Anti-Semitic theorists subordinated the Illuminati to an overarching Jewish plot led by money.

Evidence

But for her the ultimate lever was money, because money could buy control. “This power,” she concluded, “is wholly in the hands of international Jewish fi nanciers.” She had less diffi culty than Webster in fi guring out the relation between the Illuminati and the Jews; as far as she was concerned, the Illuminati was simply one tentacle of the Jewish world conspiracy: “Illuminism represented the efforts of the heads of the powerful Jewish Kahal [sic] which has ever striven for the attainment of political, fi nancial, economic and moral world domination.” — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 279

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the antisemitic Protocols-of-Zion genre and money-as-lever tropes found in related reading on New World Order claims. — connects to: Enemies of the French Revolution kept the dissolved Illuminati alive to explain upheaval — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 272; Later Illuminati theorists reframed Weishaupt as a figurehead run by Jewish bankers — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 289; Leftist antisemitism drew strength from Jews’ actual moneylending and finance roles — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 170 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Later Illuminati theorists reframed Weishaupt as a figurehead run by Jewish bankers #expands (0.92) — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 289
• Anti-Semitic radicals misidentified the Jewish banker as capitalism’s central figure #exemplifies (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 171
• Leftist antisemitism drew strength from Jews’ actual moneylending and finance roles #qualifies (0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 170