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Washington councilman accuses ‘Rothschilds’ of controlling the weather

(JTA) – A councilman in Washington, D.C., apologized for suggesting on Facebook that rich Jews who control the weather caused an unexpected snowstorm. Trayon White Sr., a Democrat representing the district’s 8th Ward, posted a video early Friday morning in which he accused “the Rothschilds” of controlling the climate to make money – an antisemitic conspiracy theory that has gained traction on the web. He later removed the video, and issued an apology.

The Rothschilds are a well-known European Jewish dynasty descended from a Jewish banker originally from Germany.

In the video, White said: “Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y’all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation. And D.C. keep talking about, ‘We a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful.”

Internet conspiracy theorists claim that the Rockefeller Foundation’s Resilient Cities initiative, which provides grants to cities, including Washington, to address environmental and economic problems, is part of a plot to control and reduce the population of North America. And some conspiracy theorists also think the Rothschilds, working together with the Rockefellers, have technology to control the weather. A YouTube video by a Northern California conspiracy monger, claiming that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers are part of a “genocide program,” has been viewed over 55,000 times.

White told The Washington Post, which called him for comment, that the video “says what it says” and expressed surprise that his remarks were considered antisemitic. He sent an apology to the newspaper for the post four hours after it appeared online via text message. White said that the Jews United for Justice, a group that advocates for progressive causes and which endorsed him in 2016, was “helping me to understand the history of comments made against Jews and I am committed to figuring out ways to continue to be allies with them and others.”

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