Michael Collins Piper#Antisemitism controversy

Piper claimed his political engagement was inspired by his older brother's experience in the Vietnam War. He once said his late brother "never completely recovered from the physical and psychological impact of the war."

In February 2006, he started a radio show called The Piper Report. Regular guests have included Mark Glenn, former candidate for Texas state legislature Barbara Samuelson, and Christopher Bollyn (who occasionally filled in for Piper).{{citation needed|date=February 2013}}

Piper commented about the war on Lebanon, the Mel Gibson affair (in which he derided Gibson for driving under the influence and for apologizing for his statements)[http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Piper/0608/20060801_Tue_Piper.mp3 Piper on Mel Gibson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826002213/http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Piper/0608/20060801_Tue_Piper.mp3 |date=August 26, 2006 }}, mp3.rbnlive.com, August 1, 2006. and the battle between U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT, later I-CT) and businessman Ned Lamont on August 8, 2006. Lamont defeated Lieberman in the Democratic primary, but lost to him in the general election. Piper defended alternative medicine, animal rights, and the past activities of Liberty Lobby and Willis Carto. He was featured as a guest on James Edwards' radio show, The Political Cesspool, which has also been accused of promoting antisemitism.{{cite web|url=http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/guestlist.php|title=Guest List|access-date=August 21, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081109070051/http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/guestlist.php|archive-date=2008-11-09}}

According to Piper in Final Judgment: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Controversy, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orchestrated the assassination after learning that Kennedy planned to keep Israel from obtaining nuclear weapons.{{cite book|last=Goldwag|first=Arthur|title=Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, the Illmuniati, Skull & Bones, Black Helicopters, the New World Order, and Many, Many More|date=August 2009|publisher=Vintage Books|location=New York|isbn=9780307456663|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DDbM5GeMgXIC|access-date=May 15, 2013|page=178|chapter=Conspiracies: The Kennedy Assassinations|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DDbM5GeMgXIC&pg=PA178}}

Piper claimed the assassination "was a joint enterprise conducted on the highest levels of the CIA, in collaboration with organized crime — and most specifically, with direct and profound involvement by the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad."{{cite news|title=College lecturers blame JFK's death on Israelis|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z1IpAAAAIBAJ&pg=3861%2C3207784|access-date=May 15, 2013|newspaper=Sun Journal|date=August 22, 1997|agency=AP|location=Lewiston, Maine|page=7A}} Piper also alleged that Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) were linked to the murder. The ADL responded with harsh criticisms, called the claims ridiculous,"JFK conspiracy course spurs antisemitism charges", The Dallas Morning News, August 21, 1997. and denounced Final Judgment as antisemitic."Library Won't Shelve This Issue; Patrons Can Appeal to Add, Oust Works", Chicago Tribune, March 2, 2000.

Piper wrote articles in American Free Press which alleged that the Mossad and the FBI conspired to set up the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Piper claims this was motivated by fear of King's anti-Israel statements combined with his massive grassroots power.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}

According to his biography by America First Books, which identifies itself as promoting "white nationalism",[http://www.amfir.com "Why do various forms of nationalism, to include 'white nationalism', make good long term business sense for American entrepreneurs"], amfir.com; accessed July 4, 2015.[http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPages/Book_Preview_Pages/piper-michael_collins/Dirty_Secrets/DirtySecrets-5-AuthorBio.html Author Biography America First Books] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106050607/http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPages/Book_Preview_Pages/piper-michael_collins/Dirty_Secrets/DirtySecrets-5-AuthorBio.html |date=January 6, 2011 }}, amfirstbooks.com; accessed July 4, 2015. the ADL repeatedly challenged statements made by Piper, and called him a promoter of antisemitic conspiracy theories, a Holocaust denier, and a defender of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The group says Piper traveled to the United Arab Emirates in 2003 to lecture on anti-Israeli and antisemitic themes.[http://www.adl.org/main_International_Affairs/iran_holocaust_conference.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_5 Piper on Iran Holocaust conference] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090610150339/http://www.adl.org/main_International_Affairs/iran_holocaust_conference.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_5 |date=June 10, 2009 }}, adl.org; accessed June 4, 2015. In one instance, the ADL stated that Piper had suggested that Israel was working on an "ethnic bomb" targeting only Arabs.[http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/zayed_center.asp Piper on Israel: 'preparing an "ethnic bomb"'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040404020109/http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/zayed_center.asp |date=April 4, 2004 }}, adl.org; accessed June 4, 2015.

