World Jewish Congress

An artist's depiction of a fictional flaming "gas chamber"; drawn by an inmate named Olere after 1945 from "memory." This is as good an example of Fake News as you will find since images like this are shown in the place of photographs by the media.

By Carolyn Yeager

RECENTLY 'FAKE NEWS' HAS GOTTEN A LOT of attention, meaning news reports that are presented as well-intentioned and factual by the popular media but are not. The motherlode of all fake news was the constant stream of reports that appeared between 1941 and 1945 in the New York Times that claimed Jews by the thousands and then hundreds of thousands were being slaughtered, being gassed, being shot, just because they were Jews – mainly in Eastern Europe. These reports invariably came from unnamed sources and “anti-fascist committees”; they were relayed by a local Jewish rabbi or spokesman. Despite the lack of provable details of any kind, these fake news reports continued to be published in the Times and were picked up by smaller newspapers and broadcasters around the country.

We can’t say how many people actually believed those reports at the time, but we can say with confidence that the reports were fictitious, mere war propaganda – and worse than that because they were partially instigated and fully supported by the World Jewish Congress which had only been established in 1936 to fight Adolf Hitler. What we know as The Holocaust was invented between 1944 to 1946 by the World Jewish Congress and its network of influential, well-placed Jews throughout Europe, Britain and the United States.