Jew Watch
Jew Watch is a website featuring what appears to be the largest archive of anti-Semitic opinion and propaganda on the Internet. Jew Watch descibes its objective as "Keeping a Close Watch on Jewish Communities and Organizations Worldwide." The website asserts that "Jew Watch is a Not-For-Profit Library for private study, scholarship, or research."
Content
Jew Watch organizes its materials in the form of a Web directory. Its material is organized under topic heads such as "Jewish-Zionist-Soviet Anti-American Spies," "Jewish Communist Rulers & Killers," "Jewish Terrorists," "Jewish Controlled Press," "Jewish Entertainment," "Zionist Occupied Government," "Jewish Communists,"
"Jewish Atrocities," "Jewish Mind Control Mechanisms," "Jewish Banking & Financial Manipulations," "Jewish World Conspiracies" and many others.
Jew Watch promotes a version of the classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. Among many other claims, it claims that the United States is ruled by a "Zionist Occupied Government," that Communism was invented by Jews and was a Jewish plot to enslave the world, that Jews control the world finance system and the media, that Jews have committed or are planning genocide against Christians (and against the Palestinian people), and that the Holocaust of World War II either never happened or was greatly exaggerated.
Jew Watch also has a large list of names of celebrities and historical figures which it claims are Jewish or of Jewish descent, although a number of these claims are false.
Authorship
The identities of those behind Jew Watch is not known with certainty, but the site appears to be linked to known neo-Nazi groups in the United States. The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organization, says that the main author of Jew Watch is Frank Weltner, a retired librarian and activist in a neo-Nazi group called the National Alliance. Weltner has also been known on WGNU radio as "Couch Potato" since 1992.
A Whois search lists Frank Weltner as Jew Watch's main administrative contact. Weltner is also listed as the copyright holder and technical contact for several other racialist and anti-Semitic websites, including and The site purports to contain a listing of all of Weltner's websites.
A website linked to the National Alliance appears to confirm Weltner's connection with Jew Watch, stating that: "National Alliance member Frank Weltner has operated Jew Watch since 1995 as a watchdog site and Internet resource for readers and scholars interested in researching Jewish issues."
Another neo-Nazi figure linked to Jew Watch is Don Black, a former Ku Klux Klan activist in Alabama who now heads a group called Stormfront. Black describes himself at his as having been "active in the White patriot movement for 30 years." Some sources say that Black is, or until recently was, the technical contact of the domain name of both Jew Watch and the Stormfront webaite.
Jew Watch and Google
Jew Watch gained much publicity in 2004 when it became the first website listed in the Internet search engine Google under "Jew", although a Google bomb campaign was later successful in placing BambooWeb's article "Jew" in the top spot.
The increasing publicity has resulted in many news sites, blogs and general information sites to link to Jew Watch. This creates an unintentional (or intentional in some cases) Googlebomb.
In May 2004 National Alliance on Jew Watch and Google, providing a conspiracy theory.
