"Jewish Space Lasers"

Media Matters’ Eric Hananoki reported that in November of 2018, two years before she won her race to represent Georgia’s 14th Congressional District in U.S. Congress, Greene wrote a lengthy Facebook post alleging that recent devastating California wildfires where caused by “lasers” that were “beaming the suns [sic] power down to earth.”

"…oddly there are all these people who have said they saw what looked like lasers or blue beams of light causing the fires."

Greene went on to speculate that "Rothschild Inc, international investment banking firm" was somehow involved. The Rothschilds family and name have long been invoked in antisemitic conspiracy theories about a global Jewish cabal. Such antisemitic conspiracy theories are often used to deflect attention away from systems of inequality that allow power to be hoarded by a wealthy few. For climate change deniers like Greene who also deplore government regulations — a sentiment Greene expressed in her Facebook post — attributing something like a wildfire to ‘Jewish space lasers’ instead of climate change exacerbated by deregulation is a convenient move.

Greene is an adherent to the antisemitic QAnon conspiracy theory. The conspiracy originated on the right-wing extremist message board 4chan when an anonymous poster named “Q” claimed to have insider knowledge of high-level government plans. The basic premise is that Donald Trump is secretly executing an ingenious plan to take down the “deep state” by ridding the government and media of his enemies, who, according to QAnon believers, are pedophiles trafficking children for sex and for their blood, George Soros, elites in Hollywood, and a similar vague cast of characters.

Greene has also said 9/11 was an inside job, suggested school shootings were staged, and endorsed the idea that Democrats should be executed, Muslims should not hold public office, and "Zionist supremacists" are behind Muslims immigrating to Europe.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) met with Greene, who reportedly declined to apologize for her remarks. On February 3, 2021, he issued a statement saying that he condemned her behavior, but declined to instill any consequences for her actions. McCarthy, it should be noted, has his own history of promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories.