Another Horny Conspiracy (This Time About Porn)
Look at that sad Jew obsessed shmuck. TRT World is yet another “Free Palestine” page filled with Nazi rhetoric.
Another Horny Conspiracy
Intro to Pali Lies
Arabs used to tell their children that Jews have horns: https://kingchill.com/jude/repost-1967.
Likely, some still do.
There is a long tradition of claiming Jews are descendants of pigs and apes, Khazars, lizard people, or whatever else helps racist scum conjure a grotesque image. Apparently, BBC anchors prefer to just call us rats, the same image the Nazis used for “ick.”
Every day, I see new conspiracies about Jews—most of which contradict each other. According to Palestine supporters:
Jews either invented the entire LGBT+ movement to subvert other cultures (duping ourselves in the process), or we’re the ones preventing LGBT from being accepted (just don’t look up where hormone blockers are produced).
Kanye West says we’re to blame for all abortions, but, Hannah Einbinder claims we’re the reason abortion access is blocked (despite Israel legalizing abortion before the U.S. Not to mention Emma Goldman’s work).
If you ask a carnivore, Jews apparently block shawarma from Gaza. If you ask a vegan, we block Gaza from being a vegan utopia. And, yes, I’ve seen both claims made, sometimes from the same IG influencers.
The point is always the same: whatever you hate, blame [[them]]. Imagine that if you deal with [[them]], you get your version of paradise. And, never, ever, discuss what your paradise entails, else your comrades and you will fight, realizing how one “Free Palestine” is the polar opposite of another. Scapegoat, insist on conclusions, and don’t think about it.
As someone (I forget who) pointed out, Jay-Z can rap that Jews own all the property in America and nobody flinches. Never mind that the Emmerson family (not Jewish), then John Malone (Irish, not Jewish), and Ted Turner (Episcopalian, not Jewish) are the ones who own the most property in America. Or that the British Royal Family, the Catholic Church, and the Saudis—none of them Jewish—own the most global property.
As Sartre said, truth is not their goal.
But some of the “antizionist not antisemite” lies are too bizarre to not write about. I dropped the ball on the ‘Gaza is into veganism’ one, but will get there. My favorite lie, repeated by the dumbest of the dumb, is: “There was peace before 1948.” Just ignore virtually all wars predate 1948, and centuries of pogroms… for Palestine.
If you need someone to believe every FREE FREE PUBLICITY lie, starting with “We once had a Wakanda” is a great start. Once someone has stopped questioning that there was peace on Earth, they can believe anything, like ‘all terrorism comes from US and Israel,’ or that ‘Israel evaporates bodies of Palestinians to lower the death count.’ When evidence of the lie comes out, nobody is held accountable. The next lie comes out, until they can circle back to the previous.
When Free Palestine is out of fearmongering, they move to jealousy and the other sins. Suddenly, everything Jews and Israel have contributed to the world was secretly Palestinian. Jesus—famously Jewish, famously from Judea, famously would not be allowed in Palestine—is somehow Palestinian. The Temples? Now Islam predates it. And Jews are said “to have no culture.” Just ignore the holidays, food, fashion, Nobel prizes, innovation, and millennia of tradition…
Yep, BDS-backs claims that Israel has no innovation, despite actually being unable to boycott Israeli invention. BDS can’t boycott the internet, because they need it to spread their hate. The internet was largely built by Jews and Israelis:
Hedy Lamarr (Jewish by birth) co-invented frequency hopping, the foundation for WiFi and Bluetooth.
Bob Kahn co-created TCP/IP, the protocol that powers the entire internet.
Leonard Kleinrock helped build ARPANET, the direct ancestor of the internet.
Israel’s cyber unit 8200, alongside other IDF tech forces, helped the U.S. build out early web infrastructure.
8200 graduates launched countless startups, especially in cybersecurity—like Check Point, CyberArk, and NSO Group.
Dov Moran, founder of M-Systems, invented the USB flash drive.
Most major tech companies now run R&D hubs in Israel because they know we’re necessary.
AI is especially reliant on Israeli talent—some of our founders get funding before they even name the product.
Many BDS activists were caught building sites with Wiz, not even a great website builder.
