
by Palestine Youth Movement
The story of Jeffrey Epstein is often told through the lens of sex trafficking, blackmail, and intelligence agencies. This version of the story is an incomplete picture. The Epstein scandal should be understood not simply as a criminal conspiracy of a network of people and agencies, but as a microcosm of the workings of global imperialism and its ruling class.
So who was Jeffrey Epstein and what is the real scandal behind his story?
Jeffrey Epstein was at once a finance capitalist, CIA and Mossad asset, and a conduit for money laundering and sex and arms trafficking. These three roles were inextricably linked to one another. His broad network featured people such as Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Ehud Barak, Bill Gates, Leon Black, Tom Barrack, Prince Andrew and many high profile figures at the top of finance, politics, real estate, philanthropy, media, academia, and the arts.
While there is no doubt that part of what connected many of these figures to Epstein was sexual perversion, the main relation that ties him to so many of these people is their membership in a global elite with shared financial interests, ventures, and criminal enterprises.
One of the main figures that epitomizes the nature of Epstein’s role as an intermediary between imperialism, Zionism, and…
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