Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary who came to power in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He was one of the most influential people in China at the time of his rise to power, and many of his closest advisors were Jewish. In fact, as many as 85% to 90% of the foreigners helping the Chinese during the communist takeover were Jews.
00:01:37.600The revolutionary tells the story of southern-born Sidney Rittenberg, who was born in Charleston, South Carolina, where we lived for a while, by the way.
00:01:45.640One of the first synagogues were set up there on the American or North American continent.
00:01:52.240Thank you, Founding Fathers, for having this religious freedom bullshit.
00:01:58.100And then, of course, the Scottish Rite, like right next door, essentially, right?
00:02:02.040The only American that has ever been admitted to the Chinese Communist Party, this Sidney Rittenberg, plenty of others, though, we'll get to those.
00:02:10.440The Mandarin-speaking Rittenberg, why did he learn that?
00:02:14.980Who was initially sent to China by the U.S. Army at the time of Japan's surrender at the end of World War II,
00:02:19.920became an influential advisor to Mao and to the first premier of the People's Republic of China, Zhao Enlai.
00:02:27.360His pivotal role at the broadcast authority explaining the Communist Chinese point of view to America earned him a higher salary than Chairman Mao himself.
00:07:57.680A professor charged in a Senate document released today.
00:08:01.760This is obviously back in 1965, as you can see there, that the late Harry Dexter White, which was behind, basically, was a communist subversion in America at that time.
00:08:11.620Remember the whole overhaul of the economic system?
00:08:13.960He was accused by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and others of being a Soviet spy, deliberately tried to wreck China's monetary system during World War II.
00:08:23.060A lot of these people have been trying to get to China for a long time.
00:08:26.260And, of course, eventually they were successful, which takes us up, you know, if you will, to the modern day.
00:08:30.920And just talking about the relationship with Israel, Belt and Road Initiative, what's going on with the BRICS countries, who really controls things over there.
00:08:40.280China and Israel are using technology to work together on all kinds of things.
00:08:52.420So when people criticize, you know, the Chai comms or whatever, well, you've got to understand who initiated this project and who oversees it to a large extent as well.
00:09:00.860Rikori Votinsky, a Bolshevik Comintern official, he was sent to China in 1920 as a senior advisor to contact the top prominent Chinese communists.
00:09:10.920The process of forming the Communist Party can mostly be attributed to his influence.
00:10:17.040Like, our ancestor is Jewish, so I have to be here.
00:10:23.400When I was very little, like when I was in the childhood, my parents and, how to say, people around me always called me Jewish girl.
00:10:34.360So, at that time, I don't know, like, exactly what means Jewish, but as time went by, I know, so I really, I know I have to come because Jewish, Israel is a land of Jewish, so.
00:10:49.180It's a long trip, it's tired, but in our hearts, we are exciting.
00:11:03.220When I was a little, little girl, my father and grandfather told me, we are Jews, we need to come back to Israel.
00:11:13.500And so, you might have heard about some of those guys, like Rittenberg or Rosenfeld or anything like that, but have you heard about this one that surfaced here the other day?
00:11:22.500Ben Shapiro's ancestor, Sidney Shapiro, was one of the original Bolsheviks who invaded China and held a position under Mao.
00:11:34.880Sidney Shapiro, American author, was a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Council, or the political advisory body in communist China.
00:11:44.380Now, the big question is that, is that, is that his wife there?