They hate us cause they aint us.
Do Jews Own (All) Porn?
The latest laughable lie: “Jews/Zionists own all the porn.” “Jews invented porn.” or tying multiple lies together with, “Jews use porn, especially gay porn, to subvert the Aryan Culture… also they’re the supremacists, not us.”
There are two core claims to the original iteration of these lies:
Pornhub was founded by Jews. (False. It was started by Syrians in Canada.)
Pornhub is currently owned by a rabbi. (False, but it has an iota of truth.)
This year, apparently owning all the porn wasn’t damning enough. So there’s a fresh new libel: Jews run 98 percent of the gay porn industry. (Source: None. Completely fabricated.)
Why 98 percent? The same reason as 109 states. They pick a specific lie so it’s more believable when repeated.
I did a deep dive into the facts. Within minutes, it was obvious these conspiracies are pure garbage.
This repeated lie is as lazy as they come, but won’t go away time soon.
Pornhub had a decade of major legal and moral issues under non-Jewish ownership, including unchecked user-generated content and illegal material. If anything, it was a Jew who stepped in to clean it up—after a decade of abuse, law evasion, and trafficking that previous (non-Jewish) owners allowed to fester. Jews should be thanked for reducing PornHub’s exploitive issues, but are instead blamed for the existence of gay porn.
Yes, a Jew (who happens to be an ordained rabbi, but works as a lawyer) bought Pornhub, and reformed it. He was mocked and harassed for doing so by QAnon freaks who think they’re helping the world one scapegoat at a time. The very people who obsessed over J. Epstein really don’t want you to know that a Jew stopped child porn from being regularly uploaded on a major website.
After hours of digging, I let ChatGPT take over. And for clarity, I asked ChatGPT to find evidence of Jewish or Israeli invovlement, not evidence of uninvolvement. If you want to objectively understand something, you need to take the approach of believing the opposite, then finding where the truth actually sits.
Below you’ll find deep research into the absurd claims that Jews run the porn industry. It’s based on objective inquiry, not defensiveness. And for clarity, as someone who’s not a prude, not afraid of the gays, I wouldn’t care if Jews did run a big chunk of the porn or gay porn industry. Gulf states have oil. UK and Switzerland have stolen goods. US and Qatar have slave labor. It would be strange, but not be a big deal, if Jews owned sexy time. But Jews don’t.
Note: “Anti-semitic” was changed to “antisemitic” after copy/pasting the Chat GPT text. Text was bolded to make the response easier to skim. No other edits were made.
Jewish and Israeli Influence in the Porn Industry & Pornhub: Separating Fact from Fiction
Claims of Jewish or Israeli Control in the Porn Industry
Claims that Jews or Israelis “dominate” or control the porn industry (including general and gay pornography) have circulated in conspiratorial and antisemitic circles [timesofisrael.comjpost.com]. For example, a 2019 Al Jazeera segment alleged that Jews were “the first to expand porn” and cited a few Jewish figures (like porn actor Ron Jeremy and Vivid Entertainment founderSteven Hirsch) as evidence [jpost.com]. It even quoted the provocateur publisher Al Goldstein saying Jews in porn “hate Christ” [jpost.com] – a statement often used to suggest a malicious “Jewish agenda” behind adult entertainment. Similarly, white supremacist David Duke has tweeted that “Jews dominate porn,” framing it as an attack on Christian society [timesofisrael.com]. These narratives cherry-pick certain individuals and rely on bigoted tropes, but how do they stack up against verifiable facts?
Historical Context: It is true that secular Jewish entrepreneurs have played a role in the American adult film industry, especially in its early and mid-20th century development. Historian Nathan Abrams has documented that Jews were disproportionately represented among pornographers and performers relative to their population [sharefinalcall.com finalcall.com]. For instance, from the 1920s onward some immigrant Jewish businessmen were prominent in distributing erotic [materialsfinalcall.com]. Notorious 1970s porn mogul Reuben Sturman – dubbed “the Walt Disney of Porn” – was Jewish and at one point “controlled most of the pornography circulating in [the U.S.]” [finalcall.com]. In later decades, Jewish figures like Steve Hirsch (co-founder of Vivid Entertainment) became major players in adult film [productionfinalcall.com]. There are also well-known Jewish adult performers (e.g. Ron Jeremy, Nina Hartley) and publishers (e.g. Screw magazine’s Al Goldstein). This historical presence is the kernel of truth that conspiracy theorists often exaggerate.
