Glenn Beck is now peddling the theory that China, Russia and the Muslim world engineered the financial crisis. Jesus H. Christ.

“According to a column in a British magazine, Julian Assange complained that he believes a “Jewish” conspiracy is bent on smearing WikiLeaks. Private Eye, a print magazine know both for satire and original reporting, printed a column penned by editor Ian Hislop today that details a Feb. 16 phone conversation between Hislop and Assange.

While discussing a WikiLeaks associate in Russia recently accused of denying the Holocaust, Assange told Hislop that the story represented a larger conspiracy organized by the Guardian newspaper in order to deny his organization of Jewish donations and support. In a reproduction of the Private Eye column — which is currently only available in print — Hislop attempted to reason with Assange“

It seems (deliberately) difficult to make sense of what’s going on here. Links lead eventually to the following wikileaks statements.

TwitLonger: WikiLeaks statement that was given to, but not used by, the UK satirical current-affairs magazine, P:

“Israel Shamir has never worked or volunteered for WikiLeaks, in any manner, whatsoever. He has never written for WikiLeaks or any associated organization, under any name and we have no plan that he do so. He is not an ‘agent’ of WikiLeaks. He has never been an employee of WikiLeaks and has never received monies from WikiLeaks or given monies to WikiLeaks or any related organization or individual. However, he has worked for the BBC, Haaretz, and many other reputable organizations.

It is false that Shamir is ‘an Assange intimate’. He interviewed Assange (on behalf of Russian media), as have many journalists. He took a photo at that time and has only met with WikiLeaks staff (including Asssange) twice.“

TwitLonger: Because WikiLeaks has some Jewish staff and enjoys wide spread Jewish support, its staff have freque:

“We treasure our strong Jewish support and staff, just as we treasure the support from pan-Arab democracy activists and others who share our hope for a just world.“

Is Julian Assange an Anti-Semite or Should We Take Him at His Word? — Daily Intel:

“The problem with Julian Assange, of course, is that he’s the silver-haired man of mystery who sees conspiracies everywhere. And as Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson have shown us, anti-Semitism is on the conspiracy theorists all-time greatest hits.“

Wow. Everybody’s just imagining poor innocent jews everywhere.

The link comes via The Unknown Blogger Who Changed WikiLeaks Coverage – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic, who gushes about the left-o-sphere gushing about the sexed-up extrapolation in Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government” « zunguzungu.

Alex Madrigal and Ethan Zuckerman and Xeni Jardin think Aaron Bady’s take on Wikileaks is just fantastic.

I’m skeptical. I think this is exactly how jewish ethnic networking works.

I see clearly the efforts in media to spin Wikileaks into justification for attacking Iran. I see that the individuals responsible for this spin are Israel-firsters, and all of the individuals I linked above are jews. I note that these individuals use very similar phrases and lines of argument, which certainly could be explained by a shared set of talking points.

Upon examining the cables it’s clear the spin about the Arabs or “the whole world” calling for attack on Iran is hyperbole. The cables actually contain plenty of evidence of insidious long-term GOI influence over USG, including constant pressure from GOI and its agents to convince USG that an attack on Iran is in US interests. There is at least one cable concerning Israeli organized crime which hints gingerly at it’s world-wide impact: Promised land for organized crime?

That’s what I see. I think it’s pretty damning.

I would not characterize what I’ve seen so far as “Wikileaks is giant CIA/MOSSAD “psyops” program”. Nor would I judge the worth of someone’s opinion on a given subject based on their position on 9/11.