In recent years, Elon Musk has executed a hostile takeover of Twitter, spread conspiracy theories and allied with high-profile conservatives. Is Musk a misguided superhero, or was he secretly a supervillain all along?
In January, the Bucharest city council voted down a motion calling for the removal of a bust of a Nazi collaborator.
A look back at the Bulgarian Jewish community in the wake of Sofia’s annual neo-Nazi march getting cancelled in 2023.
What explains the rise in antisemitic violence in the past 20 years in France, and what can the government do about it?
As the world came to grips with the seriousness of the pandemic last spring, conspiracies arose linking COVID-19 and anti-Semitism.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency journalist Sam Sokol traded WhatsApp messages with President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, about one of the ex-mayor’s favorite targets—the Jewish billionaire George Soros.
In September, the Hungarian publication Népszava reported that the sole institution in Hungary that is dedicated to preserving the record of the Hungarian Holocaust, the Páva Street Holocaust Memorial Center, may be coerced to collaborate with three other Hungarian research institutes. These three institutes, which are controlled by the government, have engaged in Holocaust distortion and/or employed anti-Semites.
There are two important, but seemingly contradictory, takeaways from this laundry list of anti-Semitic incidents from May of 2020. First, we are experiencing a resurgence of extreme right anti-Semitic rhetoric in the United States. Second, don’t let anyone tell you that the danger from anti-Semitism in the United States (or most other countries) comes largely from the racist, xenophobic or white supremacist right. This past month the right-wing version of anti-Semitism was most ubiquitous. Next month it may very well be another manifestation of anti-Semitism that dominates the headlines. This disease shapeshifts over time and place, maximizing the damage it can inflict.
April was the month when the global anti-Semitism news became largely associated with conspiracy theories that linked the Jewish people to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