Reality Check: Importantly, having a “disproportionate” presence is not the same as controlling an entire industry. The adult entertainment business has always included people ofmany backgrounds, and no evidence shows a monolithic Jewish or Israeli cabal running it. In fact, several of the largest pornography empires were founded by non-Jews. For example, Playboy (1953) was founded by Hugh Hefner (of Protestant background), Penthouse by Bob Guccione, and Hustler by Larry Flynt – none of whom are Jewish.
Today’s biggest porn conglomerate (formerly MindGeek, now Aylo – owner of Pornhub, Brazzers, etc.) was led until recently by CEOs of Middle Eastern and European descent, not by Israelis or Jewish community organizations. Allegations that “Jews ban porn in Israel but spread it elsewhere” [jpost.com] or that there is a “Zionist agenda” behind porn are not supported by credible data – they stem from antisemitic propaganda.
In the gay porn sector, there is also no evidence of overarching Jewish control. Notably, Israeli-born producer Michael Lucas (CEO of Lucas Entertainment) is one of the few prominent Jewish gay porn studio owners; he himselfstated, “I’m the only Jewish owner of an adult [gay] company in the industry” [ynetnews.com]. His visibility may have fed speculation, but as Lucas’s comment suggests, Jewish ownership is rare on the “gay side” of the porn business.
Motivations and Myths: Credible scholarship indicates that Jewish individuals entered the porn industry as individuals pursuing opportunities, not as a coordinated effort. Many were drawn by the same factors attracting others: profit and the chance to break into a new media frontier. During much of the 20th century, pornography was a marginal business with fewer barriers to entry, welcoming those (including Jewish entrepreneurs) who faced discrimination in mainstream [fieldsfinalcall.com finalcall.com].
As Anti-Defamation League director Abraham Foxman observed, “Those Jews who enter the pornography industry have done so as individuals pursuing the American dream,” driven largely by entrepreneurial [motivesfinalcall.com]. In other words, Jewish participation in adult entertainment has been personal and secular, not religiously or ethnically driven.MostJewish pornographers are non-observant and did not feature any overtly Jewish themes in their content [finalcall.com]. The bottom line is that while a number of Jews (especially in the U.S.) have been influential in porn’s history, the claim that Jews or Israelis “control” the porn industry is overblown and misleading [timesofisrael.com]. It is a conspiracy. No verified statistics support the notion of Jewish dominance; instead, this claim appears in fabricated or extremist narratives rather than in reputable industry analyses.
Pornhub: Founders, Ownership Changes, and Policy Evolution
Pornhub’s story offers a case study in how the modern pornography industry is not dominated by any single ethnicity or religion, and how content policies have changed under public scrutiny.
Pornhub was founded in 2007 at the dawn of the online “tube site” revolution (when porn sites began adopting a free streaming model similar to YouTube). Its creation is credited to a team of young tech entrepreneurs in Montreal, Canada – notably Matt Keezer, along with partners Stephane Manos, Ouissam Youssef, and Feras Antoon [slidebean.com]. (Keezer had earlier launched other adult sites and a network called Interhub.) This group, none of whom are Israeli or Jewish (and only one of whom – Antoon – has Middle Eastern heritage), also founded the adult studio Brazzers around the same time [slidebean.com]. Pornhub launched in May 2007 and rapidly gained global popularity as a free aggregator of adult videos [netflix.com].
In 2010, Pornhub was acquired by German internet entrepreneur Fabian Thylmann, who bought the site (along with others) for about $140 million and consolidated them under a company called Manwin [slidebean.com]. Thylmann was known for his technical savvy (he developed software for tracking web traffic) and he aggressively expanded his porn portfolio [slidebean.com]. Under Thylmann’s ownership, Pornhub’s traffic and revenue skyrocketed – by 2012 Manwin even managed porn operations for brands like Playboy [slidebean.com]. No evidence suggests Thylmann (a German national) or Manwin had any Jewish or Israeli backing; his success was a story of leveraging technology and scale in a lucrative market.
