Richard Hoagland Blames Antisemitism on Jews' Special Connection to Space Aliens

​The ongoing war in the Middle East has sparked incidents of Antisemitism and Islamophobia as tensions spill over into protests, counterprotests, and acts of violence and hate worldwide. In this volatile environment, the last thing we need is kooky ufologists opining on the “real” origin of Jews. And yet, that’s exactly what we got last night when Richard Hoagland, once famous for claiming to have found alien monuments on the moon and Mars, claimed on his podcast that Antisemitism is the result of the Jews having a special relationship with space aliens that gave them unique scientific knowledge:

This is an incredibly timely and important subject, not only in light of the insane “Israeli-Hamas War” currently raging across Gaza, but the simultaneous, unprecedented resurgence of naked hate and violence being directed at ONE people, spreading rapidly again across the United States and the World–
 
“Anti-Semitism.”
 
Our main reason for doing such a show tonight lies with a profound, documdentable (sic) discovery we made many years ago regarding the Jewish people–
 
That, of ALL humans on Earth, Jews seem to have (at least, at one time …) most clearly left a record of some kind of “direct ancient connection with god” — i.e., direct contact with a representative of a “highly advanced, technological culture,” who DELIBERATELY left the Hebrew people a unique and profoundly valuable “gift”:
 
A Fundamental Understanding of “Hyperdimensional Physics!”

​I’m sure the similarity to the Nazis’ condemnation of theoretical physics as “Jewish science” is completely coincidental. I would also take issue with Hoagland’s claim to have made an original “discovery.”
 
Hoagland’s claim is far from the first to link Jews to a special relationship with space aliens. Erich von Däniken, history’s most famous ancient astronaut theorist, wrote in Chariots of the Gods that Yahweh was likely a space alien who protected Moses and his people. He also speculated in the 1980s, in Signs of the Gods, that the Jews were the “chosen race” of the space aliens, as an offshoot of the white race created to replaced the “failed” Black race.

Similarly, the far-right French journalist and fundamentalist Catholic Marc Dem published The Lost Tribes from Outer Space in 1974 (English translation, 1977), depicting Jews as the specially designed warrior race created by an alien named Yahweh to colonize and control the world and love him unconditionally, while the rest of humanity was a separate creation of the Elohim who evolved naturally from prehuman species. The evil alien Jews even built Stonehenge: “Were they the unknown people who landed on the west coast of Europe and went inland, marking their passage with pieces of granite and bluestone planted in the soil of Brittany and Wales? If so, megaliths are ancient traces of the unsuccessful attempt of YHWH's armies to make themselves masters of the planet; they are the first history book of the Jews, dating from before the time when their Lord taught them to write and dictated the Bible to them.”
 
According to Dem, Jesus, defying the evil Yahweh, made a “desperate attempt” to stop him, and the Knights Templar remain a “secret militia” carrying out the alien Yahweh’s evil orders. “It is not my intention to give anti-Semitism any support whatsoever,” Dem wrote, before claiming that plain reading of history’s facts simply show that Jews are soulless alien soldiers created to worship an egomaniacal alien. “The Jews come from space, and they will return there,” Dem promises, envisioning a day, no later than “the late twentieth century or, at most, the beginning of the twenty-first,” when all Jews self-deport to the stars in Yahweh’s spaceship.  
 
Dem argued that the Jews are great at physics because Yahweh plies them with secret alien knowledge to keep them ahead of the naturally evolved real humans. He concludes that Antisemitism emerged because real earthly humans hate imitation non-humans from outer space.
 
This is also more or less Richard Hoagland’s claim, somewhat reworked and reworded to sound less explicitly Antisemitic. 

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