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5 timestamped hits 2 source readings 4 extracted notes Aliases: donmehs

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Donmeh

Followers of Sabbatai Zevi who converted publicly to Islam while preserving a hidden identity in Jiang's telling.

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Key Notes

Claim stated in the December 16, 2025 lecture.

diagnosis

Jiang claims Sabbatean/Frankist or Donmeh networks profited from the Ottoman debt regime and then financed the Young Turks when the Sultan turned toward Germany.

Timestamped Evidence

Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · Secret History #27: Empire of Evil

Transcript

"And this was the Ottoman Empire at its height in 1683. Remember, in 1666 is when Sabrelai Zevi declared himself the Messiah. And remember..."

Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · Secret History #27: Empire of Evil

Transcript

"And so from now on, a third of all revenue, tax revenue, that the Ottoman Empire generated would go directly to the French and..."

Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · Secret History #27: Empire of Evil

Transcript

"The Young Turks believed in three things. They believed in secularism, no religion. They believed in liberalism. And they believed in individualism. Just basically..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · glossary, claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...

Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith

2025-12-11, day precision · glossary, claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...

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