In 2013, Fabian Thylmann was embroiled in a legal case (tax evasion charges in Germany) and decided to sell the business. Pornhub’s ownership then shifted to a management-led buyout: Thylmann’s lieutenants Feras Antoon and David Marmorstein Tassillo. Tassillo took control, rebranding the company as MindGeek [slidebean.com]. MindGeek (based in Montreal/Luxembourg) would operate Pornhub for the next decade. Antoon, of Syrian-Canadian background, became CEO; Tassillo (Canadian) became COO. Neither was Israeli (Tassillo has a Jewish-soundingmiddle name, but there’s no indication of any religious role in the company). MindGeek grew into a porn behemoth owning multiple top sites (Pornhub, YouPorn, RedTube) and studios. During this period, Pornhub’s content policies were relatively lax, much like other user-generated platforms. Anyone could upload videos, and verification of uploaders or performers was not stringent – a situation that later led to serious problems.
Content Moderation Changes:A turning point came in late 2020. In December of that year, a New York Times exposé by Nicholas Kristof accused Pornhub of hosting videos of rape, child abuse, and non-consensual acts, due to poor moderation. The fallout was immediate: major credit card companies (Visa and Mastercard) suspended payments with Pornhub after these revelations [techcrunch.com]. Facing public outrage and the threat to its revenue, Pornhub’s owner MindGeek took drastic action. On December 14, 2020, Pornhub announced the removal of all content uploaded by unverified users – millions of videos were taken down in one sweep [techcrunch.com]. Going forward, only verified creators or official content partners could upload to the site [techcrunch.com]. Pornhub characterized this as “the most comprehensive safeguards in user-generated platform history” [techcrunch.com]. In effect, the site instituted mandatory ID verification for all uploaders and disabled downloads of content to hinder redistribution of illegal videos. This was a major shift in policy, directly prompted by external pressure rather than an ownership change – MindGeek’s leadership at the time (Antoon and Tassillo) remained the same throughout 2020.
The scandal did, however, contribute to leadership changes soon after. In June 2022, under continued scrutiny (including lawsuits alleging MindGeek knowingly profited from trafficking and child porn), CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo resigned from their roles [reuters.comcseinstitute.org]. The company stated this transition had been planned, and the two remained shareholders, but it closely followed the public backlash and documentary investigations into Pornhub’s failures [cseinstitute.org]. MindGeek was left effectively leaderless at the top, and this paved the way for a new chapter.
In early 2023, a newly formed private equity firm named Ethical Capital Partners (ECP) acquired MindGeek (Pornhub’s parent company) [cseinstitute.org]. ECP – based in Canada – presented itself as a group committed to “ethical leadership”in sensitive industries [cseinstitute.org]. Its team includes professionals like a former RCMP police superintendent and tech and legal experts [cseinstitute.org]. Notably, one ECP co-founder and public face is Solomon Friedman, a Canadian criminal-defense lawyer who is also an ordained rabbi [time.com]. Friedman’s involvement garnered media attention as an unusual footnote (an “ordained rabbi” helping run Pornhub) [time.com], but he has framed it as an effort to reform the site’s ethics. Under ECP (which has full control of Pornhub’s parent), the company says it is doubling down on robust content moderation [cseinstitute.orgcseinstitute.org]. As of 2023-2024, Pornhub’s policies require every content creator to verify their identity and age and to provide documentation of consent for all performers in a video ctvnews.ca]. Each new video is reviewed by human moderators before publication, in addition to AI-assisted screening [cseinstitute.org]. The company has implemented fingerprinting technology to automatically block re-uploads of banned content as well [cseinstitute.org]. These measures go beyond what Pornhub had a decade ago, and ECP claims it wants Pornhub to be a “model” for safer adult content platforms.
