Is Robert Sepehr Jewish?
Robert Sepehr is someone whom I have never paid much if any attention to but apparently, he’s been ‘influencing’ people on the radical right for some years now since at least 2015/2016. So much so that I’ve had multiple – read a few dozen over the course of the last 2-3 months – requests on X to state what I think about Sepehr.
Originally, I didn’t have an opinion – since as stated he was not even on my radar – but I very quickly ascertained that Sepehr was promoting weird claims in his videos (for example about aliens) and also that there was substantial evidence that he is a jew.
In this article I intend to discuss two things:
Firstly, the evidence that Sepehr is jewish.
Secondly, what the evidence suggests Sepehr is up to.
To be begin the principal evidence for Sepehr being a jew has been gathered by Harry Shukman at ‘Scout News’ (1) and also published in more concise form in ‘The Jewish Chronicle’. (2) Now since I am careful, I have checked Shukman’s research and also done some of my own in order to confirm what is true as well as what is not.
The first piece of evidence we have that Sepehr is jewish is who his father is: Ben-Hur Sepehr.
Ben-Hur was a jew who fled Iran sometime in 1979 to the early 1980s and emigrated to California to re-start his career in Hollywood. You see Sepehr was the Shah of Iran’s personal filmmaker having trained in Sweden and obviously was a target for the newly installed Islamic Republic as both a jew and a member of the Shah of Iran’s inner circle. (3) Ben-Hur was also a great fan of jewish-funded and supported US ‘Civil Rights Activist’ Martin Luther King (4) and regarded it as his mission in life to combat the ‘worldwide misrepresentation of the jews’. (5)
But you might say that Sepehr’s father might have been a ‘convert to Judaism’ or just ‘claimed to be jewish’ and that is true he might have been, but we have zero evidence for that line of argument and significant evidence against it in the fact that no one who knew him seems aware that Ben-Hur was a ‘convert’ or merely ‘claimed to be jewish’.
The other possibility is that Sepehr might not have been Ben-Hur’s biological son and might have been adopted or a stepson.
‘The Jewish Chronicle’ seems to have also been aware of these two possibilities and did its journalistic due diligence and contacted Sepehr’s family – presumably on Ben-Hur’s side based on the wording used – to check and they confirmed that Sepehr was indeed Ben-Hur’s (biological) son and that Ben-Hur was a jew.
To wit:
‘The JC spoke to a relative who confirmed that Robert was Ben-Hur’s son, adding that Ben-Hur was Jewish, but Robert’s mother is not.’ (6)
This in itself makes a lot of sense of Sepehr’s ‘defence’ against the claims where-in he claims his ‘grandfather was a high-ranking SS officer’ which implies pure Aryan ancestry back to at least 1750. (7)
He also posted a commercial ancestry test results (it looks like 23andMe, which is also run by jews incidentally) (8) which demonstrated he is indeed half-Iranian and had ‘no jewish ancestry’ to try and buttress his desperate claims that he isn’t in fact jewish.
I reproduce Sepehr’s ancestry chart below:
The yellow bit is obviously from Iran and fits perfectly with Sepehr’s relative’s assertion that Sepehr’s father Ben-Hur was a jew from Iran while his mother was non-jewish. It also fits with the implication in Sepehr’s video that his mother is/was German.
This is honest enough but then we get on to Sepehr’s claim that he is not jewish which is specifically that he isn’t an Ashkenazi jew and thus ‘not jewish’. As Shukman caught – as anyone who has studied the jewish question in any detail should have similarly done – this is notable more for what it leaves out than what it positively affirms. (9)
No one has stated to my knowledge that Sepehr is an Ashkenazi jew but you see jewry isn’t just Ashkenazi but rather Ashkenazim are relative latecomers with the two great arms of jewry prior to the 1900s being the Sephardim (from the Iberian peninsula) and the Mizrahim (from the Middle East/North Africa/Iran).
Sepehr in essence tried to lie by omission in his defence in that he didn’t tell a lie: he isn’t an Ashkenazi jew, but then he wouldn’t likely be a jew from Iran if he was a member of the Ashkenazim. Instead, he is almost certainly a Mizrahi jew and descended from the jews of Babylonia – the origins of the famous Babylonian Talmud incidentally – via his father Ben-Hur Sepehr.
Mizrahi jews are just as much a problem historically as the Ashkenazi jews are today notoriously running the Ottoman Empire’s financial system as well as its customs system well into the late nineteenth century. (10) When we talk about the ‘Jews of Islam’ we aren’t talking about the Ashkenazi nor generally the Sephardim but rather the Mizrahim.
We can already see Sepehr’s dishonesty, but perhaps a far more pointed example of it is in his claim that he is descended from a ‘high-ranking SS officer’ but yet never tells us which one. The reason for this is pretty obvious in that he almost certainly isn’t and if he told us who it allegedly was then it wouldn’t be hard to track down and prove or disprove it with a bit of research.
