Not every conspiracy theorist is an antisemite...
...but pretty much every antisemite is a conspiracy theorist.
More evidence, as if any were needed, that elaborate conspiracy theories are a gateway drug to a belief that teh Jooooos secretly control everything:
A new Morning Consult survey tracking right-wing authoritarian beliefs shows that while not all believers of the conspiracy theory that helped spur the insurrection are antisemites, a large majority of adherents to a century-old antisemitic hoax are also believers of QAnon. And though efforts to deplatform the conspiracy group have sent QAnon underground, data shows that believers’ views on the issues that led to the insurrection track closely with those of self-identified U.S. conservatives.
U.S. adults in the April 26-27 survey were asked questions regarding two notable conspiracy theories: QAnon — described as a belief that the world is run by a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles made up of left-wing politicians, religious figures and Hollywood elites — and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a hoax document first published in the early 1900s that alleges a Jewish plot to take over major institutions in an effort at world domination.
Seventy-eight percent of U.S. respondents who agreed with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion also agreed with QAnon, while 49 percent of QAnon adherents agreed with the century-old antisemitic slur, compared to 32 percent of right-leaning adults and just 11 percent of left-leaning adults.
“Although we wouldn’t say initially that QAnon had antisemitic tropes, very quickly it became apparent that there was a strain within QAnon belief that articulated some of these very clearly antisemitic tropes,” said Joanna Mendelson, associate director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. More specifically, QAnon adherents “identify Jewish control of the media, the banks and the government as being behind the Deep State, helping to manipulate the levers of society and undermine trust.”
You don’t say…
Long before QAnon became a thing, it was 9/11 conspiracy theories that shepherded people toward Jew-hatred. Look who just happened to slither her way onto Twitter just this week:
McKinney gained some notoriety as a Democratic Congresswoman from Georgia (what is it with Congresswomen from Georgia and Jewish conspiracies?) who was just asking questions about the 9/11 attacks in the early 2000s. After losing her seat, she went all-in on Jew-hatred and also became the Green Party nominee for President. (What is it with Green Parties playing footsie with antisemitism?)
It’s a good reminder that conspiricism and antisemitism aren’t limited to just one side of the political aisle. But at least the Democrats primaryed McKinney out of a job. As for the GOP of 2021, well…
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) is holding a fundraiser with Nick Fuentes, an online commentator who has achieved a following as an open anti-Semite, Holocaust denier, and white supremacist.
A flyer posted to a Telegram account linked to Fuentes promoted a July fundraiser with the ardently pro-Trump congressman.
Fuentes is a virulent anti-Semite who has denied the Holocaust, defended racial segregation and called for the killing of “globalists at CNN”. He also spoke at the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
Speaking of antisemitism, the new President of Iran (whose “ban everyone from running against me” platform appears to have paid off) is quite a guy:
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a 19th century forgery by Russian intelligence services, was designed to scapegoat Jews for the empire's hardships. It has since fueled more than a century of hate. The Protocols has catalyzed antisemitic harassment, assaults and pogroms, and helped lay the groundwork for the Holocaust. For over a century, the Anti-Defamation League and other experts have warned that The Protocols are nothing but venomous lies and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
And Iran's President-Elect, Ebrahim Raisi, played a hands-on role in promoting The Protocols as part of a sustained campaign to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish people.
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In 2016, Raisi was appointed by Iran's supreme leader to direct the Astan Quds Razavi Foundation, in which capacity he oversaw the production of a 50-episode documentary film promoting The Protocols. The documentary aired on Iranian TV and was distributed to pilgrims at a major religious shrine under his control, the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad, Iran, the resting place of the eighth Shi'ite Imam. The Shrine is a major religious site visited by 20 million pilgrims a year pre-pandemic, according to Iranian records filed with UNESCO.
While the Foundation had previously published and promoted hardcopy editions of The Protocols and continued to do so during his tenure, under Raisi, it also exploited new media to amplify the spread of the antisemitic Protocols. About a year after Raisi assumed control, the Foundation announced plans for the documentary about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
In 2018, the film, titled "the Devil's Plan," was released and the Foundation held a press conference in one of the Shrine's historic courtyards. The film's director told journalists that Jews, "the leaders of this front of untruth," have in the Protocols "codified from past centuries the most complete plan for their demonic world domination" and that the film explains the need for their "elimination." He decried "the hands of the party of Satan, namely, global Zionism" and said the film would be broadcast on both the Foundation's television network and on public TV stations.
Raisi is not just a hatemonger and a mass murderer, he’s a ripoff artist. Egyptian TV made a series based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in 2002.
If you’re going to promote genocidal antisemitism, at least do something original like Jewish space lasers or something.
“Gotta hear both sides” department: