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The myth that American founding father Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was anti-Semitic first emerged 87 years ago – 144 years after his passing – with the publication of a fraudulent and since then repeatedly discredited text commonly known as the “Franklin Prophecy.”
On February 3, 1934, William Dudley Pelley – the occultist head of the pro-Nazi Silver Legion of America, and publisher and editor of the fascist