Notes From the Laughing Academy, Or Kevin Barrett ‘Splains It All to You

by Hugh Fitzgerald

A Muslim since 1993, the “Arabist-Islamologist” Dr. Kevin Barrett holds no academic position, having ended his career as a teacher’s assistant, and lecturer, at the University of Wisconsin. He is a sometime radio host, where he disseminates his conspiracy theories, each more bizarre than the next. Barrett believes that the 9/11 attack was a “false flag operation,” an “inside job” by the Zionists and their neoconservative puppets, to give America the excuse it needed to start wars against Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The website Memri.org has posted both a summary and transcript of an interview he gave on May 4, 2020 to Iran’s English-language channel, Press TV. Barrett had his own theory about why the Germans had recently declared Hezbollah — both its political and military wings — to be a terrorist organization. Barrett said that Germany designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization because that country is still under “Israeli occupation.” He said that the Mossad has entrapped U.S. President Donald Trump and other senior American officials by filming them having sex with children, and that it can be assumed that this is also the case with German Intelligence chief Bruno Kahl and other top leaders in Germany.

Dr. Barret [sic] said that the “corrupt billionaire elites” ruling the Gulf countries denounce Hezbollah because they are “also probably being blackmailed by Israelis along the line of Jeffrey Epstein.” In addition, he said that these Arab leaders steal the money and resources of their countries and hand them over to “their Zionist banker-masters who rule the West.” For more about Dr. Kevin Barret [sic], see MEMRI TV Clips No. 7938, No. 7474, and No. 4220.

The transcript follows:

Kaveh Taghvai: “In a surprise announcement, Germany has labelled Hezbollah a terrorist organization. Now, why has Germany made this decision at this time? Hezbollah secretary general has blasted Germany, saying that this is a baseless accusation. In this edition of Debate, we will look at whether Germany’s decision is succumbing to Israeli and U.S. pressure, or as Hassan Nasrallah has stated, is it to help U.S. plans for the region?

[…]

“Why do you think Germany has labelled Hezbollah a terrorist organization?”

Dr. Kevin Barret [sic]: “Well, I think they’ve been ordered to do it by their masters in Tel Aviv. This was totally organized in Israel, which still basically occupies Germany in so many ways. We have learned in mainstream Israeli as well as German media that Bruno Kahl, who’s the head of German intelligence, head of the BND, is quote unquote, a close friend of the Mossad. So, we all know what that means. Notorious pedophile, blackmailer appointed by Donald Trump and high level American politicians, is just one of a whole legion of Israeli pedophile pimps, who basically get high-level Western politicians, intelligence chiefs like Bruno Kahl and so on, entrapped and film them having sex with children, and then use that to blackmail them.

So Israel “occupies” Germany “in so many ways.” The country is run by its “masters in Tel Aviv.” If Israel does have such control, why did it allow Merkel to admit millions of Muslims, carries of the virus of antisemitism, into Germany? Why did those all-powerful Israeli “occupiers” not prevent the mass migration of those Muslims, where they now constitute a physical threat to German Jews, and promote an anti-Israel political agenda? It is true that Bruno Kahl, the head of German intelligence is “a close friend of the Mossad.” But it’s not for the bizarre reason that Barrett claims. He attributes Kahl’s collaboration with the Mossad to his fear of being exposed as a pedophile – like so many in the Western political class who, Kevin Barrett insists, are being blackmailed by Mossad. That’s not why Kahl is a friend to Mossad. The explanation is much simpler: Mossad has provided German intelligence and law agencies with the information they needed about Hezbollah to recommend that it be shut down in Germany: data, explicit evidence, and proven legal involvement, included Hezbollah’s cash network, worth millions of dollars, and Mossad agents also helped locate Hezbollah’s ammunition depots in Germany.

The interview continues:

So, we can assume that this is the case with Bruno Kahl and many other top leaders in Germany. Just as of course the U.S. has all of Angela Merkel’s phone tapes and they can blackmail her as well. So, Germany is a pathetically occupied country. After it was defeated in WWII, it had all of its norms and values utterly crushed and it was brainwashed by the Zionist occupation government, which still runs Germany and they have apparently decided to persecute the folks in Germany who sympathize with Hezbollah. There is no Hezbollah in Germany. There is no actual organization. But just as here in the United States where many of us are very strong sympathizers with Hezbollah, as I am. In fact right now I am going to violate German law.

Again, the same question for former teacher’s assistant and world-class thinker Dr. Kevin Barrett: If the U.S. possesses all these incriminating tapes about Merkel, why doesn’t Barrett tell us just what she has done that is blackmail material? Why didn’t Zionist-controlled Washington prevent Merkel from opening the German gates wide to Muslim immigration? Or does Kevin Barrett want us to believe that it was the “Zionists” and their “neoconservative American puppets” who actually wanted more Muslims in Europe? How does that make sense? I’m sure Kevin Barrett will find some way to explain it. Let’s save him the trouble, and do it for him: “Merkel was allowing Muslims into Germany in great numbers, as her Zionist masters wanted, so that this would arouse anti-Muslim sentiment in Germany, ending in a civil war that would then spread all across Europe, and the Zionists at that point would provide their European puppets with chemical weapons which would cause the deaths of tens of millions of Muslims.” That sounds sufficiently absurd to have been thought up by Dr. Kevin Barrett, F.R.S., O.M.B.

Barrett also appears to lament the defeat of Nazi Germany, that noble country which tragically “had all of its norms and values utterly crushed” and its people “brainwashed by the Zionist occupation government which still runs Germany.” Jawohl, if only we could bring back those norms and values of Nazi Germany! How much better things would be. But now it’s the Zionists who run everything in that martyred land. And they make sure that Germany frequently votes against Israel in the U.N., and even sends considerable financial aid to the Palestinians — a diabolically clever way for the Zionists to disguise their real role in running the country.

Barrett again, on those all-powerful blackmailing Zionists:

The corrupt billionaire elites who are also probably being blackmailed by Israelis along the lines of Jeffrey Epstein. I think these corrupt elites that rule the Arab world and steal the money and the resources of their countries and hand them over to their Zionist banker-masters who rule the West and grovel before the feet of their colonialist overlords.

Yes, it’s not just the European rulers of countries who are all pedophiles, and being blackmailed by the Zionists. It’s also the billionaires “that rule the Arab world.” These “corrupt elites …rule the Arab world and steal the money and the resources of their countries and hand them over to their Zionist masters.” So the ruling families of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman, with the nearly $30 trillion in revenues that they have amassed from oil sales since 1973 alone, continue to hand over that money to their “Zionist banker-masters.” But if that is true, how were all these countries able to build their fabulously rich cities of Riyadh, Jiddah, Doha, Kuwait City, Abu Dhabi, Manama, with their skyscrapers, airports, seaports, highways, and other infrastructure of every kind? How did the Gulf Arabs pay, too, for the trillions of dollars worth of weaponry that they bought from the West and have stockpiled at home? And if their governments’ wealth has been transferred to their Zionist masters, why are there no signs of such sums having been invested in, or spent by, Israel? And finally, if Saudi Arabia is secretly ruled by Jews, why can’t those Zionist Jews simply command the Saudi rulers to get rid of their virulently antisemitic textbooks? Or is this one more deliberate attempt to fool the world into thinking that the Zionists are not all-powerful? An explanation is called for, one that Kevin Barrett, from his padded cell in the laughing academy, will surely be able to supply.

First published in Jihad Watch,