Two-time Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled, a member of a designated terrorist group, is scheduled to speak on April 23 at... The US, it is said, almost never suffers from this complex because Americans have rarely lost wars and are less prone to antisemitism. This is not strictly true. According to “How the Jews Caused the American Civil War,” a hoary antisemitic indictment still quoted on white supremacist web sites, “The War of 1812 was instigated by the Rothschilds to force the renewal of their Charter for the Bank of the United States. When this charter was vetoed by President Andrew Jackson in 1836, the Jews … set up their plan to bring about the Civil War, [to] despoil the wealthy Christian families of the South.”