It’d be easy to write off Sepehr’s ‘high-ranking SS officer’ claim as simply a desperate ploy to get his audience off his back about his jewishness, but you see it has a far more obvious pedigree which Shukman inexplicably missed.
This is in the award-winning ‘Holocaust’ film that Sepehr’s father Ben-Hur made in 2010 called ‘The Desperate’ in which a ‘Nazi General’s son’ is treated by a jewish doctor who is the only person who can treat and potentially cure his son. Sepehr was - and is - listed as an ‘Associate Producer’ on ‘The Desperate’ (11) and also attended the party to celebrate his father’s awards for this film in 2010/2011. (12)
Now a ‘Nazi General’s son’ is commonly conceived of a high-ranking member of the SS’ son and what did Sepehr style himself?
He said his ‘grandfather was a high-ranking SS officer’ and since his father couldn’t have been in the SS as he was simply too young, an Iranian and a Mizrahi jew to boot; he has transposed the storyline from ‘The Desperate’ – which remember he was an ‘Associate Producer’ of – onto his own life but (presumably) made it his maternal grandfather not his father.
That isn’t a coincidence in my book but rather a deliberate and quite calculated lie on Sepehr’s part. Hence why he also doesn’t identify who the ‘high-ranking SS officer’ was because that would be traceable and thus disprovable, but it sounds like a great claim to feed to those desperately want to believe Sepehr isn’t jewish.
Moving on we can further see that Sepehr clearly understood himself to be jewish way before he integrated the jewish angle into his writing and videos as an angle to get traction, views and donations from the fact that his production company ‘Atlantean Gardens’ was incorporated by Sepehr as a jewish not-for-profit/charitable tax exempt organization in 2014/2015:
Now some might try and argue this was all a ‘clever ploy’ on Sepehr’s part but this simply doesn’t stack up.
Why?
Well firstly as we’ve already seen his father Ben-Hur was jewish so it would make sense for Sepehr to try and get tax exempt status via being a jewish religious organization.
Secondly there is no reason for Sepehr to claim that ‘Atlantean Gardens’ was a jewish organization if it were not. After all he could have argued that he was promoting ‘alternative spirituality’ for example, but he didn’t and actively chose to self-identify ‘Atlantean Gardens’ as a jewish organization.
What this then means is that Sepehr didn’t start out opposed to jews – he was after all half-jewish via his father – and he almost certainly still isn’t, but rather what Sepehr is doing is the same shtick that other jews have historically done. Where they have sought to harness anti-jewish sentiment for profit, build a devoted fanbase then make a split in the anti-jewish community by introducing the identity of the ‘good jews’ versus the ‘bad jews’ (in his case the classic good Sephardim/Mizrahim versus the evil Ashkenazim) and then stoke the controversy. (13)
All while making a substantial profit of course.
That Sepehr’s motives are primarily financial as well as philo-Semitic is also indicated by Sepehr’s own history with producing ‘ancient aliens’ and ‘alien takeover’ style material as early as 2003 which got substantial traction.
To quote Shukman:
‘Before his work on Jews, Sepehr’s first foray into the world of conspiracy theories began more innocently. In 2003, he made a feature length film called Planet X, about aliens living on Niburu, a planet within our solar system that NASA is said to have covered up. Ben-Hur’s official director website promoted the movie.
Sepehr, in his film, said he spent “eight years researching and personally documenting information regarding Planet X”. He predicted that by 2012, Nibiru would pass our planet, causing environmental havoc when its gravitational pull would cause Earth to temporarily cease rotating on its axis.
The film made Sepehr’s name in conspiracy theory circles, and he has appeared on paranormal radio shows and obscure TV channels to discuss his theory that aliens visited our planet thousands of years ago and modified our DNA. He continues to broadcast esoteric videos about extraterrestrials and interdimensional beings, finding his way into the Daily Star newspaper and Durham magazine.’ (14)
Clearly by 2013 Sepehr’s predictions hadn’t come true and his credibility as in the paranormal and ufology communities was in the toilet so by 2014/2015, he’d founded a new production company called ‘Atlantean Gardens’ to promote his next act which turned out to be trying to sell himself as an ‘expert’ to the rapidly growing radical right in 2015.
He did this in classic ‘jewish traitor’ style by pandering to the prejudices and assumptions of a substantial segment of the radical right by posing as an ‘expert’ and an ‘anthropologist’ just like he had done in his film ‘Planet X’ twelve years earlier, but didn’t disclose that he was himself jewish instead he railed against the Ashkenazim and added in a potpourri of mysticism, international bankers and religion into the mix with the occasional nods to the ‘Great Replacement’ to ensure that his viewers believed he was one of them.
However, when you have a very public past, an unusual surname and a famous father like Sepehr; it was all going to come crashing down in the end when Shukman did the heavy lifting and joined the dots together in 2022.
