Clickbait, Conspiracies, and a Fake Photo: The Times’ Epstein–Mossad Debacle

Honest Reporting ^ | 9/2/26

[Eleutheria5]

The release of millions of documents from the U.S. State Department’s Jeffrey Epstein files has resulted in scandals and fallout in multiple capitals as the great and the good of politics and high society struggle to justify their relationships with the notorious pedophile. Unfortunately, it has also triggered a massive surge in online antisemitism. At its most extreme, we’ve seen recycled classic antisemitic tropes involving child abuse conspiracies peddled by individuals like Candace Owens.

But antisemitism adapts to changing times, and today, the trope of Jewish domination of global media, banking and governments is thinly disguised as attributed to Zionists or Israel. Its latest iteration is the claim that Epstein was working for the Mossad intelligence agency for nefarious purposes. While Epstein’s relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is no secret, the unverified claim of a Mossad link had been confined to antisemites and Israel haters.

Until The Times of London put it into the mainstream.

Link to Honest Reporting X post.

Bad enough that The Times decided to publish this blatant clickbait, which was speculative at best. But the morning after, and the supposedly respectable media outlet should be feeling mortified.

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KEYWORDS: bibi; epstein; fake; timesoflondon

[Eleutheria5]

I don't know what to believe. No fan of Bibi. He should not be PM once the wars are over and the dust settles. But for the war, he should resign immediately, but not over whether he was a customer of Epstein. Rather, because, while he is eloquent and has experience, he's a lousy PM. It's owing to him and Blowhard Gvir, that October 7 even happened. No conspiracy. Just incompetence. He belongs making his orations in front of the UN, so they can ignore him as they do all the other eloquent speakers. Abba Eban was eloquent, too. The UN was still the UN. But Bibi's speeches are great. We need someone who can do that.