In July 2025, John Cusack shared a conspiracy-style graphic on Bluesky.
The image visually connected:
- Antony Blinken;
- Samuel Pisar;
- Robert Maxwell;
- Ghislaine Maxwell;
- Jeffrey Epstein.
Stars of David appeared throughout the network. Several of the people pictured were presented as connected to Mossad. Established reporting cited in coverage of the controversy did not substantiate those intelligence claims.
Deadline, NME and Algemeiner all described the same visual: a diagram that treated family relationships and professional associations as a hidden structure, then stamped that structure with Jewish symbols and intelligence labels. The post was removed within hours. Screenshots remained.
The Network
The graphic presented family relationships, professional relationships and personal associations as parts of a hidden network. Jewish identity was visually emphasized through repeated Stars of David. The network was then connected to secret-intelligence claims involving Mossad.
The composition resembled a conspiracy board: faces; relationships; Jewish symbols; secret agencies; and hidden connections.
Coverage reconstructed the implied chain this way: Antony Blinken, the Jewish former U.S. secretary of state, was linked to his stepfather, Samuel Pisar; Pisar was tied to Robert Maxwell; Maxwell was labeled a Mossad agent; Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were then presented as Mossad-connected as well. The argument of the image was not a documented intelligence finding. It was a picture of Jewish adjacency treated as proof.
The Antisemitic Visual Language
Historic antisemitic conspiracy theories frequently present Jews as participants in secret networks that manipulate governments, financial institutions, media organizations or world events from behind the scenes.
The 2025 graphic used several recognizable parts of that visual vocabulary:
- Jewish symbols
- Secret relationships
- Political power
- Intelligence agencies
- A hidden network
Deadline noted that the theory of Epstein and Maxwell as Mossad agents has circulated in far-right spaces, including among figures such as Mark Collett. NME reported that Mike Masnick, a Bluesky board member, called the post antisemitic and posted a screengrab of Cusack “doubling down.”
The Mossad Claim
The graphic presented Jeffrey Epstein and members of the Maxwell family as connected to Mossad. The reporting surrounding Cusack’s post described these claims as unsupported. The conspiracy itself nevertheless formed a central part of the visual message Cusack shared.
After the image came down, coverage quoted Cusack writing that “it’s not antisemitic to be critical of a nation state,” while reiterating a belief that Epstein was a Mossad operation. Criticism of a state and a Star-of-David network diagram are not the same act. The archive records both the claim and the distinction.
The Post Disappears
The graphic was later removed from Cusack’s Bluesky account. Screenshots continued circulating and the post generated substantial online backlash. The removal occurred after the image had already been widely documented. It is not clear from contemporaneous reporting whether Cusack deleted the post himself or whether moderation intervened.
Deletion is not the same as a record. The reason this site exists is that deleted posts still happened.
Six Years After “Follow the Money”
The 2025 image immediately invited comparison with Cusack’s 2019 post.
2019
- Star of David
- Money
- Hidden control
- A white-supremacist quotation
2025
- Stars of David
- Secret intelligence
- Hidden connections
- A conspiracy network
Different graphic. Recurring visual language.