The Sordid Family History of John Forbes Kerry

Editor's note: With events happening faster than Americans can keep up with concerning the Trump administration with the Roman Caesar signing one edict (EO) after another, John Kerry several months ago at a WEF conference was complaining about "how difficult it was to govern." Oh really, you don't say? What an irony: Forbes Breaking News provides us with coverage of congressional hearings with Matt Taibbi referring to John Forbes Kerry. What a sordid history as John Kerry's bio is all cover to hide his Brahmin past. Kerry inherited a substantial $28 million in assets (including holdings exceeding $220 million in various investment sectors as of 2023), holds dominion over more than 8,000 acres of land and can boast about an impressive array of mansions and villas across the United States. Kerry is simply a spokesperson for whatever his oligarch overlords task him with including being a "climate tsar".

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The Sordid Family History of John Forbes Kerry

August 19, 2024 | By Russ Winter

I'm not generally a big believer in condemning people for the sins of their forefathers or for their family background, provided it's not too outlandish. However, when it comes to world leaders born of wealth or privilege, it's worthwhile to pause and evaluate their history. Doing so provides insight into their character, culture and connections, which in turn speaks to their ability to lead and their loyalties.

When you stumble across a sordid history of a leader whose family fortune was made in the China opium trade and who has reinvented their ethnic backstory for the purpose of political favor, then it's time to throw a red flag and cry foul — and it's time to throw a flag on John F. Kerry.

John Forbes Kerry throughout his political career portrayed himself as the son of a Boston Brahmin mother and a father, who was a simple Irish Catholic man on the street. This image served him well in Massachusetts politics.

Where the story gets interesting is with Kerry's grandparents — more specifically, his Brahmin mother's side, the Forbes family. The history of his maternal great grandfather, Francis Forbes, is largely scrubbed and highly disingenuous. For example, he's often cited as a "China merchant," when in actuality he was an opium dealer operating in China. This was the fountainhead of Forbes' wealth. We have a follow-up article on the opium trade, but at one point 30 million Chinese were addicted and the country was a wreck.

The history of Francis Blackwell Forbes (1839–1908), as cited on Wikipedia, states he was an American botanist with "expertise in Chinese seed-producing plants," who also worked as a merchant and opium trader in Asia. Apart from a two-year stay in Europe in 1875-76, Forbes lived in China from 1857 to 1882. The "Career and Honors" section of his biography states that this criminal received awards for his lifelong work with "poppies." What a farce.

So Kerry enjoyed certain status and entry into Yale because his father, Richard Kerry, married well. Or maybe, as you will see, it was the other way around. Next let’s look at Kerry's paternal side. His paternal grandfather was born Fritz Kohn (1873-1921), the son of a Jewish brewmeister in Bennisch, Moravia (near Brno) , which is in the present-day Czech Republic.

Kerry's paternal grandmother, née Ida Loew, hailed from a very well-known and large Jewish family in Brno, Moravia. The Loew clan are descendants of the famous Kabbalist and Talmudist Rabbi Judah Loew (aka Loewe) (1518-1609), the Maharal of Prague and creator of the Golem. History tells that Rabbi Loew, using sorcerer-like magic, created the monstrous and gigantic Golem from the muddy banks of Prague’s river as a boogeyman to intimidate and scare the heck out of the city's gentiles. The rabbi's hoax worked, and this made Loew a highly sought after mystic and black magician. A fascinating figure indeed.

It depicts an octopus draped from his neck and a naked woman clinging to his side. The resemblance to John Kerry is stark. It was erected in 1910 by the powerful Jewish community at the time. During the occupation, the Nazis thought the hideous spectacle spoke for itself and just left the statue untouched. A statue of Loew's Golem creation stands nearby.

Now, maybe to some, Kerry's history is just a long string of random connections. But in my eyes, having both Judah Loew and Francis Forbes in your bloodline is more than mere a curiosity. For a guy who is as obviously intelligent, as John Forbes Kerry is, it is unfathomable that his family tree would be a mystery to him.

In 2003, as Kerry's presidential campaign sought big contributors and the opposition dug for dirt, genealogists turned up these surprising family factoids. Kerry had expressed surprise that his Bostonian "Irish jig" was up and then dismissed the findings as "obscure ancestry." He did fess up to having an ancestor "from Austria" but back in the depths of history. In reality his paternal grandparents were "from Austria" or more exactly Moravia. Sorry, John, being a half Jewish relative of one of the most famous rabbis in history is not that obscure either.

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This is what Matt Taibbi was referring to in the Forbes Breaking News clip John Kerry discussing free speech and "how hard it is to govern" with Kerry suggesting "the 1st Amendment stands as a major block":

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