Piper responded to increasing ADL criticism through his 2006 book The Judas Goat, accusing the ADL of using unethical infiltration and information gathering techniques, such as the use of 'agents provocateurs'. some years later. Writing in Asia Times, researcher and journalist Keith Bettinger says that Piper's views are "characteristic of an effort by anti-Semites and white supremacists to repackage themselves as 'alternative media voices' claiming to tackle stories the mainstream media in the US won't touch".Bettinger, Keith. {{cite web|title=Anti-Semitism Peddled in Southeast Asia|url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/FK30Ae01.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041207001619/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/FK30Ae01.html|url-status=unfit|archive-date=December 7, 2004|newspaper=Asia Times|date=November 30, 2004|access-date=March 31, 2012}}

Piper was invited to Iran to speak at the International Conference On Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision 2006, and personally met with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a Holocaust denier, during his New York City visit to address United Nations General Assembly.[http://www.mikepiperreport.com/Articles_Archive/AmericanFreePress/AFP2007_01-06/Michael_Collins_Piper_AFP200701&08_What_Really_Happened_In_Iran.html "What Really Happened in Iran"], AMERICAN FREE PRESS, January 1 & 8, 2007. His book The New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America, was on sale at the conference."Iran Opens Conference on Holocaust", The New York Times, December 12, 2006.

Piper's body was discovered on May 30 or May 31, 2015 at the Budget Saver Motel in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The deputy coroner's report stated that the cause of death was a "probable Myocardial Infarction, Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Coronary Artery Disease", and listed diabetes as another significant condition. The report indicated that toxicology results were consistent with her findings and that no autopsy was conducted. The article gave Piper's age as 54.Jeff Selle and Maureen Dolan. [http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_924e812e-1518-5dfb-b89a-09210fcf5ef9.html "Death raises questions: Man who died in Cd'A motel was a conspiracy theorist"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705161915/http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_924e812e-1518-5dfb-b89a-09210fcf5ef9.html |date=July 5, 2015 }}, cdapress.com; accessed July 4, 2015.

• Best Witness: The Mel Mermelstein Affair, (1993) Center for Historical Review; {{ISBN|978-0935036480}}
• Final Judgment: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy, (1993) The Wolfe Press; {{ISBN|978-0935036473}}
• The High Priests of War, (2004) American Free Press; {{ISBN|978-0974548418}}
• The New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America, (2004) American Free Press; ASIN B000Y93216
• Target: Traficant, The Untold Story, (2005) American Free Press; {{ISBN|978-0981808611}}
• The Confessions of an Anti-Semite : The First -Ever Critical Analysis of the Linguistic Legerdemain Underlying the Propaganda Techniques of the New World, {{ISBN|978-0977326891}}
• The Judas Goats, The Enemy Within, (2006) American Free Press; {{ISBN|978-0981808628}}
• The Golem: a World Held Hostage, (2007) American Free Press; ASIN B0011DZG2W
• The New Babylon: Those Who Reign Supreme, (2009) American Free Press; {{ISBN|978-0982344811}}
• Ye Shall Know The Truth, (2013) American Free Press; {{ISBN|978-1937787899}}

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• [http://www.mikepiperreport.com Michael Collins Piper personal web site]
• [http://www.amfirstbooks.com America First Books (hosts Piper's works as ebooks)]

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