This new piece would be laughable if not sad. And it is sad, because it's conspiracy theorizing. And, as I now see, Jim DeBrosse, "book" and all, is one of the leading pushers of the "Israel did it" conspiracy.
I think JFK assassination conspiracy theories in general are illogical on the rational side and fail Ockham's Razor on the empirical side. But, for one additional reason, the "Israel did it" is even worse. I'll get to that below.
First, Jefferson Morley is NOT a "respected JFK researcher." He's a conspiracy theorist, even if he claims he's a former one. More on that below. (I've written more than once about him.)
And, Electronic Intifada is suddenly less respected by me than it was a couple of days earlier.
But, before we go there, we have this:
Signs of Israel’s involvement in the Kennedy assassination have been ignored for more than 60 years by a mainstream media that still clings to the lies and omissions of the Warren Report, the official, but widely discredited, US government investigation into the assassination.
Well, the Intifada is officially in conspiracy theory land.
Then we jump here:
For those willing to look at all the facts, there is evidence of a broad conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy, led by rogue elements of the CIA, Israel’s leaders and intelligence officials, the national crime syndicate under the leadership of Zionist gangster Meyer Lansky, and the French underground army of assassins known as the Organisation de l’Armée Secrète (OAS).
Then we have the allegedly Jewish connection.
A document released in 2023 from the JFK archive reveals that Reuben Efron, a lieutenant colonel in the US Army and a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, was reading purported triggerman Lee Harvey Oswald’s private mail years prior to the JFK assassination as part of a closely-held CIA surveillance program.
In reality, per the Times of Israel linked at "document," while he might have been ethnically Jewish, nothing ever says he was working for Mossad or any other Israeli agency. And, if Jeff Morley had the goods on that, he would have said so.
And, from there, we loop in the CIA's top nutbar, which itself shows how uninformed this piece is:
The program was led by James Jesus Angleton, the agency’s counterterrorism chief and its liaison to the Mossad, Israel’s overseas spy agency. Efron, a Zionist whose mother died in the Holocaust, later emigrated from the US to live in Jerusalem.
JFK assassination documents released in 2025 show that Angleton used Mossad operatives to spy on Cuba following the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
There you go.
But, the stupidity doesn't stop there. It continues:
There were certainly motives other than the Zionist ones at play in the conspiracy to murder Kennedy. He withheld air support during the infamous “Bay of Pigs” invasion of Cuba in 1961, embittering the defeated anti-Castro rebels. There are also indications, in at least one National Security Action Memo, 263, that JFK wanted to withdraw American troops from Vietnam after his likely reelection in 1964.
Wrong, wrong and Not.Even.Wrong.
Here's the reality, as I've written, about NSAM-263. And more here, if that's not enough.
But, that's not enough for Jim DeBrosse at the Electronic Intifada, because now he gives us the "sekrut real world" of Jack Ruby:
Ruby – Oswald’s killer – was by no means the small-time pawn of organized crime dismissed by the Warren Commission. By way of the Teamsters Union and the Chicago underworld, he rose to the top of the Dallas area mob. In the early 1950s, Ruby – who used his original surname Rubenstein at the time – befriended Lewis McWillie, the manager of Lansky’s casino operation in Havana. Several months after Castro’s takeover in 1959, Ruby made an unexplained six-day visit to Cuba, where some believe he secured the release of mob boss Santos Trafficante from a Cuban detention camp.
There's no fucking way the Mob would ever have actually trusted wannabe, and Andy Warhol 15-minutes-of-fame seeker Jack Ruby that much. So, I consider that a flat lie, because it IS a flat lie. "Conveniently," DeBrosse has no links, not even to a less than fully reputable site, to try to substantiate that.
But, me? I have Gerald Posner, who explains the reality behind the increase in Ruby's phone calls in mid to late 1963. He also notes the obvious — if Oswald were the actual shooter but a "controlled" patsy, he wouldn't have been allowed to stay alive to three days and possibly spill some beans.
And, don't go into plagiarism claims. If everything he plagiarized is factual, he still wrote facts. Second, I've never heard that claim laid against "Case Closed." That said, it IS funny that Mark Lane, yes, THAT Mark Lane, was his plagiarism attorney.
But why stop there? Let's go into Bobby Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory too!
Lansky was connected to two gangsters closely involved in the JFK assassination plot. The first of these was Jack Ruby, who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald before the supposed killer of JFK could testify. “I’m just a patsy,” Oswald had famously said after his arrest.
The second was Eugene Hale Brading (aka Jim Braden). An ex-convict with known ties to a group of hitmen, Brading was also a suspected courier for Lansky. He was stopped by Dallas police for suspicious behavior in a Dealey Plaza office building minutes after the JFK assassination. Brading, who used numerous aliases and had a long criminal history, was taken in for questioning but released.
On the night Democratic Party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was killed, Brading was once again found in Los Angeles just a mile from the hotel where the younger Kennedy was gunned down. RFK was not only JFK’s brother, but his attorney general.
Oof.
It's me, boys, I did it, even if I lied, denied and waved my hands later.
First, Oswald lied as much as Sirhan Sirhan, to get at both conspiracy theories.
Second, to get at the reality of Sirhan Sirhan, in this case, Zionism IS involved, namely that Sirhan killed Bobby Kennedy because he rightfully thought RFK was a Zionist. THAT is the "one additional reason." And, yes, Sirhan Sirhan did it, period and end of story.
Second, Brading is so nuts he doesn't even get his own Wiki page. See the Wikipedia entry for the document "Gemstone File."
The article goes on to call Jim Garrison a "hero" while at the same time, in referring to CIA and other documents, use the word "imply" regularly.
Jean Souetre? His actual name would be Jean-Jacques Susini, I think. Under the first name, his alleged involvement comes from the febrile mind of E. Howard Hunt.
OK, Shorrock is dealt with in that NSAM-263 link. He's great on Korean Peninsula issues, wrong and a Camelot true believer wrong, on JFK. He's not specifically, AFAIK, a Zionist conspiracy theorist.
Jeff Morley? I didn't believe him when he claimed he was no longer a JFK conspiracy theorist.
Sam Husseini, referenced above? Anti-Zionist conspiracy theorist.
Angleton? Paranoid about CIA infiltration, especially the Nosenko case, which badly damaged the Agency.
The rest of the piece is the usual "throw shit at the wall and see if it sticks."
Not.Even.Wrong., per my 2023 thoughts on the 60th anniversary of the assassination.
The worst part, beyond the conspiracy theory itself, is that it actually gives reputable ammo to Zionists trying to morph anti-Zionism into antisemitism.
And with that, I have removed Electronic Intifada from my blogroll.
And been banned by Libertarian Meme on Reddit for calling the last paragraph of their post on this idiocy full-on antisemitism. (They're Mises Mice fucktards, including openly calling for an end to democracy.)
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Update, Nov. 4, 2025: Asa Winstanley and compadres at Palestine is Still the Issue have joined Electronic Intifada in "platforming" Jim DeBrosse's nutbar conspiracy theory.
I have unfollowed it on Substack after calling it out, including the issue that Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby for being a Zionist!
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