United States / 06-07-2012
Joachim Martillo blames Jews for financial crisis
Joachim Martillo“There is an intimate connection between the collapse of the financial system, both in the United States and worldwide, and US international policy and its manipulation by a class of hyper-wealthy Jewish Zionists.”
These words, spoken on June 26 on Iran’s PressTV, are the sort of thoughts one would expect from a particularly vile third world Mullah, or from a skinhead clad in racist paraphernalia, or perhaps even from a ranting man in an Elmo suit in Central Park. However, instead they were spoken by a self-proclaimed “Financial analyst” named Joachim Martillo, who claimed that an interconnected, “essentially ethnic network” of Jews on Wall Street secretly control the levers of the United States financial system.
“90 percent of the people that were convicted of fraud with regard to the S&L meltdown were Jewish,” Martillo says. He then proceeds to blame this supposed Jewish conspiracy not only for the Wall Street crash, but also for the rising oil prices in the 70′s (which apparently had something to do with expropriating Arab wealth for Jews), and for the failure of the housing market. This all leads up to the quote listed above.
Martillo’s status as a “financial analyst” is dubious. What is also dubious is his stance on the Holocaust. Martillo’s paper trail is surprisingly thin for a man who was able to get traction on a major Iranian network (as it appears to consist mostly of internet comments left under his name), but a quick look at his Facebook shows him making a rather interesting observation about the event in question (the Middle East Media Research Institute {MEMMRI} calls him a ‘Holocaust Denier’).