By then Sepehr’s father had died (in 2021) and Sepehr found ‘refuge’ in his ‘work’ (15) which is also reflected in the ‘ProPublica’ data on ‘Atlantean Gardens’: (16)
For 2022:
For 2021:
For 2020:
There are four things to notice from the ‘ProPublica’ information.
1) Ben-Hur Sepehr (listed as Ben Hur Shokuisepehr) – Sepehr’s jewish film-maker father – was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of ‘Atlantean Gardens’ till his death in 2021 and probably was from its incorporation in 2014/2015, which again points to why Sepehr listed ‘Atlantean Gardens’ as a jewish not-for-profit/charitable/tax-exempt organization and not something else.
2) Two of Sepehr’s officers (Behnaz Masrour [Treasurer] and Ojen Masrour [Office(r?)]) are very obvious not even white being either Iranian, Kurdish or at an outside possibility Armenian based upon their names. Apparently, there were no white people Sepehr trusted to fulfil these roles.
3) Barbara Vohla – the surname is Belarussian/Russian – took over from Sepehr’s father Ben-Hur as CFO upon the latter’s death in 2021.
4) Someone called ‘Yered Moriah’ is listed throughout 2020 to 2022 as the ‘Chairperson’. Now the name ‘Yered Moriah’ strongly suggests the individual concerned is a jew since ‘Moriah’ is a jewish surname derived from Hebrew and Mount Moriah and ‘Yered’ is also a jewish first name being the Hebrew form of ‘Jered’.
So, in summary then ‘Atlantean Gardens’ aside from Sepehr himself is a company whose CFO – until 2021/2022 – was jewish, whose presumably long-time ‘Chairperson’ is jewish and who produces content about the ‘Great Replacement’ but whose directors/officers are majority non-white and until recently all the leaders of which were jewish and then that only changed because the jewish CFO died.
But why would jews make an explicitly jewish not-for-profit/charitable/tax-exempt organization that makes content attacking the Ashkenazim?
Well simply put… money.
Sepehr was earning at least $3,000 a month from Patreon alone in 2022 (17) and going by ‘ProPublica’ he had just over $390k in the bank in 2022 most of which he’d earned in 2021 and 2022. (18)
He’d found a niche which paid well and his followers didn’t ask too many inconvenient questions about his claims and naturally he wanted to keep his gullible followers giving him their hard-earned money so he could tell them all about how evil the Rothschild family were – they are Ashkenazi incidentally – while they kept money flowing his bank account as a Mizrahi jew in living a plush life in Los Angeles.
As the jews say: there is no business quite so profitable as Shoah business.
So not only is Sepehr a jew but he is jew making money telling from people who understand that the jews are a threat that only the Ashkenazi jews are the enemy (either by direct statement or implication).
Don’t be fooled by friends: Sepehr is a jewish wannabe Alex Jones and most certainly not your friend.
References
(1) https://scoutnews.substack.com/p/he-was-the-far-rights-favourite-author
(2) https://www.thejc.com/news/world/american-far-right-conspiracy-theorist-ostracised-by-followers-after-they-found-out-he-was-jewish-jy4k8hlg
(3) Karmel Melamed, ‘Trailblazer’, Tribe, February 2012, pp. 16-17; https://iffawards.com/judges/
(4) https://iffawards.com/judges/
(5) Melamed, Op. Cit., pp. 16-17 also https://scoutnews.substack.com/p/he-was-the-far-rights-favourite-author
(6) https://www.thejc.com/news/world/american-far-right-conspiracy-theorist-ostracised-by-followers-after-they-found-out-he-was-jewish-jy4k8hlg
(7) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBzRqbnoYfU&t=661s
(8) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/jewish-influence-in-the-personal
(9) https://scoutnews.substack.com/p/he-was-the-far-rights-favourite-author; https://www.thejc.com/news/world/american-far-right-conspiracy-theorist-ostracised-by-followers-after-they-found-out-he-was-jewish-jy4k8hlg
(10) For a brief summary of this issue see Jane Hathaway, 2008, 'The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1800', 1st Edition, Pearson Education: New York, pp. 193-195
(11) https://scoutnews.substack.com/p/he-was-the-far-rights-favourite-author
(12) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGXqSackO4k&t=110s
(13) Shukman alludes to the same thing in https://scoutnews.substack.com/p/he-was-the-far-rights-favourite-author and https://www.thejc.com/news/world/american-far-right-conspiracy-theorist-ostracised-by-followers-after-they-found-out-he-was-jewish-jy4k8hlg
(14) https://scoutnews.substack.com/p/he-was-the-far-rights-favourite-author
(15) https://www.thejc.com/news/world/american-far-right-conspiracy-theorist-ostracised-by-followers-after-they-found-out-he-was-jewish-jy4k8hlg
(16) Taken from: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/465098741
(17) https://www.thejc.com/news/world/american-far-right-conspiracy-theorist-ostracised-by-followers-after-they-found-out-he-was-jewish-jy4k8hlg
(18) https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/465098741