The National Tragedy of September 18th, 2001

In OTL, one of the conspiracy theories about 9/11 is that many Jews who worked at WTC stayed home that day on some secret advice. Knowing that sometimes strange things have a little-known plausible explanation, I thought of the fact that there are two Jewish holidays around that time of year. My research indicates that the 11th wasn't one of them in 2001. Rosh Hashana was on the 18th and Yom Kippur was on the 27th. Considering that RH is meant to be a happy day and YK more somber....

WI Al Queda attacked the WTC on the 18th instead of the 11th? A significant number of Jews would have taken the day off, and the rumour that Jews were behind 9/18 would have been harder to dispel than the equivalent OTL. Perhaps it could have been a half-baked Al Queda plot to stir up anti-Semitism in the US to end American support for Israel? ITTL, Al Queda denies responsibility, claiming if they did it they would have done it on a day when as many Jewish "swine" were there to be killed....

How does this affect the investigation and cultural shift in the US afterwards? The political/military response?
 
I don't think too much changes.

Al-Qaeda isn't exactly a reliable source. They can deny, but the majority of people won't believe them.

The conspiracy theorists will have more grist, and maybe more people believe them, but they aren't anything close to a majority or even a plurality of opinion.

And Rosie O'Donnell will still believe fire can't melt steel.
 
In OTL, one of the conspiracy theories about 9/11 is that many Jews who worked at WTC stayed home that day on some secret advice. Knowing that sometimes strange things have a little-known plausible explanation, I thought of the fact that there are two Jewish holidays around that time of year. My research indicates that the 11th wasn't one of them in 2001. Rosh Hashana was on the 18th and Yom Kippur was on the 27th. Considering that RH is meant to be a happy day and YK more somber....

WI Al Queda attacked the WTC on the 18th instead of the 11th? A significant number of Jews would have taken the day off, and the rumour that Jews were behind 9/18 would have been harder to dispel than the equivalent OTL. Perhaps it could have been a half-baked Al Queda plot to stir up anti-Semitism in the US to end American support for Israel? ITTL, Al Queda denies responsibility, claiming if they did it they would have done it on a day when as many Jewish "swine" were there to be killed....

How does this affect the investigation and cultural shift in the US afterwards? The political/military response?

I detest those scumbags who continue to insist that OTL's 9/11 was somehow a 'Jewish' conspiracy...........in fact, I despise them.

With that said, Twin City Lines, the anti-Semites would be a bit harder to debunk because they'll be able to spit many more volumes of crap from their mouths which will fool even more gullible folks.
 

Archibald

Banned
Yeah, plenties of morons. Another pretends that a missile heat the pentagone, not an aircraft, since "the hole is much smaller than the aircraft usual span"

Of course, and when one throw a tomato at a concrete wall, the tomato leaves a round, perfect hole :rolleyes: similar to Wile E. Coyote stuck into the cliff :D:D:D
 
I'm not a 9/11 conspiracy theorist but I have a crush on one. Fortunately, the version she believes in has nothing to do with the Jews being behind it.
 
It remains hard to blame Jews for a conspiracy of this nature seeing as all the hijackers were Muslim. No matter what happens that point will still stand...
 
It remains hard to blame Jews for a conspiracy of this nature seeing as all the hijackers were Muslim. No matter what happens that point will still stand...

"Ah, but precisely, all the hijackers are Muslim, goes to show that it is a conspiracy. Come on, all of them? That's the proof, somebody framed them, and since the Muslims and the Jews hate each other, there are you culprits!"

With conspirationnists, the more compelling the facts, the more "proof" it is that they were tampered with, and the bigger the extent of the conspiracy. If I run naked in the rain and wake up with a bad cold the next morning, it's probably because the government secretly tested a bio-weapon.
 
AFAIK, OTL didn't Al-Qaeda deny responsibility for the attack immediately afterward? So no real change in the larger scale of things.
 
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