MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL REPEATS DEBUNKED ANTI-SEMITISM SMEAR AGAINST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY:

“When Schlafly spoke of the Eastern Establishment and the kingmakers within the Republican Party, she was referring to people like Ogden Reid, publisher of The New York Herald; Thomas Lamont, senior partner of J. P. Morgan; and Nelson Rockefeller, heir to the Rockefeller fortune. They were WASP’s,” Critchlow explained. As it turns out, Schlafly was attacking white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, not Jews.

“Warner asserts that everybody knows that ‘Wall Street and the Trilateral Commission’ are code words for world domination by an international Jewish conspiracy. Schlafly never spoke of world domination by the Trilateral Commission. She has opposed such international treaties as Kyoto, the Law of the Sea, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Her views are arguable, but it is unfair to say that she is anti-Semitic,” Critchlow explained. “Are those unionists, environmentalists and anti-Wall Street, anti-Trilateralist types who protest at international meetings of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund or G-8 using anti-Semitic code words?”

The historian also noted that real anti-Semites do not use “code words.”