It’s worth noting that these content restriction changes do not neatly align with any Jewish takeover or such – they align with public and legal pressure. The major crackdown in 2020 occurred under MindGeek’s original owners (who are not Jewish), and the ongoing improvements in 2023 coincide with new ownership by ECP (which includes a Jewish figure, Friedman, but also others). In other words, the tightening of Pornhub’s moderation was driven by external scrutiny and business risk, not by the ethnicity of its owners. If anything, the new ownership by ECP – which removed the old MindGeek shareholders entirely [cseinstitute.org] – has simply continued the trajectory of stricter policies. Friedman and his partners have stated their goal is to “clean up” Pornhub’s reputation and ensure it operates within the law [time.com].
Conclusion
In summary, claims that Jews or Israelis “run” the porn industry are unfounded. While a number of Jewish individuals have been prominent in adult entertainment (especially in the U.S. historically) [finalcall.com], there is no evidence of any organized Jewish dominance of the general or gay porn sectors. Such claims originate from conspiracy theories or antisemitic propagandists [timesofisrael.comjpost.com] and should be viewed with skepticism.
The history of Pornhub – from its Canadian founding by a diverse team in 2007, through ownership by a German investor, then a multinational company, and now a Canadian firm – illustrates that this industry’s leadership is international and driven by entrepreneurship, not by any particular ethnicity or religion. Moreover, Pornhub’s content moderation reforms in 2020–2021 were a reaction to societal and legal pressures, and those reforms have continued under new management in 2023, aimed at making the platform safer. The focus should remain on verifiable facts: individuals of various backgrounds have contributed to porn’s development, but the notion of a disproportionate Jewish or Israeli stranglehold over pornography is not supported by credible data and belongs in the realm of myth rather than reality [timesofisrael.com].
Sources:
Nathan Abrams, “Jews in the American Porn Industry,”Jewish Quarterly (Winter 2004) finalcall.com
Jerusalem Post – report on Al Jazeera’s claims (2019) jpost.com jpost.com.
Times of Israel – Jenna Jameson response to David Duke (2016) timesofisrael.com.
Ynet News – interview with Michael Lucas (2023) ynetnews.com.
Slidebean Tech Story – “Who Created Pornhub?” (2023) slidebean.com slidebean.com.
TechCrunch – “Pornhub removes all unverified content” (Dec 14, 2020) techcrunch.com techcrunch.com.
Reuters – “Pornhub-owner MindGeek CEO, COO resign” (June 21, 2022) reuters.com.
CSE Institute blog – “ECP: Pornhub’s New ‘Ethical’ Owners” (2023) cseinstitute.org cseinstitute.org.
TIME Magazine – “How an Ordained Rabbi Ended Up Owning Pornhub” (Sept 2024) time.com time.com.
Framing The Conspiracy
The tl;dr of the Pornhub story is that a group of non-Jews formed it, and then it changed teams a bunch of times, but only when one Jew was involved with one team did it get labeled as a Jewish product.
Spoiler, the story of several other content creator sites are remarkably similar, with the Jews highlighted, while the vast majority of participants, financiers and execs are not highlighted, because that would kill the conspiracy.
It seems silly to even fact check the daily conspiracies FREE FREE PUBLICITY says about Jews. Their framing points to a systemic problem, which can only be addressed with logic, not facts.
Few classify porn as a uniquely US or Candian phenomenon, despite that being wildly more accurate than calling it Jewish or Zionist. It’s an international phenomena, with a few Jews who were early adopters, and many, many more non-Jews who got really rich off it, like Hugh Heffner and Larry Flynt.
If you dare say another industry, such as OPEC, was ran by Muslims, you’d be labeled Islamaphobic. Similarly, Jeffrey Epstein resulted in endless conspiracies of Jews having a secret cabal, but PDiddy did not result in claims of an African American cabal. The double standards are crystla clear.
Sadly, Jews are told to be accountable for a few people who are ethnically Jewish, even if they throw away our religion and tradition. No other group is treated this way. In fact, we are told to reject generalizing and bigotry when a criminal has any other label.
Since the utopias people fantasize over can not actually emerge, even if Jews disappeared tomorrow, it’s easy to predict another group getting scapegoatted next. Vegans insisting that [[Israel]] is the source of meat eating would move onto the Dutch or Muslims. Aryans ranting about subversion would move onto the Mexicans and trans. The porn-obssessed would move onto blaming another group for a diverse industry. A single scapegoat can not handle their issues.
