Anton Chaitkin
Anton Chaitkin (born 1943), also known as Tony Chaitkin, is an American researcher and activist known for his niche viewpoints and advocacy considered fringe by the political mainstream. He was a prominent writer for Lyndon LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review as its history editor, contributing to polemical columns against free trade, Scottish Rite Masonry, European elites (particularly the British), Kabbalism, B'nai B'rith, and the Anti-Defamation League.
Background
Chaitkin was born in 1943 to an American Jewish family. His father, Jacob Chaitkin, was a legal counsel for the American Jewish Congress's 1933 economic boycott against Nazi Germany.[1] The younger Chaitkin has argued that his father's patriotic efforts to cripple the Nazi economy were sabotaged by perfidious opposition from (what is alleged to be British-controlled) B'nai B'rith, the ADL, and the American Jewish Committee.[2]
Controversies
Chaitkin was perhaps the earliest individual to prominently expose the Nazi-like characteristics of ObamaCare long before American conservatives co-opted the LaRouche insinuation of an ObamaâHitler link:[3]
| â | It was a LaRouche aide named Anton Chaitkin who stiffened the Obama-as-Hitler attack in response to what he called 'a propaganda movement for euthanasia.' Soon pamphlets were produced: 'Act Now to Stop Obamaâs Nazi Health Plan!'
In Massachusetts, Congressman Barney Frankâs town hall was disrupted by a young glassy-eyed LaRouche-ite who asked, 'Why are you supporting this Nazi policy, as Obama has?' |
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âThe Daily Beast, Jul. 14, 2017 | ||
References
- â Gottlieb, Moshe Raphael (1982). American Anti-Nazi Resistance, 1933-1941: An Historical Analysis, p. 132. Google Books. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
- â Chaitkin, Anton (Apr. 26, 1996). "The ADL faction in American history," Executive Intelligence Review, vol. XXIII, no. XVIII, p. 43.
- â Avlon, John (Jul. 14, 2017). Wingnuts Excerptâ"Obama as Hitler". The Daily Beast. Retrieved July 15, 2024.