A quick glance at Bollyn’s website is about all it takes to determine that he traffics in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and white supremacist ideologies. Bollyn was among the first people to promote anti-Semitic conspiracy theories linking the 2001 terrorist attacks with Jews and Israel in the months after the 9/11. On his website, Bollyn complains of having his research stolen and being ousted from his position at the American Free Press, a newspaper known for promoting such anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
The kind of anti-Semitism promoted by the ideology of people like Bollyn sees Israel as the “Jew of the world,” controlling media and events. This anti-Semitism is real, and it is dangerous.
Bollyn’s website reflects a range of twisted theories, including well-worn anti-Semitic tropes – Jews control the media and the government, including all U.S. foreign policy – and a deep well of Holocaust denial. Bollyn is a former writer for the anti-Semitic conspiracy-oriented newspaper American Free Press and its predecessor, The Spotlight. Both were published by the late anti-Semite and Holocaust denier Willis Carto.
The American Free Press is a weekly newspaper published in the United States.
The newspaper's direct ancestor was the publication The Spotlight, which ceased publication in 2001 when its parent organization, Liberty Lobby, was forced into bankruptcy. Like The Spotlight and Liberty Lobby, Willis Carto, one of America's most influential political racist theorists known for his promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial, was one of its founders.
Bollyn's work has been widely cited and copied. Unfortunately, this is also true of a number of hoaxes that Bollyn has promoted.
Bollyn wrote an article misconstruing the seismic data from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, seeding the basement bombs theory.
Bollyn wrote an article misinterpreting WTC 2's rising dust cloud as an explosion in Building 6, starting a hoax that would be exploited by In Plane Site.
Bollyn has been one of the principal proponents of the Pentagon no-jetliner theory.
Bollyn apparently originated the theory that crash of Flight 93 in PA was faked.