracy, is a conspiracy theory involving a secret coalition of Jews, freemasons, and communists. The coalition's dark aim, especially in the view of franquist Spain, would be world domination.

The absence of evidence for such a world-spanning conspiracy is taken as further demonstration of the influence of the conspirators, who are understood to be working to suppress evidence of their activity.

It is possible to trace the existence of antisemitism in Spain to the Middle Ages, since it was a useful mechanism to divert social conflicts using Jews as scapegoats, to whom all kinds of evil plots were attributed, such as starting plagues, kidnapping and ritualistic killing of infants, and the profanation of Christian sacraments, as the case of the Santo Niño de La Guardia; but since the disclosure of the alleged The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, these conspiracy theories were becoming more complex. The fact that Karl Marx was born in a Jewish family, together with the Jewish origin of some prominent communist leaders, made it possible to add worker's movements to the conspiracy, as participants of the same ideology.

Preceding

The existence of anti-Semitism can be traced back to the middle ages, linking societies without a developed capitalist system to a broad group of ideological prejudice, mainly to the contempt of activities that independently function economically, the church defined as usury. The only way to become rich without suspicion was through feudal rent, accessible only to the privilege ones that certainly were much more than the Jews. Instead the Jews would excel on them, since their condition generally impend them to access another type of job (even when the majority of the European Jews were farmers and would perform different manual and intellectual jobs). The manipulation of this prejudice was a good way to deviate social conflicts using the Jews as the escape goat. The credit for all the bad intensions was given to them.

Franco's obsession

During the first half of the XXth Century in Spain it was very common in reactionary groups to refer to that conspiracy as responsible for the Spanish decadency since, at least, the reign of Philip II. The Habsburg Catholic King was the greatest enemy of some heterogeneous groups, like the Sephardi Jews expelled from Spain by the Catholic Monarchs, and their Marrano descendants, enriched by usury, who would have contacted with the Dutch rebels (William the Silent) and other enemies of catholicism and the Spanish Empire, which considered itself its firmest defender. Such would be responsible for the anti-Spanish propaganda called the Black Legend. The fact that among protestants (in special Luther) antisemitism was even stronger than among catholics doesn't seem contradiction enough for this theory.

The Dictator Francisco Franco grew up in this intellectual ambient, and some sources ascribe to it the special hatred that he had towards Freemasonry, since apparently he tried to join without success . This sources also emphasize the situation of his family, son of a Spanish Navy official that could not continue the family tradition due to the force reduction caused by the lose of the Spanish Empire in the Spanish-American War. The winners, the United States (paradoxically later would be the main supporters of Franco), are seen as an infernal power, protectors of all kinds of heretic sects, dominated by greed and capitalism of Jewish origin (be not surprised by the contradiction capitalism-communism), and by the Jew-manipulated newspapers. The success of his brother Ramón Franco, the first aviator to cross the Atlantic Ocean with a hydroplane, known by his progressivist ideology and masonry membership, had stressed the feeling of inferiority in Francisco Franco. Forced to resign himself to enter the Army, he achieved a brilliant career in the Spanish-African colonial army, where he was wounded. In this military ambients he approached the anti-communist publications that were published in France by groups influenced by antisemitic exiled russians.

His rise to the leadership of the rebelled band during the Spanish Civil War allowed him to concentrate the repression against the elements that he perceived as anti-Spanish: freemasons and leftists, features that he saw in the totality of the Republican defenders. The reconstruction he ordered at the General Archives of the Spanish Civil War in Salamanca, with all the confiscated papers, of a hall reproducing all the decorative show of a Masonic Lodge with all kinds of squalid elements is a good example of his obsession.

During the difficult forties, first during the Second World War in which the sympathies of the franquist regime for Germany were obvious (but with a more neutral position after 1942 when the allies were seen as winning), and later during the international isolation during the post-war, Franco produced some memorable public speeches, referring to the persistent drought (another obsession) and went on with the judaeomasonic conspiracy as the culprit of all the disasters in Spain. However, some actions favorable to Sephardi Jews during the war (like the diplomat Ángel Sanz Briz) made it possible for him to present himself as not racist. In fact, that point was important for National Catholicism to integrate the theory without problems. "Spanish race" is just a metaphorical concept, defined just by the extension of catholic faith and miscegenation in America.

The subsequent approach to United States dampened all that rhetoric along with the too explicit fascist references of the regime, although they did not disappear completely until the end of franquism.

Conspiracy theory, renewed

In recent times, the hidden relationships between those groups are still being looked for, as an attempt to renew the old theory, although it has no relevance it had the early franquism. The generalized fear of terrorism has at the beginning of the XXI century an islamic face, but that is not enough for some authors. Regarding masonry, it has provided countless topics for more or less historic fantastic narrative that speculate with hidden explanations.

However, the Judeomasonic Conspisacy theories found new currency among the various marginal political forces in post-Soviet Russia, where widespread destitution created fertile ground for conspiracy theories, as well as Blood Libel. These viewpoints are also voiced by several antisemitic writers, notably by Igor Shafarevich, Oleg Platonov, Vadim Kozhinov and the late Grigory Klimov.

Referencess

1. José María Perceval Un crimen sin cadáver: el Santo Niño de la Guardia (a crime without corpse: the holy child of La Guardia, Historia 16, n. 202, p.44-58, February 1993, accessible at: (in Spanish)
2. The Protocols, with comments about its condition of plagiarism and fraud:
3. However, Marx is considered as a judeophobic Jew, as he considered Judaism as a hindrance to abolish to reach his revolutionary purposes, and also posed the identification between Judaism, bourgeoisie, and capitalism.(in spanish)
4. Felipe II. Madrid: Espasa Calpe. 1937–1943.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)

See also

• Andinia Plan
• Anti-communism
• Anti-Masonry
• Antisemitism
• Conspiracy theory
• Masonic conspiracy theories
• New World Order (conspiracy)
• Racism
• Synarchism

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• Francoist Spain
• Antisemitism
• Anti-communism
• Anti-Masonry